Search

Language Latin Digitised Content Yes (available)

2001. Harley Roll Y 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Roll Y 6
Title:
Life of Guthlac (the 'Guthlac Roll', or Vita Sancti Guthlaci)
Scope & Content:
Parchment roll composed of four and a half pieces of parchment, on which can be found 18 tinted drawings in roundels of the life of St Guthlac (c. 673-714). The roundels are largely in ink, now much faded, with occasional washes of green, and, more rarely, yellow. The subjects of the roundels ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1175-1215
Extent:

1 roll

2002. Harley Roll Y 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Roll Y 21
Title:
Lincolnshire jointure of Queen Jane Seymour
Scope & Content:
Roll listing part of the jointure of Queen Jane Seymour (b. 1509, d. 1537), being the money and lands given to support her financially during her marriage to Henry VIII, who had granted her more than 100 manors. The roll begins with lands formerly belonging to King John, listing the extent and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 16th century
Extent:
1 roll

2003. IOR/G/29/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/27
Title:
Letters from Harford Jones Esquire British Resident at Bagdat to The Right Honourable Henry Dundas, One of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, from July 1798 to May 1801, with an Appendix
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, memoranda, notes, and other papers relative to the early years of the Bagdad [Baghdad] Residency. The majority of the volume consists of letters from Sir Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad, to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control, with enclosures. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1 Jul 1798-8 Nov 1802
Extent:
1 volume (611 folios)

2004. IOR/G/29/27, ff 4-514

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/27, ff 4-514
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad, to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume comprises correspondence, memoranda, notes, and other papers relating to the first years of the East India Company Residency in Bagdad [Baghdad, also spelled Bagdat in this volume]. The first section (folios 4-153) consists of letters from Sir Harford Jones, Resident at B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1 Jul 1798-20 May 1801
Extent:
1 item (511 folios)

2005. IOR/L/PS/10/751

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/751
Title:
File 3156/1918 Pt 3 ‘Mesopotamia: Administration- [Past, Present & Future] Parliamentary Questions & Public Criticism 1920’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, reports, minutes, Parliamentary notices and extracts from Hansard and from The Times newspaper. The correspondence is mainly related to Parliamentary questions, addressed to the Prime Minister or to the Secretary of State for India, and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
11 Feb 1920-4 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 volume (217 folios)

2006. IOR/R/15/2/1514

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1514
Title:
‘File 16/17 i Agency Gardens’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to purchases for and the maintenance of the Bahrain Political Agency gardens. The file’s correspondents include: the Political Agent (Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett; Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior; Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch); representativ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Latin
Date Range:
13 Oct 1927-8 Nov 1942
Extent:
1 file (314 folios)

2007. IOR/X/3120

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3120
Title:
‘Route from Isfahan by Kermanshah to Muraga and return by Hamadan. Performed under Orders of Brigr. Genl. Malcolm by Lieut. E. Frederick of the Bombay Military Establishmt. AD. 1810’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Routes indicated by dotted lines. Inscriptions: On the recto in the bottom right-hand corner signature ‘John Garstin Surveyor Genls. Office Fort William 1811’. Labels: On the recto in the lower centre black ink oval stamp ‘E.I. COMP’S LIBRARY’.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1810
Extent:
1 map

2008. IOR/X/3127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3127
Title:
Historical maps of Hormúz Island
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London, T. Pettitt & Co. Litho. Distinctive Features: Map in the upper left: 'North end of Hormúz Island shewing site of ancient towns &c.’. Map in the upper right: 'Map shewing the position of Hormúz Island with reference to the Persian Coast and the other old European...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1874
Extent:
3 maps and 1 view on 1 sheet

2009. Kings MS 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 5
Title:
Biblia Pauperum
Scope & Content:
Biblia Pauperum, a picture Bible including a series of images of the life of Christ with Old Testament prefigurations, with three miniatures on every recto. Each miniature of the Christological cycle is accompanied by bust-length portraits of apostles and prophets holding scrolls and corresponds...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1395-1400
Extent:

1 volume

2010. Kings MS 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 9
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (''Anne Boleyn''s Book of Hours'')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-255v: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum; ff. 256r-303v: Devotional miscellany. Decoration: The Book of Hours (ff. 1-255) may have been illuminated by a Flemish artist, active in the Tudor court (Blackhouse, Books (1985), p. 79). The manuscript has also been attributed to a Paris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:

1 volume

Limit your search

more »

more »
more »
more »
more »