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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7192
Title:: Genealogy of French kings from Pharamond to Philip III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v- 33r: Genealogy of the French kings, written in French. Beginning with Pharamond, a legendary Frankish king of Trojan descent, who is identified by the 8th-century Liber Historiae Francorum as the first king of France; his arms are gules, three toads or. Ending with Philip III ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7399
Title:: A collection of French 'airs de cour'
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-63v: A collection of French 'airs de cour'. Decoration: Initials with zoomorphic, anthropomorphic and grotesque features and interlace decoration in colours. Drawings of flowers, plants and farm animals in colours. Small initials with foliate decoration in colours.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7546
Title:: Pierre Michault, La Danse aux avengles
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-40v: Pierre Michault, La Danse aux avengles, imperfect; the manuscript is missing the first part of the text, which is supplied on f. [iii]recto-[iii]verso]. This satirical work, written in 1466, partly in prose and partly in verse, consists of a dialogue between L'acteur (the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MIL/5/794
Title:: Policy etc. following Genl. Smuts recommendations: Egypt and Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence regarding military policy and strategy in Egypt and Mesopotamia [Iraq] during the First World War in response to recommendations made by General Jan Christiaan Smuts, Defence Minister of South Africa and a member of the Imperial War Cabinet. Topics covered in t...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 21 Feb 1918-28 Mar 1918
Extent:: 1 file (22 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/10/844
Title:: File 4326/1919 'Persia: the Shah's visit to Europe 1919-20'
Scope & Content:: This volume comprises: correspondence; deciphered telegrams; India Office Political Department Minute and Draft papers containing draft letters, draft telegrams and internal notes; covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India (wit...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 20 Jul 1919-28 Aug 1924
Extent:: 1 volume (262 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/10/1276
Title:: File 4640/1928 Pt 4 ‘MUSCAT: FUTURE POLICY IN. Tariffs.’
Scope & Content:: This volume contains papers relating to British policy in Muscat. It includes some papers regarding the situation at Sur; however most of the volume concerns the financial situation of the Muscat state, mainly the proposal to increase state revenues by removing the limitation on the power of the...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: 25 Aug 1928-17 Mar 1932
Extent:: 1 volume (489 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 2
Title:: Bible (imperfect, with Joshua 13-Hebrews 6 only)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is an imperfect 13th-century Bible of the Vulgate text, beginning with Joshua 13 and ending in Hebrews 6. The manuscript is wanting many leaves at the beginning and end, and after f. 148 (Psalms 117:121-Wisdom 12: 25), as well as five after f. 334 (Galatians 3:19-1 Thessalonians ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: LFC Ch VII 3
Title:: Grant by Renaud and Ida, count and countess of Boulogne, to Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury
Scope & Content:: Grant by Renaud Dammartin and Ida, count and countess of Boulogne, for the honour of God, St Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury and martyr, and for their souls and those of their parents, and heirs, to Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury, excusing the convent from tolls and customs at Boulo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1190-1214
Extent:: 1 leaf

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 21(120)
Title:: H.H. the Maharajah of Barwani with his ambulance cars in France. Photographer: Girdwood, Charles Hilton DeWitt
Scope & Content:: Genre: Historical Events Subjects = field ambulances; Indian Army in Europe; military (general); military campaigns; military hospitals
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1915
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 21(151)
Title:: Tenderly lifting a serious case; stretcher bearers at work. Photographer: Girdwood, Charles Hilton DeWitt
Scope & Content:: Genre: Historical Events Scene from manoeuvres. Subjects = Indian Army in Europe; military (general); military campaigns; military exercises; military hospitals; military training; stretcher bearers
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1915
Extent:: 1 item

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