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Manuscripts and Letters of Oscar Wilde

Browse all the items in a bound collection of Oscar Wilde's letters and manuscripts, the whereabouts of which has been unknown to scholars for over half a century.

Digital Facsimile

Autograph book.

Accession number

Harding MS 05A

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Music Manuscript

A new booke of destillatyon of waters, called the Treasure of Evonymvs : containing the wonderful hid secrets of nature, touching the most apt formes to prepare & destill Medicines, for the conseruation of helth, as quintessence : Aurum Potabile, Hyppocras, aromaticall wynes, balmes, oyles, perfumes, garnishing waters & other manifold excellent confections ... / translated (with great dilligence, & labour) out of Latin, by Peter Morwyng felowe of Magdaline Colledge in Oxforde : wherunto is added a profitable table or Index for the better finding of al such waters as serue aswel for medicines, as also for the principal matters or other, conteyned in the booke.

Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565.

Imprinted at London : By Iohn Day, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, beneath Saynt Martines, Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis June 1, 1565.

PML 38771

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Laus Deo! The Worcester collection of sacred harmony : In two parts. Containing, I. An introduction to the grounds of musick, or, Rules for learners. II. A large number of celebrated psalm tunes, from the most approved authors. Suited to all metres usually sung in churches : To which is added, an appendix. Containing a number of excellent psalm tunes, (several of which are entirely new) and other pieces of sacred vocal musick, many of which were composed by eminent European authors, and never before published in this country : The whole compiled for the use of schools and singing societies.

Printed, typographically, at Boston : by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews. Sold by them at Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury Street; and by said Thomas in Worcester. Sold also by the booksellers in town and country, 1794.

PML 82290

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the church, with an universall historie of the same : wherein is setforth at large the whole race and course of the church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland : now againe, as it was recognised, perused, and recommended to the studious reader /cby ... John Foxe.

Foxe, John, 1516-1587.

At London : Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1610.

PML 3201

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

A compleat collection of English proverbs : also the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages. The whole methodically digested and illustrated with annotations, and proper explanations. / By the late Rev. and learned J. Ray ... To which is added, (written by the same author) A collection of English words not generally used, with their significations and original in two alphabetical catalogues; the one, of such as are proper to the northern, the other, to the southern counties. With An account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are found in England.

London : Printed for W. Otridge, S. Bladon [etc.], 1768.

PML 7223

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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