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Project / Collection Stowe Collection Level [32] Fonds

1. Stowe Ch 1-646

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 1-646
Title:
Stowe Charters
Scope & Content:
Charters collected by Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d 1839) at Stowe House, Bucks. c 1000-c 1800. 646 charters.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, French, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1000-c 1800
Extent:
646 items

2. Stowe Ms 1-1085

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ms 1-1085
Title:
Stowe Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d 1839) at Stowe House, Bucks. c 1000-c 1800. 1085 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, English, Old, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Modern, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Scots, Spanish, and Welsh
Date Range:
c 1000-c 1800
Extent:
1085 items

3. Stowe Or 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Or 1
Title:
al-Qurʼān القرآن
Scope & Content:
Subject: Qurʼan--Manuscripts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe Or 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Or 2
Title:
al-Qurʼān القرآن
Scope & Content:
Subject: Qurʼan--Manuscripts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe Or 17A

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Or 17A
Title:
Album of plans and elevations of the Taj Mahal and other buildings in Agra.
Scope & Content:
Album of 25 plans and elevations of the Taj Mahal and other buildings in Agra laid down in an album, commissioned by Lady Nugent 1812. By Agra draughtsmen, 1812-15. The drawings are of varying sizes, some larger than the album page. The standard views are enclosed within thick and thin black ru...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1750-1800
Extent:
1 Item

6. Stowe Or 17A

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Or 17A
Title:
Album of drawings of the Taj Mahal and other Mughal monuments of Agra, commissioned by Lady Nugent.
Scope & Content:
By Agra draughtsmen, 1812-15. The drawings are of varying sizes, some larger than the album page. The standard views are enclosed within thick and thin black rules. The drawings of details unique to this album tend to run off the page without rules. Another feature unique to this album is th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1812
Extent:
1 Item

7. Stowe Or 20

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Or 20
Title:
Hikayet-i arba'in subh u mesa - حكايت اربعين صبح و مسا
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of the well-known tale entitled in Arabic Ḥikāyat arbaᶜīn ṣubḥ wa masāᵓ,by Aḥmad Maṣrī. The story is also commonly known as The Story of the Forty Viziers (Hikayet-i Kırk Vezir or Kırk Vezir Hikayesi). It is an expansion of an old Indian tale, ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 171 ff

8. Stowe Or 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Or 21
Title:
[Ottoman land transfer document]
Scope & Content:
This scroll contains a nişan-i şerif transferring the timar (military fief) Szent Tamás in the district of Temesvár, from Kâtip Ali, on his resignation, to his son Mehmet. It is addressed to Yusuf, Beylerbey of Temesvár. The document contains a lavishly decorated tuğra of Sultan Murad IV in go...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1037
Extent:
1 text, 2 ff

9. Stowe Or 25

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Or 25
Title:
Kammavācā
Scope & Content:
Kammavācā, Ch. I-IX. Numbered ပ-ဖဲ (with ပါ and ပု omitted).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pali
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume; 16 folios

10. Stowe Or 26 A

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Or 26 A
Title:
Kammavācā
Scope & Content:
Kammavācā manuscript. Numbered က-ကား.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pali
Date Range:
1st half of 18th century
Extent:
1 volume; 12 folios