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52. IOR/P/1002 Jun 1876 nos 03-04
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/P/1002 Jun 1876 nos 03-04
- Title:
- Proposed International Sanitary Convention
- Scope & Content:
- pp 239-57. Correspondence regarding the proposed International Sanitary Convention designed to give practical effect to the conclusions of the Vienna Sanitary Conference 1874, and the measures implemented following the Constantinople Sanitary Conference 1866. Discusses research into cholera; qua...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- Jun 1875
- Extent:
- 19 pages
53. IOR/P/1003 Jun 1877 nos 04-18
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/P/1003 Jun 1877 nos 04-18
- Title:
- Outbreak of plague in Turkish Arabia and the quarantine arrangements which have been made for preventing the spread of the disease
- Scope & Content:
- pp 153-71. Copy communications forwarded to the Home Department regarding the outbreak of plague at Baghdad, Tehran, along the Euphrates and the Tigris, quarantine arrangements and other measures - disinfection, destruction of woollen goods - taken to prevent its spread. Includes reports and te...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English, French, and Italian
- Date Range:
- Mar 1876-Jun 1877
- Extent:
- 19 pages
54. IOR/P/1003 Oct 1877 nos 73-75
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/P/1003 Oct 1877 nos 73-75
- Title:
- Regulation of pilgrim traffic in the Red Sea
- Scope & Content:
- pp 569-621. Secretary of State for India forwards copy telegrams, correspondence and regulations concerning the pilgrim traffic in the Red Sea, and proposals by Turkish authorities for regulation and quarantine. Includes copy communications from: Sir Henry Elliot. Dr Dickson, British Delegate t...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- Mar 1877-Oct 1877
- Extent:
- 51 pages
55. Royal MS 12 C XII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 12 C XII
- Title:
- A collection in prose and verse, including culinary recipes
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: This manuscript consists of eight originally independent units or booklets, each containing from one to four quires. See Hathaway, Fouke le Fitz Waryn (1975), p. xliv-xlvii on how this manuscript was compiled. The contents include: ff. 1r-v, Office in honour of Thomas, Earl of Lancas...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1320-1340
- Extent:
-
1 volume
56. Royal MS 14 B VI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 14 B VI
- Title:
- Genealogical roll of the kings of England
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: A roll chronicle containing the genealogy of the Kings of England from the Heptarchy to Edward I (b. 1239, d. 1307), king of England from 1272, in the form of a diagram of interconnected roundels with royal portraits in colours and gold, and an accompanying commentary. Incipit: 'Par ce...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and French
- Date Range:
- c 1300-c 1340
- Extent:
-
1 roll
57. Royal MS 19 B XVI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 19 B XVI
- Title:
- Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum Dominarum)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains an early 15th-century copy of Le Miroir des Dames, an anonymous French translation of the Speculum dominarum, a treatise on queenship written for Jeanne de Navarre (b. 1273, d. 1305), Queen of France and wife of Philip IV (r. 1285-1314), by her confessor, Durand de Champ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- 1428
- Extent:
-
1 volume
58. Royal MS 20 A XVI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 20 A XVI
- Title:
- Chansons, in French, set to music for several, but in most cases three voices, in parts.
- Scope & Content:
- Except where the contrary is stated, the chansons are for three voices and are anonymous. The contra-tenor is sometimes called 'Concordans.' The names of the composers are given only in a few cases, but several are by Josquin des Pres, and one at least (f. 10b) is by Alexander Agricola. Content...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- Early 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (36 folios)
59. Sloane MS 475
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 475
- Title:
- Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus Favinus, Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; Oxiepate; Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis; Bede, De Temporum Ratione (excerpt); Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Pseudo-Galen, De febribus; recipes and a treatise on uroscopy
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1r-124v; 125r-231r) bound together at an unknown period, both containing medical recipes, charms, various medical treatises and prognostics in a medical context. The first part was produced at the beginning of the 12th century in England. The ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
60. Sloane MS 2052
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 2052
- Title:
- Sir Theodore de Mayerne, Pictoria, sculptoria et quae subalternarum artium (the 'Mayerne manuscript')
- Scope & Content:
- The manuscript contains miscellaneous notes on the subject of artistic techniques, including the making of pigments, oils and varnishes, the priming and preparation of surfaces for painting, and the repair and conservation of paintings. The manuscript also contains notes of chemical experiments,...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1620-1646
- Extent:
-
1 volume
