This is an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue while we continue to recover from a cyber-attack.
This catalogue is currently browse-only. The collection item request form is not available at the moment but will be reopened from Monday 15 December. Find out more about our current collection access suspension.
Search
Search Constraints
You searched for:Digitised ContentYes (available)Level[40] File
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Content: The Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1230) and continued by Jean de Meun approximately forty years later. ff. 1r-155v: beginning: 'Maintes gens dient/ Que en songes/ Na se fables non/ Et menconges/ Mais len puet tel/ Songes songier/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier/ Ain...
A girdle-book containing a collection of thirteen Psalms, translated into English verse and apparently written by the legal official John Croke (b. 1489, d. 1554) in his own hand. Another copy of the text, without the hymn ‘Veni Creator’ but including Psalm 31, is now Add MS 30981, which is al...
This manuscript consists of the 'First Family' of bestiaries, with a text derived from the Physiologus with additions from Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636)'s Etymologies (Etymologies) (see McCulloch, Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries (1962) p. 31; Payne, Medieval Beasts (1990) p. 12). ...
Receipt of Dorothy Comberford, abbess of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate, London, for the lease of the rectory of Hartington
Scope & Content:
Receipt by Dorothy Comberford, abbess of the Abbey of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate, London, confirming she and the convent had received from George [Talbot] (1468-1538), earl of Shropshire [Shrewsbury], £26 30s 4d, for the lease of the rectory of Hartington, Derbyshire, and the hou...
'The main pass, Aden.' By Sir Henry Yule (1820-1899)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View, looking south, of a mountainous landscape through the Main Pass at Aden, the main route into Crater, towards a hill riddled with caves, one of which is likely to be the cave reputed to hold the tomb of Abel. A steep slope or series of steps leads towards the pass a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 pen and ink and wash drawing on watercolour paper
Genre/Subject Matter: Maritime view in the straits of Babelmandel [Bab-el-Mandeb]. A steamer is visible at left. Temporal context: This drawing was likely made during Henry Yule’s return journey to India with his new wife, Anna Maria White, in 1844. Inscriptions: Recto: Lower left, pen a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 watercolour and ink drawing on watercolour paper
Genre/Subject Matter: Maritime view in the Red Sea, at the northwest of the Bab el-Mandeb strait, of Gibel Tir [Jebel Al-Tair], meaning ‘bird mountain’. Temporal context: This drawing was likely made during Henry Yule’s return journey to India with his new wife, Anna Maria White, in 1844. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 watercolour, pencil and ink drawing on watercolour paper
Album of 154 drawings, most made in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801-63)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains one hundred and fifty-four landscape views and studies in watercolour and pencil of locations and subjects encountered between 1834 and 1839. The majority are inscribed with notes, dates and captions by the artist. Some inscriptions are in a later hand. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1834-39
Extent:
Album of 154 drawings of views in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan, 1 typescript note lightly tipped into a leather-bound album
'The North Pass of Aden or Baab el Yemen. Inside' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of the ‘North Pass’, or Baab el Yemen, at Aden. This probably depicts a pass between the main British settlement at Crater and Khormakser. “Inside” may refer to the location the drawing depicts, or to the fact that it depicts the south side of the pass, i.e. within th...
'A Mussulman Temple, Aden' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of a mosque or mausoleum at Aden, which may be an earlier incarnation of the Mosque of Abu Bakr al-‘Aydarus. The original building was constructed in the fifteenth century but heavily reconstructed at some point in the nineteenth century, perhaps after this sketch was...
