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Drafts of letters
O./11a.5/9 · Unidad documental simple · [17th cent.?]
Parte de Manuscripts in Wren Class O

Drafts of letters: on financial matters; one addressed to 'your Ladyship', discussing college scholarships; letter to Mr Ballard re brother's will etc; to his mother, one mentioning the death of Dr Hill [Master of Trinity, died 1653]; to Mr Pellat [?]
Some notes in Latin.
In [?] another hand, notes on celestial observations from 30 Nov. 1650 and August 1652, and the solar eclipse of 1652; also notes on significant dates in the writer's life.
Draft of petition [1660] to Charles II forJohn Wilkins to remain as Master of Trinity (a position to which he was appointed by Oliver Cromwell)

Add. MS c/229 · Unidad documental simple · 16th c.?
Parte de Additional Manuscripts c

Phrases taken from Ovid (Metamorphoses); Latin verse; Greek verse; Latin prose text [perhaps relating to the Acts of St Andrew?]; more Latin verse; notes on [?] Roman law, mentioning Tiberius Gracchus. Notebook also used from other end in: Latin verse, beginning with a phrase taken from Ovid's Ars Amatoria, 'Militiae species amor est' then diverging; further Latin phrases with English equivalents; Latin notes on rhetoric, including on Cicero.

Add. MS c/230 · Unidad documental simple · 16th c.?
Parte de Additional Manuscripts c

Extracts from Seneca (Hippolytus) and Terence (in secretary hand), Greek verse, and extract from Livy (in an italic hand). Printed text of Ovid Metamorphoses (Book XV, lines 596-834) bound in at end of volume. Before these printed pages, and written from front to back: Greek and Latin notes: extract from an idyll by Theocritus; Latin text, 'Quam tenua est puerorum natura...'; another Latin text, 'Natura sigillas fuit...'; couplets in Greek.

"Historia de Alexandro el Magno"
Add. MS b/165 · Unidad documental simple · [17th cent?]
Parte de Additional Manuscripts b

Possibly a translation from Quintus Curtius Rufus, by an unidentified author. Note on the front free endpaper states that it contains a part of the 6th book, with the 7th through 10th books complete.

Woodcut printer’s device
Crewe MS/24B/f. 188r · Parte · 17th c.
Parte de Crewe Manuscripts

(A person in classical dress, standing on a small winged globe and holding a banner. Below the device is printed ‘A PARIS’, the first line of the imprint.)

Engraved device of a Hanover printer
Crewe MS/24B/f. 181r · Parte · 17th c.
Parte de Crewe Manuscripts

(A caduceus held by two hands, below a flying horse, with two horns of plenty in front; the whole within an elaborate frame incorporating various figures.)

Crewe MS/24B/f. 179r · Parte · 17th c.
Parte de Crewe Manuscripts

(Minerva and an owl, standing either side of an olive tree. Minerva holds a shield bearing the head of Medusa and a banner inscribed ‘Ne extra oleas’. This device appears in Descartes’ Tractatus de homine (1677).)

Inscription by Andreas Jeger
Crewe MS/20/f. 74r · Parte · 27 May (1601?)
Parte de Crewe Manuscripts

‘In hoc Unusquisque nostrum | Viret ut arescat | Adolescit ut senescat | Ascendit ut descendat | Vivit ut moriatur.’ (‘Guido Bituricensis’ (Guy de Fontenay?).) The year has been struck through.

Engraved printer’s device
Crewe MS/24B/f. 185r · Parte · 17th c.
Parte de Crewe Manuscripts

(A serpent, in a frame, flanked by cherubs, maps and globes, etc. Designed and engraved by François Chauveau.)

Engraved printer’s device
Crewe MS/24B/f. 185r · Parte · 17th c.
Parte de Crewe Manuscripts

A serpent, in a cartouche, flanked by two female figures, one holding a shield and spear, the other a mirror.

Woodcut printer’s device
Crewe MS/24B/f. 177r · Parte · 17th c.?
Parte de Crewe Manuscripts

(The illustration depicts the visit of the Magi, within a strapwork frame. At the foot is a printer’s mark containing the initials ‘F. M.’)

Crewe MS/24B/f. 180r · Parte · 17th c.
Parte de Crewe Manuscripts

(A head breathing on two hands holding a heart, within two mottos: ‘Verbis initur, manibus contrahitur, corde conservatur societas’ and ‘Concordia res parvæ crescunt, discordia maximæ dilabuntur’; the whole within an elaborate frame. Below the device is printed in capitals ‘A Lyon,’ evidently part of the publisher’s imprint.)