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'Rough Pencil Sketch from the Point Bungalo Ras Marbut, Aden' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
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Genre/Subject Matter: View of the verandah of Haines’s bungalow at Ras Marbut [Ra’s Marbūţ] looking towards Little Aden. Haines sits facing away from the viewer at right, apparently sketching. His wife and another woman stand at centre in profile, looking out to sea. Several chairs, benches and...
Genre/Subject Matter: View of several colonial buildings at the foot of mountains, probably at Aden. This unfinished pencil sketch may depict Haines’ first residence in Crater. A cross or flagstaff on the lowest peak at upper centre may provide additional clues as to its location. Inscripti...
Drawings of the coast around Aden and along the Red Sea made during Elwon’s survey to establish the best course for steamers travelling to and from Suez by Thomas Elwon (1793/4-1835)
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Genre/Subject Matter: A series of coastal profiles in pencil record the survey of the Red Sea undertaken by Captain Thomas Elwon of the Benares that took place between 1829-1834 to establish the best course for steamers to and from Suez. Taken from a sketch book inscribed on the first page ‘C...
Drawings of the coast around Aden and along the Red Sea made during Elwon’s survey to establish the best course for steamers travelling to and from Suez by Thomas Elwon (1793/4-1835)
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Genre/Subject Matter: A series of coastal profiles in pencil, mostly incomplete, record the survey of the Red Sea undertaken by Captain Thomas Elwon of the Benares that took place between 1829-1834 to establish the best course for steamers to and from Suez. Taken from a sketch book inscribed ...
Grant by William Ireland of Yeldersely to Dulcissa, widow of Robert Ireland, of messuages, lands and rents
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Chirograph between William Ireland of Yeldersley, esquire, and Dulcissa, once the wife of Robert Ireland of the same, granting Dulcissa messuages, land and rents in Yeldersley and Locko as her dower for life, with a description of their location; given at Yeldersley, 1 November 1435. Endorsed: ...
Book of Hours, use of Rome, known as the 'The Dunois Hours', including: ff. 1r-12r: Calendar, use of Paris. ff. 13r-22r: Excerpts from the Four Gospels. ff. 22v-32r: Two prayers to the Virgin, 'Obsecro te' (ff. 22v-27r) and 'O intemerata' (ff. 27r-32r). ff. 32v-35r: Prayer 'Deus propicius.'...
A manuscript of the Apocalypse (Book of Revelation) with commentary, in French (ff. 1r-139v), beginning "Saint Pol l'apostre dit que touz ceulz qui veulent piement vivre en Ihesucrist souffreront persecucion...", and ending "...Que nous puissions ovec lui en sa gloire en coprs et en ame sanz reg...
This collection of moral tracts originally formed one volume with the Somme le Roy, Add. MS 28162. The manuscript includes: ff. 2r-7r: Traité de la sainte abbaye; incipit: 'La sainte abbaie e la religion doit estre fondee...' ff. 7r-28: Traité de l'amour de Dieu; incipit: 'Vous vouliez que je...
The Histoire d'Outremer, a French translation of the Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum by William, archbishop of Tyre (d. 1185), with a continuation to 1232. The manuscript must have been written after 1232, and probably before c. 1261, when a further continuation of the Histoire ...