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A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the British museum hitherto undescribed: consisting of five thousand volumes; including the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, bart., the Rev. Thomas Birch, p.p. ... / By Samuel Ayscough, clerk.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio Z6621 .B84 1782 2v. (v.1-2)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ayscough, Samuel, 1745-1804, compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manuscripts--Great Britain--Catalogs.
- Manuscripts.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 30cm (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for the compiler by J. Rivington, jun., 1782.
- Contents:
- Contents.-I.Theology. Ecclesiasticalhistory. History. Commerce. Arts. Mathematics. Astronomy. Philosophy. Chemistry.-II. Medicine. Natural history. Voyages. Grammars, &c. Literary history. Biography. Letters. Poetry. Judicial astrology. Magic. Miscellaneous. Mss. in Icelandic and Oriental languages. Index I: of the numbers of the volumes (i.e. the numbers of the manuscripts) Index II: of the names which occur in the catalogue.
- Notes:
- Commenced in April 1780 and published in 1782 by leave of the Trustees, but as a private venture of the compiler." - Dict. nat. biog.
- OCLC:
- 123190764
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