Janus: The Macclesfield Collection

Manuscripts/MS Add.9597 contains:
1	Items pertaining to the collection itself
2	Papers of Sir Isaac Newton
3	Printed Matter
4	Algebra
5	Arithmetic
6	Astronomy
7	Chronology
8	Finance
9	Fluxions
10	Geography
11	Geometry
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The Macclesfield Collection

Title	Printed Matter
Reference	MS Add.9597/3
Covering Dates	c 1650-c 1750
Extent and Medium	paper

Content and context

The Macclesfield Collection consists primarily of manuscripts, but it contains some printed matter: whole books, gatherings and loose pages. This has been collated into this single category.

Manuscripts/MS Add.9597/3 contains:

Remarks Upon the Solar and the Lunar Years, The Cycle of 19 Years, commonly called The Golden Number, the Epact, And a Method of finding the Time of Easter, as it is now observed in most Parts of Europe. "Being Part of a Letter from The right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield to Martin Folkes Esq; President of the Royal Society.".
Creator: Parker, George, 1695-1764, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield.
ff.12 [quarto]; paper.

1750

Pages from Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), vol. 42, no 462 (November 1742), pp.186-192. Contents page, pp.187-192 and one blank folio of a different size. Contains "VI. A Method of making a Gold-colour'd Glazing for Earthen-Ware; communicated in Latin, in a Letter from M. Godfridus Heinsius, Astron. Prof. At St. Petersburgh, to Mr. Peter Collinson, F.R.S. Read Nov. 11. 1742" and "VII. The mean Motion of the Apogee of the Moon, computed from Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, by G.P. Domcke, F.R.S. Read Nov. 11. 1742.".
Creator: The Royal Society.
ff.5 [quarto]; paper.

October 1742-November 1742

Folder of Miscellaneous Prints.
ff.14 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Miscellaneous Prints. f.1 on trigonometry; ff.2-3 and 7 on astronomy; ff.4-6 on Chinese characters; f.8 on shellfish. Probably from Miscellanea Berolinensia.
ff.8 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1746

A Genuine Detail of the Several Engagements, Positions, and Movements of the Royal and American Armies, during the Years 1775 and 1776. "... with an Accurate Account of the Blockade of Boston, and a Plan of the Works on Bunker's Hill, at the time it was Abandoned by his Majesty's Forces on the 17th of March, 1776. In a Series of Letters to a Friend.".
Creator: Carter, William, fl.1784, army officer.
ff.27 [large quarto]; paper.

1784

"Miscellanea Berolinensia ad incrementum scientiarum ex scriptis societati regiae scientiarum exhibitis edita, continuatio I. Cum figuris et indice materiarum," volume 2, Berlin, 1723. Miscellanea Berolinensia, published in 7 volumes between 1710 and 1743/4, was the transactions of the Society of Science in Berlin.
ff.110 [quarto]; paper.

1723

"Acta Literaria Sveciae," Stockholm and Upsalia, 1723-1729. pp.361-614 (1728-1729) are bound first, followed by pp.1-110.
ff.194 [quarto]; paper.

1723–1729

"Miscellanea Berolinensia ad incrementum scientiarum ex scriptis societati regiae scientiarum exhibitus edita continuatio I. Cum figuris et indice materiarum," volume 5, Berlin, 1737. Miscellanea Berolinensia, published in 7 volumes between 1710 and 1743/4, was the transactions of the Society of Science in Berlin.
ff.118 [quarto]; paper.

1737

Miscellaneous Astronomical Clippings. Primarily from almanacs and about eclipses.
ff.86 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Compass Diagrams.
f.1 [folio]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Pages from Almanac in Cyrillic Alphabet.
ff.8 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Miscellaneous Printed Diagrams. In folder labelled "Cuts belonging to the Academical Transactions at Petersburgh".
ff.23 [large quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Miscellaneous Clippings.
ff.80 [mixed]; paper.

c 1650-cc 1750