Proceedings in the Court of Claims for the Coronation of Charles II. Latin and French, c. 1661

'Processus factus ad Coronacionem Serenissimi Domini Caroli secundi Regis Anglie etc. Anno regni sui Decimo tercio' (fo. 5r). A formal contemporary record of the establishment and proceedings in the Court of Claims, May 1661. The records of this Court at the Public Record Office date from the eighteenth century (PRO, C195).

Christopher Nenning, Chronograms. Latin, sixteenth century

'Chronographiae sacrae vtri usque Testamenti Historias continentis Libri Quinque, dedicati Serenissimae ac Potentissimae Heroinae er Dominae, Dn: Elisabethae, Reginae Angliae, Franciae et Hyberniae, Dominae suae longe clementissimae, Authore M. Christophoro Nenningio Misnense Poëta Caesareo coronato exule Christi'. With verse dedication to the Queen and verses 'as candidum lectoruem' at beginning and end.

Correspondence between Walter Moyle and John Reynolds. English, c. 1734

Near-contemporary copies of an antiquarian correspondence between Walter Moyle (1672-1721) and John Reynolds, Master of Exeter School and later Canon of Exeter (d. 1758). The copies may be the work of William Barlow, Fellow of St John's College (d. 1753). Moyle's Works were edited by Thomas Sergeant and first published in 1726-7. However, these letters apparently remain unprinted.

The copied letters are as follows:

St John's College Library, 'Liber Memorialis'. Latin and English, 1627-1718

John Milner, Latin translation of the Targum on Chronicles I and II. 1662.

Edward Forsett (?), 'Eloquentiae studiosis'. Latin, early seventeenth century

Life of Pope Sixtus V in Italian, 17th cent?

A note in the hand of C.W. Previté-Orton on fo. 1 reads 'Life of Pope Sixtus V in Italian closely allied to that of Leti and the Corsini MS (see Ranke's 'Popes', Appendix, Sect. IV.1)' i.e. Leopold Ranke's The Popes of Rome. This note appears to refer to Gregorio Leti's Vita di Sisto V. pontefice Romano (Lausanne, 1669) and to a manuscript in the Biblioteca Corsiniana in Rome titled 'Detti e fatti di papa Sisto V'.

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A collection of notes mostly relating to Richard Bentley. English, 19th century.

Richard Bentley (1662-1742), philologist and classical scholar, Master of Trinity College Cambridge (for whom see ODNB). It has been suggested that this collection was composed by Thomas Kidd (1770-1850), classical scholar and schoolmaster.

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'Le Sieur de la Croix, Les Eglises orientales'. French, c. 1690

Le Sieur de la Croix, diplomat and orientalist (c. 1630s-1704): 'Les Eglises orientales grecque, Armenienne, et Maronite'. De la Croix's authorship is recorded at p. xvii. The work was published in Paris, 1695. It was written after 1673 (see p. vii). On the author, see Paul Sebag, 'Sur deux orientalistes français du XVIIe siècle', Revue de l'Occident Musulman 25 (1978), 89-117. 

Richard Duffield, 'The Preacher's Assistant'. English, bef. 1830