Manuscript papers and fragments
MS. Savile 101
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Manuscript papers and fragments
Shelfmark
MS. Savile 101
Summary
Manuscript papers and fragments, lately bound: among them are:
Notes of arrangements about the use of the Schools (2nd half of the 17th cent.: fol. 1)
Lists of Savile volumes, etc. (fols. 3, 11, 17-22, 26, 70)
Receipt by George Edwards for money for engraving 315 diagrams of Euclid, June 10, 1675 (fol. 10)
List of dr. John Wallis's books given by his son to the Savilian library in about A.D. 1705 (fol. 11)
Proposals by Leonard Lichfield for a new edition of Oughtred's Clavis Mathematica, 1692 (fol. 14, cf. 15)
A scribbled 18th cent. leaf bearing Matth. i. 18-21, etc. in Syriac (fol. 23)
A treatise on Arithmetical Series of about A.D. 1840 (fol. 33)
Additions: fols. 71-94 notes in Latin on some geometrical work, written late in the 17th cent.: found loose in the Savile collection, Oct. 1913.
Date
Written in the 17th-19th century
Language
English
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
72 Leaves
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Collection contents
Scientific Papers
Manuscript papers and fragments
