A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the British Museum hitherto undescribed
Subtitle: consisting of five thousand volumes, including the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., the Rev. Thomas Birch, D.D. and about five hundred volumes bequeathed, presented, or purchased at various times
By: by Samuel Ayscough, clerk.
Contributors: Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753.; Birch, Thomas, 1705-1766.; British Museum. Dept. of Manuscripts.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for the compiler, by John Rivington, Jun. ...
Published: 1782
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Manuscripts -- Great Britain -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Catalogs; Early works to 1800.
Notes: "Commenced in April 1780 and published in 1782 by leave of the Trustees, but as a private venture of the compiler."--Dict. nat. biog.
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; title: Index I: of the numbers of the volumes [i.e. the numbers of the manuscripts]; title: Index II: of the names which occur in the catalogue.