A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the British Museum hitherto undescribed: consisting of five thousand volumes; including the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, bart., the Rev. Thomas Birch, D.D
By: By Samuel Ayscough, clerk
Contributors: Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753; Birch, Thomas, 1705-1766; British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Publisher: Printed for the complier by J. Rivington, jun., for the author
Published: 1782
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Manuscripts; Catalogs
Notes: "Commenced in April 1780 and published in 1782 by leave of the Trustees, but as a private venture of the complier"--Dict. nat. biog.

ESTC T160586.
Table of contents: title: I. Theology. Ecclesiastical history. History. Commerce. Arts. Mathematics. Astronomy. Philosophy. Chemistry.; title: II. Medicine. Natural history. Voyages. Grammars, &c. Literary history. Biography. Letters. Poetry. Judicial astrology. Magic. Miscellaneous. Mss. in Icelandic, and Oriental languages. Index I: of the numbers of the volumes [i.e. the numbers of the manuscripts] Index II: of the names which occur in the catalogue.