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Reference Number MS PHILL/77
TitleHistorical, literary and scientific texts (18th century)
Date18th century
DescriptionManuscript volume containing 13 texts bound together [18th century]:

(1) Supplement tir de la dernire dition de Miller de 1759, par Monsieur Paul Gussen Bourdigne (10 leaves)

(2) Axiomes Historiques et Critiques sur les livres rare (19 + 1 leaves)

(3) Remarques sur l'ouvrage Historie des Revolutions de la Haute Allemagne (8 leaves)

(4) Apologie des Epikur (4 leaves)

(5) Fabula Boccaccii de Tancredo Principe Salernitano ejusque filia latine reddita, per Leonardum Aretinum (10 leaves)

(6) Sur les Cristaux et sur mon Caillou (4 leaves)

(7) Satyre sur Rousseau (4 leaves)

(8) Leben Heinrichs Grafen von Bunauw, bis circa 1733 aus Gabr. Wilh. Gouttens[?] jetzt lebenden Gelehrten Europa gezogen (4 leaves)

(9) Histoire et Lamentations de Prusias Roi de Bithyme (4 leaves)

(10) Betrachtungen ber die wichtige Frage Wie die Einknfte des Staats zu vermehren (6 leaves)

(11) Uber die Witterung des Jahres 1755 (6 leaves)

(12) Quelques observations astronomiques (4 leaves)

(13) Reflexions sur le systme cometique generalement reu (6 leaves).
Extent1 volume containing 90 leaves
CustodialHistoryThe volume belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), baronet, an antiquary and bibliophile whose collection included c60,000 manuscripts of various kinds, some relating to the administration of Swiss towns. Various manuscripts were sold after Sir Thomas's death, some to the German government, and were dispersed to several libraries. Formerly Phillipps MSS (respectively (1) 3480 (2) 3483ab and (3)-(13) 3484-8, 3490-1, 3493-3496) and Engel MSS.
AcquisitionThe Phillipps Manuscripts at University College London were given to the College by the German government in 1912.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAidsDorothy K Coveney, 'A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London' (London, 1935); handlist at University College London Special Collections.
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