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| Call no. | MS |
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| A.3.1-46 |
HAY, Rev. William
Robert (1761-1839) Vicar of Rochdale Commonplace books : miscellaneous collection of letters, anecdotes, poetry, legal and historical information etc. dated c.1786-1839. [lacking vol.5]. |
| A.3.47 |
SMYTH, Thomas
(c.1630) of Manchester Poems collected by Thomas Smyth in King James I's time. Incl. transcripts of poems by Donne and Raleigh. (From Farmer collection and then Crossley). 49 ff. (8010) |
| A.3.48 |
ALABASTER, William
(1567-1640) Inventa bellica; Inventa adespota; Elisaeis. Material by Alabaster and George Herbert. (Corser coll.). 8ff. |
| A.3.49 |
[DADE, Rev.
William] (1740/-90) of Barmston, Yorks. Epitaphs in Yorkshire churches c.1780. (Raines coll.). 253 pp. (28046) |
| A.3.50 |
MANCHESTER
COLLEGIATE CHURCH Copy of the statute of King Charles I and extracts from the registers etc. Notes by R. Parkinson from the College registers (C19th). 45 ff. |
| A.3.51-52 |
CLOWES, Rev. John
(1743-1831), Rector of St. John's Church, Manchester Autobiography 1814-18. (Crossley collection). vol.1, 69 ff. vol. 2, 70-114 ff. |
| A.3.53 |
RAINES, F.R.
(1805-78) Antiquarian Rochdale Grammar School. Printed articles, cuttings, letters, notes etc. 1845. (30864). |
| A.3.54 |
BASSE, William
(d.1653?) Polyhymnia [a poem] and other poems. (Corser collection). 57 ff. (27866). |
| A.3.55-60 |
GERMAN
MANUSCRIPTS Collection of 6 mss written in German. Entitled Elementary geometry (55) Veterinary recipes & medical prescriptions (2 vols) (56a & b) Manual of precedents & proceedings in Austrian states (57) Manual of Guilds and Baronial Estates (58) Household and farm prescriptions (59) H.I.M.'s instructions for the Authorities in Silesia how to decide in monetary questions (60) (Collection of J. Gray Bell). (2790l). |
| A.3.61 |
PEREIRA,
Manoel Direcçåo para os nove dias de exercicias. (Portugal, 1723). 164 ff. |
| A.3.62 |
ALEXANDER VI,
Pope Vita di Rodrigo Borgia, pio Pontefice detto Alessandro Sesto e del Duca Valentino Suo Figlio. (Crossley collection). 315 pp. (27843). |
| A.3.63-64 |
BOWLE, Rev. John
of Idemestone, Wilts. (fl.1769-72) Vocabulario Cervantesco. Mss index in Spanish to `El Ingenioso Hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha' copied into an interleaved copy of Vocabulario Espanol e Italiano. Arranged in columns. (8000). |
| A.3.65 |
HOBSON,
Edward A collection of specimens of British mosses and hepaticæ 1822. Printed t.-p. & descriptions and specimens mounted on slips. 170 ff. |
| A.3.66-68 |
BANNE, Nathaniel
(1671-1736), St. Ann's Church, Manchester (66-67) An abridgement of Charles Daubuz : A perpetual commentary on the Revelation of St John (London 1720) vol.1 188 ff. vol. 2 188 ff. (6683). (68) Harmony of the Gospels. Translation and notes by Banne from Nicolas Trinard: Evangeliorum Harmonia (Paris, 1707); W. Whiston : Harmony of ye four evangelists (Cambridge, 1702); A. Bedford : Chronological Tables (London, 1730) 157 ff (6684) |
| A.3.69 |
THYER, Robert
(1709-81) Chetham's Librarian 1732-63 Commonplace Book c.1743. Theological extracts in English, French, Latin & Greek arranged under various subjects. 184 ff. (7999). |
| A.3.70 |
WILKINSON, Thomas
Turner (1815-75) Schoolmaster Notebook: folklore, rhymes, proverbs etc. c.1870. 3l pp. |
| A.3.71 |
THEOLOGY The glory and perfection of the human nature (1735) Ms of printed book? 244 ff. (27906). |
| A.3.72 |
MISCELLANEOUS
[late C18th] Mss extracts from printed works including Burney?s History of Music, Polwhele's Fragments of Orpheus, Polwhele's War elegies of Tyrtæus, The Hymn of Cleanthes, Bowring's Ode to the Deity, Hymns etc. 326 pp. |
| A.3.73 |
BYROM, John
(1692-1763) Poems of John Byrom in the hand of Robert Thyer (1709-81) Chetham's Librarian. 32 ff. (8014). |
| A.3.74 |
THEOLOGY A similitude to contemplate ye generation of eternal nature. Ms of printed version? C18th? 19 ff. (27943). |
| A.3.75-76 |
REYNOLDS, Thomas
(fl.1815) Divine authority and author of the Revelation. Series of 20 notebooks bound in 2 volumes. (N.B. Parts of the mss were printed in the Gentleman's Magazine 1815 et seq.). (11396) |
| A.3.77 |
NEWCOME, William
(1729-1800) Harmony of the Gospels. (Dublin, 1778). Transcript late C18th early C19th with some ommissions. 84 ff. (27947) |
| A.3.78 |
DAVIS, W.
(fl.1820) Bibliographical writer Catalogue of rare and curious books: formerly belonged to W. Davis. 272 ff. |
| A.3.79 |
GASTRELL, Francis
(d.1725) Bp. of Chester F.R. Raines?annotated copy of Notitia Cestriensis or historic notices of the diocese of Chester, ed. F.R. Raines, vol.II pt.II (Chetham Society )o.s. 2l, 1850). Also 17 letters to and from W. Stratford 1715-19. (Raines collection). |
| A.3.80 |
WHITAKER, John
(1735-1808) Commentaries on the history of the three last centuries. Extracts from Chesterfield?s On studying history. 482 pp. (28042) |
| A.3.81-82 |
SHORTHAND (81) Classical Literature, (82) Modern Literature, English and French. (Harland collection.). C19th. 3l4, 325 pp. |
| A.3.83 |
SEMBENINI,
Ortensio (c.1619) Relazione del viaggio fatto dal Illmo. Signor Girolamo Lando [Ambassador of the Venetian Republic in England]. Record of Lando?s travels to England. 48 ff. (6706 and 11386). |
| A.3.84 |
[RICHARDS, B.] (
fl.1731) Logic ... armoury of reason. Note book, English and Latin. 171 pp. (27926) |
| A.3.85 |
CHESHIRE
CLASSIS Some short accounts or brief hints of all questions proposed etc. at several meetings of the Cheshire ministers, 1691-1745. Transcribed by Henry Green, Knutsford 1863. 230 pp. (30931). |
| A.3.86 |
COOPER, Ralph (
fl.1775) The Chetham family: notes from Church registers, arms, pedigrees etc. 40 ff. |
| A.3.87 |
THEOLOGY Five great principles of the gospel revelation proved and explained c.1730. Transcript of printed book? 679 pp. |
| A.3.88 |
BANKS, Mrs. G.
Linnæus (1821-97) Novelist The Manchester Man. c.1875. Original autograph mss. 2 vol. in 4 bound in 4 parts. |
| A.3.89 |
[WATSON, Rev.
John] (1725-1783) Rector of Stockport Commonplace books. Epigramms and other pieces, original and selected. (c.1775-1783). 2 vols. 265 pp. 264 pp. (28041). |
| A.3.90-91 |
ASSHETON, Sir
Ralph (d.1716) Letter books of the Assheton family of Middleton. Household affairs, breeding of horses, leases of property, receipts etc. 1648-1715. vol.1 80 ff. vol. 2 262 ff. (33669) |
| A.3.92-94 |
DAVIES, Thomas
Stephens (1795-1851) Three volumes of holograph letters to Thomas Turner Wilkinson of Burnley, mathematician and antiquary from T.S. Davies, mathematician and writer on science. Master in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. vol.1 16 letters, 1848; vol. 2 31 letters,1849, vol. 3 21 letters, 1850 |
| A.3.95 |
[WATSON, Rev.
John] (1725-1783) Rector of Stockport Commonplace book. Political letters, verses etc. c.1750. 28 + 18 ff. (28040) |
| A.3.96 |
RIDINGS, Elijah
(1802-72) (i) The Poet?s dream of a better day for the human family; (ii) The Wanderers. Two mss bound as one. Also unpublished poems. 30 ff. ; 33 ff. (24477 and 24478) |
| A.3.97-98 |
LIGHTFOOT, John
(1602-75) Late C17th or early C18th transcripts of: (i) The Temple, especially as it stood in the days of our Saviour (London, 1650), (ii) The Temple Servies as it stood in the days of our Saviour (London, 1649) vol.1 126 ff. ; vol.2 77 ff. (6707) |
| A.3.99 |
LAW Legal cases and lectures (from Sir Matthew Hale?s Library c.1570-1600). (27923). |
| A.3.100 |
BUTLER,
C. Practical observations on conveyancing, copies by Robert Cooke. 1822. 248 ff. (27873). |
| A.3.101 |
SWALE,
J.H. Geometry of the Circle 1829-30. (Crossley collection). 77 pp |
| A.3.102 |
MEDICINE Medical recipes etc. in English, second half C16th. Mostly recipes, notes on herbs and some astrological material. Various hands. 75 ff. (27940) |
| A.3.103 |
FRASER,
Alexander Shorthand writer. Shorthand alphabet c.1790. (Byrom collection). 4l pp. |
| A.3.104 |
BIGGS,
George Shorthand writer. Stenography or short-hand improved. Dated Aug. 28, 1761. 65 pp. |
| A.3.105-06 |
FRASER,
Alexander (105) Shorthand writer. Brachygraphy, or the art of shorthand made easy and compendious, dated Jan. 29, 1794. Edinburgh. Unpublished ms. 56 ff. (18189). (106) Shorthand writer. Stenography or the art of shorthand writing improved. Dated 1793. Edinburgh. Unpublished ms. 150 pp. (18188). |
| A.3.107 |
WATSON, Rev. John
(1725-83) Rector of Stockport Receipts - kitchen, miscellaneous, physical. 1750-60. 133 ff. |
| A.3.108 |
MEDICINE Diary of a medical student in London in 1820-21. (Crossley collection). 80 ff. (27890). |
| A.3.109 |
BARTON, Rev.
William (d.1829) Commonplace book. Humorous and other pieces incl. some by Rev. T. Watson of Clitheroe. 1780-1810. (27865). |
| A.3.110 |
GASCOIGNE, William
(1612?-44) Notebook by William Gascoigne containing notes on the 1632 ed. of Lansberg?s Tabulæ motuum coelestium. Ms came from the sale of Towneley Hall, Burnley, Library. |
| A.3.111 |
MAYERNE-TURQUET, Sir Theodore Physician. Medical recipes c.1628-46. Chiefly Latin. 133 ff. (27939). |
| A.3.112 |
BOTANY/MEDICINE Two sets of lecture notes written by same student in 1796 entitled `A system of botany: History of Medicine'. 187 ff. |
| A.3.113 |
SERMONS Sermons against the popish tenets of infallibility, supremacy, transubstantiation, half communion, worshipping of images, invocation of saints and angels, purgatory & indulgences, prayers in an unknown tongue [ex libris Isaaci Harpur, 1685]. (Byrom collection). 69 pp. (28026). |
| A.3.114 |
NEWCOME, Henry
(1650-1713) Funeral sermons [vol.2 only]. Sermons preached at Torrington, Herts,Tattenhall,Cheshire, Middleton, Blakeley Chapel, Churchen-Heath Chapel, Tarporley: 1675-1712. 266 ff. |
| A.3.115 |
SHORTHAND Comparative theology, or the grounds of pure and peaceable theology (in shorthand). 13 ff. (25836). |
| A.3.116 |
PROUDE, Rev.
Joseph, of Staining, Sussex Sermons. c.1700. (27974). |
| A.3.117 |
JACKSON, Rev.
Henry, Curate of Gorton Book of common prayer, written after the manner of Dr Byrom?s shorthand 1803. 259 pp. |
| A.3.118 |
GUTHRY, H.
(1600-1676) Bishop Records of Dunkeld 1560-1649. (See printed copy Memoirs of H. Guthry, late Bp. Dunkeld, wherein the conspiracies and rebellions against Charles I are related,1702. 181 pp. (6693). |
| A.3.119 |
RIDER,
Samuel. Commonplace book, 1769. Including will of Thomas Guy, poetry, epitaphs etc. |
| A.3.120-21 |
FREHER,
Dionysius An explanation of three very different tables, mystical explanations of diagrams. 1746. (Byrom collection). 460 pp. (27897). |
| A.3.122 |
CHESSHYRE, Robert
and Peter Legal notes, letters etc. c.1696. 185 ff. |
| A.3.123 |
NEWCOME, Henry
(1627-1695) of Cross Street Chapel Transcript of his diary 1644-95. 470 pp. and 54 pp. (33647) |
| A.3.124 |
CONDER, Rev.
J. Lectures on preaching c.1800-1820. 191 pp. and 26 pp. (27883) |
| A.3.125 |
WALPOLE, Horace
(1717-1797) 4th Earl of Orford Strawberry Hill accounts : a record of expenditure in building, furnishing etc. from 1747-1795. 46 ff |
| A.3.126 |
HIGSON, John
(d.1871) of Lees Glossary of the Lancashire dialect. A glossary of idiomatic words and phrases current in the south east portion of Lancashire. October 1856. 268 ff. (36164). |
| A.3.127 |
MEDICAL RECIPES in
English (Ker 379-80) Second half C15th. (Byrom collection. 72 ff. (27938). |
| A.3.128 |
EVANGELISTARIUM
(Ker 374-5) Gospel lections of Sarum use. Second half C15th. (Byrom collection. 78 ff. (27894). |
| A.3.129 |
HYMNALE (Ker
376-7) Hymnorum de Sanctis collectio cum notis. Written in England for the use of the brothers of Syon, second half C15th. (Byrom collection). (In Caxton binding). 122 ff. (27907) |
| A.3.130 |
G. DE VINO SALVO
(Ker 382-3) (i) Nova Poetria etc. Written in England second half C14th-early C15th. (Byrom collection). (28024). |
| A.3.131 |
SALUTATI, Coluccio
(Ker 378-9) Opera. Second half C15th. (Byrom collection). (27929). |
| A.3.132 |
HORÆ (Ker
381-2) Book of hours written in France for the use of the diocese of Coutances. Second half C15th (Byrom collection). (27971). |
| A.3.133 |
ARISTOTLE Logica. Copied by Guillelmus O?Meara c.1650. (Byrom collection). (27859). |
| A.3.134 |
MEDICA
QUÆDAM (i) Capitulum primum de Natura sperme generantus etc. (Gynæological works in 65 chapters.) (ii) P. de Abano de Veneris etc. Written in Italy C15th. (Byrom collection). 306 ff |
| A.3.135-36a |
MUMFORD, A.A.
(1863-1943) (135) The Manchester Grammar School : 1515-1915 , Author?s grangerized and annotated copy of book published 1919. 563 pp. (136) Hugh Oldham, 1452(?) - 1519. Bishop of Exeter, Author?s grangerized and annotated copy of book published 1936. 154 pp (136a) Miscellaneous material. (i) McDougal, A. Report on some of the charitable trusts of Manchester 1855. (ii) Mumford, Old Manchester : a C17th relic [The Long Room]. (iii) Medical notes and lectures. (iv) Typescript and mss notes on libraries, esp. Chetham?s, Manchester Grammar School, etc. |
| A.3.137 |
TOWNELEY Catalogue of the Towneley Library at Park Street, Westminster. Late C18th. (Crossley and Bailey collections). 137 ff. |
| A.3.138 |
TOWNELEY, John
(1731-1813) Catalogue of books. Late C18th early C19th. 88 ff |
| A.3.139-47 |
NICHOLLS HOSPITAL,
MANCHESTER (139-41) Ledgers 1878-1950. (142) Analysis of accounts book 1938-51. (143) Summary analysis book 1938-50. (144) Monthly wage book 1931-48. (145) Insurance, salaries book 1948-50 (146) Diary of first governor 1881. (147) Application forms for admission (unused) |
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