Index to the Sloane Manuscripts in the British Museum (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Index to the Sloane Manuscripts in the British Museum The Manuscripts here indexed formed a part of the extensive scientific and literary collections of Sir Hans Sloano, Bart., M.D. After his death on January 1lth, 1753, in accordance with the terms of his will, his entire Museum and Library were offered by his executors to the nation for 20, 000, and were ultimately purchased for that sum out of the proceeds of a public lottery under the Act of Parliament 26 Geo. II., cap.22, from which the British Museum dates its foundation. In common with the Cotton and Harley Mss., which were dealt with in the same Act, the Sloane Mss. have retained the name of their original collector, with a separate numeration, 1-4100, at the same time they serve for a basis to the great series of subsequent acquisitions known as the Additional Mss., the first of which is numbered 4101, and which have now reached the number 37, 000. As far as No.5017 the Sloane and Additional Mss. together are included in Samuel Aysoough sCatalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the British Museum hitherto undescribed, 1782, 2 vols, quarto. The descriptions there given do not follow the numerical order, but are roughly classified according to subject. Although useful to a certain extent, they are for the most part inadequate and too often incorrect, while the index is confined to a mere list of the personal names which appear in them. Apart from a new Catalogue, a fuller and more systematic Index, with references, not to Ayscough's pages, but to the manuscripts themselves, has therefore long been required, and, so far as the Sloane Mss. are concerned, it is at length supplied in the present volume. Besides names of persons and places and particular subjects, it includes a large number of class-headings, a list of the more important of which is prefixed. volumes and single documents on historical subjects will be found under the name of the country to which they relate, those of a general character being placed at the beginning and the rest following chronologically under the several reigns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.