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Ferdinand II, Grant of an annuity. Latin, 1635

Grant by Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, to Giovanni Cosimo Geraldini, exchanging a commenda of the Order of St Stephen for an annuity on the Monte di Pietà. Signed by court officials and dated at Florence, 1 Feb. 1635.

Conveyance of land in Hadlow, Kent. Latin, 1555

Conveyance by Henry Fisher, Merchant of the Staple at Calais, to Francis Coleyn, citizen of Rochester, of Cobbam Meadow and 'an Island' at Hadlowe, Kent, 26 July 1555. The consideration is given as £100. Docketed with livery of seizin signed by Thomas Burges, John Smalham (?), John Pratt, Andree Fisher, Robert Fysher, William Smythe and James Bere. Signed and sealed by Fisher.

Prayers. Latin and English, seventeenth century

Prayers and devotions, gathered from printed works. Includes: ‘E Thoma’ Kempensi p. 117’, ‘Pro Humilitate’, ‘Pro Mansuetudine’, ‘Pro Benignitate’, ‘Oratio D. Thomae Aq.’, ‘A Prayer ag[ainst] failings’, ‘Oratio pro mortuis’, ‘A Prayer for Christian knowledge’, ‘E Dr Cosins Collection’ [John Cosin], several prayers by Bishop [Thomas] Ken, ‘On Christmas Day’.

Sixty-four sonnets by William Alabaster, transcribed 1627-8.

Alexander Neville, 'Angli ad Walliae Proceres Apologia'. Latin, c. 1600

Rayasum Paupia, English-Gentue dialogues. English and Singhalese, 1714

Rayasum Paupia: ‘These Dialogues the English as well as the Gentue was writ by Rayasum Paupia a Gentue Braminy Anno 1714’ (fo. 1r). There are 42 dialogues, all containing phrases useful in a domestic setting, or for the traveller. Particular emphasis is placed on Anglo-French relations: there are conversations between Englishmen in Paris, and Frenchmen in London. At the end (fos 57r-60v) is an ‘Alphabet which contains sixty three Letters, and the manner of Joining’.

Robert Sanderson, Diaries. English and Latin, 1706-32

Robert Sanderson, of St John’s College (1660-1741): diaries, 1706-32, with several substantial gaps. In English, apart from entries for 1706 and 1709, which are in Latin. The entries provide a detailed picture of Sanderson’s life in London and at the Rolls Office. Some entries are in a form of code. See The Eagle 26 (1905), 108-10.

‘Explanations’ upon Bentley’s Dedication of Horace. English, ca. 1730

‘Sehr Nutzliche Betrachtungen und Lehren’. German, eighteenth century

‘Sehr Nutzliche Betrachtungen und Lehren’: Roman Catholic devotional work in MS, with many printed devotional images of saints and other objects of veneration by Klauber and others. Includes meditations on God’s Love, God’s Will, and particular Psalms.