From the Collection: Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930
Published / Created:
AD 1666 [or 1665?]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 408A
Container / Volume:
A
Image Count:
2
Description:
Autograph letter of Johannes Marcus Marci of Cronland in which he
presents the manuscript to Athanasius Kircher in Rome, in the belief that
Kircher would be able to decipher it. "Reuerende et Eximie Domine in
Christo Pater. Librum hunc ab amico singulari mihi testamento relictum,
mox eundem tibi amicissime Athanisi ubi primum possidere coepi, animo
destinaui: siquidem persuasum habui a nullo nisi abs te legi posse.
Petijt aliquando per litteras ejusdem libri tum possessor judicium tuum
parte aliqua a se descripta et tibi transmissa, ex qua reliqua a te legi
posse persuasum habuit; uerum librum ipsum transmittere tum recusabat in
quo discifrando posuit indefessum laborem, uti manifestum ex conatibus
ejusdem hic una tibi transmissis neque prius huius spei quam uitae suae
finem fecit. Verum labor hic frustraneus fuit, siquidem non nisi suo
Kirchero obediunt eiusmodi sphinges. Accipe ergo modo quod pridem tibi
debebatur hoc qualecunque mei erga te affectus indicium; huiusque seras,
si quae sunt, consueta tibi felicitate perrumpe. retulit mihi D.
Doctor Raphael Ferdinandi tertij Regis tum Boemiae in lingua boemica
instructor dictum librum fuisse Rudolphi Imperatoris, pro quo ipse
latori qui librum attulisset 600 ducatos praesentarit, authorem uero
ipsum putabat esse Rogerium Bacconem Anglum. ego judicium meum hic
suspendo. tu uero quid nobis hic sentiendum defini, cujus fauori
et gratiae me totum commendo maneoque. Reuerentiae Vestrae.
Ad Obsequia Joannes Marcus Marci a Cronland. Pragae 19 Augusti.
AD 1666 [or 1665?].
Holograph notes of sermons preached by Davenport at Hilton Castle near Durham, England, 1615 Nov-1616 Mar, accompanied by original binding and fragments; volume containing holograph examination responses in Latin dated 1625 May, and a holograph copy of Davenport's reply to A. Leighton about kneeling at the Sacrament, with other memoranda on conformity, dated 1626-1627; and holograph sermons preached at New Haven, Connecticut, between 1656 and 1658
Holograph notes of sermons preached by Davenport at Hilton Castle near Durham, England, 1615 Nov-1616 Mar, accompanied by original binding and fragments; volume containing holograph examination responses in Latin dated 1625 May, and a holograph copy of Davenport's reply to A. Leighton about kneeling at the Sacrament, with other memoranda on conformity, dated 1626-1627; and holograph sermons preached at New Haven, Connecticut, between 1656 and 1658
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1745 April 23–1749 July 14
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
box 1
Image Count:
270
Description:
The volume holds 266 pages of letters primarily from Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, and Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, writing from Whitehall in London. Also present are letters of instruction from George II appointing Hanbury-Williams Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of the King of Poland in 1747 (pages 13-24), his letter of revocation in 1749 for reassignment to the Court of the King of Prussia (pages 199-202), and his instructions from King George II for travel to Anspach to invest Charles William Frederick, the Margrave of Anspach, with the Ensigns of the Order of the Garter (pages 263-265). The letters in the volume were bound nearly in chronological order.
Other items in the volume are a copy of a letter written in 1715 to George Townshend from members of the Board of Trade (pages 1-8) and a copy of Lord Harrington's letter to all ministers abroad regarding court couriers, with a list of charges for their trips between Whitehall or Hanover and foreign cities (pages 9-12). Near the end of the volume (pages 243-262), is a "Paper delivered by Count Fleming," in which Saxon minister Karl Georg Friedrich Flemming mentions the June 1747 "double wedding" of Bavarian Elector Maximilian Joseph and his sister Princess Maria Antonia to the Electoral Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony and his sister Princess Maria Anna; the marriage united the ruling families of Bavaria and Saxony.
The volume is untitled; it is in a stiff-board binding covered in brown paper with a blue linen spine and has no label on the front cover. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 34; the Phillipps number is 10906.