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1. Add MS 12531/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 12531/1
Title:
Leaves from the Genealogy of the Royal Houses of Spain and Portugal (the 'Portuguese Genealogy')
Scope & Content:
Contents and decoration: f. 1: Space left for Prologue with a full historiated border . In the upper section are the heraldic emblems of the Infante don Fernando, with the arms of the Portuguese royal family suspended from the gold architectural frame against a green ground. On either side are ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1530-1534
Extent:

A part of Add MS 12531: folios 1; 2; 3; 4 mounted separately and kept in a box together.

2. Add MS 12531/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 12531/2
Title:
Leaves from the Genealogy of the Royal Houses of Spain and Portugal (the 'Portuguese Genealogy')
Scope & Content:
Contents and decoration: f. 5:r Genealogical tree of the Kings of Navarre and Aragon, with five tiers or generations: 1st or lowest tier: Garcia Sanchez II de Pamplona (reigned 994-1000/04) son of Sancho Garces II (970-994), seated on his throne holding a sword, with his queen, 'Doña Costanci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1530-1534
Extent:
A part of Add MS 12531: folios 5, 5*, 6, 7 mounted separately and kept in a box together.

3. Add MS 12531/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 12531/3
Title:
Leaves from the Genealogy of the Royal Houses of Spain and Portugal (the 'Portuguese Genealogy')
Scope & Content:
Contents and decoration: f. 8r: Genealogical tree of the queens and infantas of Portugal, showing Dona 'Doce' or Dulce de Aragon (d. 1198), wife of Sancho I and her father, Raymond Berenguer IV and mother, Petronila, below; around her are Urraca, wife of Alphonso II and the infantas Dona Sancha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1530-1534
Extent:
A part of Add MS 12531: folios 8, 9, 9*, 10, 11 mounted separately and kept in a box together.

4. Cotton MS Nero B I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero B I
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Portugal, 1373–1604
Scope & Content:
Collection of records and papers concerning England and Portugal, dating from between 1373 and 1604. Including letters by Henry VI (1421–1471), king of England, lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine; King João I of Portugal (1385–1433); King João III of Portugal (1521–1577); and William Cecil, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1378-1604
Extent:
1 volume

5. Cotton MS Tiberius D IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius D IX
Title:
João de Castro, Roteiro do Mar Roxo
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a 16th-century rutter or pilot-book known as the Roteiro do Mar Roxo (Rutter of the Red Sea). It was made by the Portuguese nobleman João de Castro (b. 1500, d. 1548) during his 1541 expedition to Suez under Estêvão da Gama (b. c. 1505, d. 1576), governor of Portuguese India. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Portuguese
Date Range:
1543
Extent:
1 volume

6. Cotton MS Titus B VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus B VII
Title:
Letters to the Earls of Leicester, Sussex and others
Scope & Content:
Letters to the earls of Leicester, Sussex, and others, mainly from the reign of Elizabeth I and James I (1558-1625). f. 1r partial contents list of letters. ff. 2r-3v Letter from Robert Zinzan to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Reporting his delivery of the Queen’s present of horses to King ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1558-1625
Extent:
1 volume

7. Cotton MS Vespasian F III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian F III
Title:
Correspondence and other documents written or attested by various monarchs
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other documents written or attested by the kings, queens and rulers of England, France, Scotland, Castile, Aragon, Spain, Portugal, Florence, Tuscany, the Holy Roman Empire, Bohemia, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and Russia, including William I of England (1066–1087) and his succes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume