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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8959
Title:: Log-book of the Endeavour, Lieutenant James Cook, Commander, from May 1768 to July 1771
Scope & Content:: Log-book of the Endeavour, Lieutenant James Cook, Commander, from May 1768 to July 1771
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: May 1768-Jul 1771
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8960
Title:: Register of the men of the ship Endeavour, 1768-1771
Scope & Content:: Register of the crew of James Cook's first voyage, 1768-1771. 'Endeavour Banks, Complement 70 men. Began wages 25 May 1768. Also lists Marines borne as part of the complement.' Provides details of their ages, wages, place of birth, etc.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1768-1771
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9772
Title:: Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I, 1 Jan 1567
Scope & Content:: Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I, 1 Jan 9 Elizabeth I (1567). The recto contains a list of donors, grouped in order of precedence, with a description of the gifts made by each and a note as to their disposal, the total of money received being given at the foot as...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1567
Extent:: 1 parchment roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10109
Title:: Account book of payments made by James Nedam, 1542–1543
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–213v: Account book of the payments made by James Nedam, Surveyor General of the Works to King Henry VIII, in the years 1542–1543. It includes payments for the following: ff. 2r–9v: the new office for the King’s Surveyors in the Fish Yard; ff. 10r–49r: the new office for the King’s Surve...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1542-1543
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10112
Title:: Inventory of paintings and statues belonging to King Charles I, 1639
Scope & Content:: Inventory of paintings and statues belonging to King Charles I, 1639. Compiled by Abraham van der Doort, artist and curator (1575x85-1640). Contains details of 40 paintings and 12 statues, originally held in the King’s Chair Room, in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall. With an index of items deliver...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1639
Extent:: 1 volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10294, f. 1
Title:: La Queste del Saint Graal
Scope & Content:: Contents: Recto and verso of the first folio of La Queste del Saint Graal containing the first miniature of the cycle and the opening section of the text, incipit, 'A la veille de Pentecoste', explicit, 'Mesire G[awain] fait Lanceles facies q[ue] ceste espee v[ous]'. Decoration: 1 large ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1316
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10294, f 1
Title:: The beginning of La Queste del Saint Graal,
Scope & Content:: Contents: Recto and verso of the first folio of La Queste del Saint Graal containing the first miniature of the cycle and the opening section of the text, incipit, 'A la veille de Pentecoste', explicit, 'Mesire G[awain] fait Lanceles facies q[ue] ceste espee v[ous]'. Decoration: 1 large mi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1316
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex, 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10302
Title:: Thomas Norton, Ordinal of Alchemy
Scope & Content:: Contents: Thomas Norton (c. 1433-1513/14) of Bristol, Ordinal of Alchemy, ''Of Alkimy the Ordinal, the Crede Mihi, the Standard Perpetuall'', chapters 1-5 (lines 1-2682, with lines 2503-2622 lacking). This is the earliest surviving manuscript of the text, composed in 1477, perhaps a copy of th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A paper codex

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