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  Proceedings of a Court of Enquiry held at West Point, the second day of November 1780 in Pursuance of an Order from His Excellency General Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America to Major General Heath

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  Two copies, both in Richard Varick's hand, of the proceedings of the court of inquiry that cleared him and David Franks of aiding Benedict Arnold. Copy A includes the text of The Interrogatories of Major Franks (1780, Nov. 19). Copy B ends with the text of Varick's speech to the court.

  mssHM 893

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  Chronicle : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-135; ff. 135v-136v blank. [Robert of Gloucester]. [Chronicle]. Incipit: Engelond is swithe good I wene hit is lond beste/ In oon ende hit is yset: of þe world al in þe west. Explicit: þat of þe walische londe clanlich al out/ He wan þe seignorye nere hi no so prout. English. IMEV 727 . W. A. Wright, ed., The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. RS 86 (London 1887); HM 126 of the later recension; ff. 127v-135 correspond to Wright's Appendix XX, pp. 838-77.

  mssHM 126

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  Game at chesse : manuscript, 1624

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  Thomas Middleton's game at chess, including the Prologue, partially in his own hand along with two other scribes. Paper, i, 54, ii leaves. Principally in a professional secretary hand, with the title-page (f. 1r), folios 21v-2r, 46r-54v (including the Epilogue), and two or three corrections elsewhere in Middleton's hand, as well as possibly the boxing of speakers' names in pencil or lead point; the Latin oration on f. 45r in another scribal hand. Written in 1624. Pencil foliation begins on initial blank leaf and continues through final blank leaves.

  mssEL 34 B 17

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  Commentary on the Pauline epistles : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-129v: [Ambrosiaster, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles]: Rubric: Incipit Tractatus Sancti Ambrosii In Epistola Ad Romanos, Paulus servus ihesu christi. Incipit: Apud veteres [nostros ratione] nomina componebantur ut ysaac propter risum ... Explicit: ut securos illos faciat et erigat ne timeant que irrogari possunt a perfidis sed in persecutione alacres//. [This manuscript missing 4 quires after f. 112 (end of commentary on 2 Corinthians, all of Galatians, all of Ephesians, beginning of Philippians); missing one leaf after f. 126 (part of Colossians); missing undetermined amount after f. 127 (end of Colossians, all of 1 Timothy, beginning of 2 Timothy); missing undetermined amount after f. 129 (end of 2 Timothy, all of Titus, all of Philemon); 1 and 2 Thessalonians are copied before Colossians. Each epistle commentary remaining with incipit (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, Colossians) is prefaced by a chapter list; the chapter lists in this copy of Ambrosiaster retain forms of the Vetus Latina recension].

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  Nicomachean ethics : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-126; ff. 126v-127v blank. [Aristotle] [Nicomachean Ethics]. Incipit: Omnis ars omnisque doctrina similiter autem et actus et electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur. Quapropter bene ostenderunt summum bonum quod omnia appetunt. Videtur autem inter fines differentia quedam. Alii namque sunt operationes. Explicit: quis rei publicae status sit optimus et quomodo una quaeque res publica constituta sit et quibus legibus et moribus. Hieronimus Mediolanensis scripsit feliciter. Latin. Other creator(s): Leonardo Bruni, translator. This manuscript lacks the preface to Martin V (1417-31) occurring, for example, in the 1479 Oxford edition (GW 2373), although the prologue of the translator is present, " Aristotelis ethicorum libros facere latinos nuper institui non quia prius traducti non essent sed quia sic traducti erant ut barbari magis quam latini effecti viderentur." See E. Franceschini, "Leonardo Bruni e il 'Vetus Interpres' dell'Etica a Nicomaco," in Medioevo e Rinascimento: Studi in onore di Bruno Nardi (Florence 1955) 1:299-319.

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  Portolan chart : [cartographic material] : [manuscript], approximately 1502

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  Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in square capitals; land masses outlined in color with islands painted in blue or red, gold or silver; 12 compass roses with the usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red, and green ink for principal directions; double latitude scales (numbered 5° higher on right than on left) and double equator (to compensate for magnetic variation), no longitude; distance is indicated by a series of small circles in lower right corner; decorated with a few figures and vignettes (very faded). Unbound: originally a rolled chart, now flattened. Parchment, f. 1 (full skin); 585 x 942 including left extension (map size, 530 x 772) mm. Top and bottom border decorated with gold in trellis pattern, latitude scales form borders at left and right. Also widely known as the "King-Hamy Portolan chart".

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