Mary Hyde Eccles autograph collection, 1514-1697.

Buchanan, George, 1506-1582

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Historian and scholar. From the description of De Maria Scotorum Regina, totaqz ejus contra Regem conspiratione ... : manuscript, not autograph. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270536340 Scottish historian. From the description of Detectio Mariae, sive, De Maria Scotorum Regina ... : Latin manuscript, not autograph, 1567. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270536367 Scottish poet and historian. From the description of Detection of the doeings of M...

John Copleston

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Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536

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John Evelyn

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Machiavelli, Niccoló, 1469-1527

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Rodulpho was capitain at Livorno, which the Republic of Florence had purchased in 1421. From the description of Letter : to Francesco Rodulpho : 1500 Apr. 1. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612797384 ...

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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Elzevier, Louis, 1604-1670

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Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529

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Italian author and diplomat. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Rome, to the Marquis Federigo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, [1521 Jan. 1]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133672 The Sauli family were bankers in Rome. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Casatico and Mantua, to the Duke of Urbino, 1523 June 18 and 1523 July 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270138826 ...

Vincent Cornelissen

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Racine, Jean, 1639-1699

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Jean Racine, playwright. From the description of Andromache : typescript, 1987, 26 February. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122456127 From the description of Berenice : tragedy : typescript, 1988, 4 November. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122580860 William Carpenter was born in Cornwall, and matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1753. He received his B.A. in 1757; his M.A. in 1759; and his B.D. and D.D. in 1772. Fr...

Christopher Pearse

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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716

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Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646 in Leipzig, Germany; he entered Leipzig Univ. and received the degree of doctor of law in 1666; became a philosopher, mathematician, and political advisor; became known as both a metaphysician and a logician, and invented differential and integral calculus; his major writings include: New physical hypothesis (1671), New method for the greatest and the least (1684), Discourse on metaphysics (1686), New system (1695), On the ultimate origin of things (1697), and On...

Luther, Martin, 1483-1546

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German religious reformer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Wittenberg, to Wolfgang Fabricius, 1524 [May 25]. (Morgan Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 81019871 Ottensassen, Burgermeister of Hersfeld, was held in bonds along with Heinrich Reiz in Spangenberg after the capture of Hersfeld. They were released but not allowed to return to Hersfeld. From the description of Letter : to Hans von Ottensassen, 1527 [Feb 5]. (Harvard University)....

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564

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Sir Francis Drake

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Louis Bouteiller

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Felix Feuillet

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Drake, Sir Francis, 1540?-1596.

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Geneva. Conseil.

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Sigismondo Gonzaga

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Chretien Francois

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Richard Blandfield

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Gregor Brück

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Descartes, René, 1596-1650

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Epithet: philosopher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x0003dc ...

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (b. August 29, 1749, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt-d. March 22, 1832, Weimar) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, and natural scientist. He is often ranked with Shakespeare and Dante as one of the three most important poets in history. Goethe gained early fame with The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774, but his most famous work is Faust, a poetic drama in two parts....

Ellezias Menuard

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Jean Calvin

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Vida, Marco Girolamo, approximately 1485-1566

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Eccles, Mary Hyde

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Mary Hyde Eccles was one of the world's leading collectors of books and manuscripts from the 1940s until her death in 2003. She was also a distinguished literary scholar, and an important benefactor to numerous libraries and cultural institutions. This collection relates to her essay "Not in Chapman," a catalog of unpublished Samuel Johnson letters. As this project neared completion in 1964, a new cache of letters from Samuel Johnson to Charlotte Lennox was discovered in the vault of the British...

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642

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Astronomer and physicist. From the description of Letter signed (the concluding page only) : Florence, to an unidentified correspondent, 1612 Aug. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269597521 ...

Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Mr. Long, 1650 Jan. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526766 From the description of Autograph endorsement and signature : [n.p.], 1660 Dec. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270512553 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x00028d ...

Francesco Vettori

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Taylor, John, 1580-1653

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Pope Leone X.

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Marin, Mersenne

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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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Philippe de Marnix, seigneur de Sainte-Aldegonde

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Charles-Rene d'Hofner

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