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2791. Add MS 35304

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Title:
BARROW BEQUEST. Vol. V. Watercolour drawings and printed materials relating to the voyage of H.M.S. North Star to Baffin Bay and Barrow Straits
Scope & Content:
Five watercolour views in Wolstenholme Sound, Baffin Bay, [Greenland], and several smaller sketches and maps illustrating the voyage of H.M.S. North Star (James Saunders, Master-commanding) to Baffin Bay and Barrow Straits, 1849-50. The North Star was intended as a provision-ship for the Frankli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1849-1850
Extent:
1 volume (19 folios)

2792. Add MS 35305

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BARROW BEQUEST. Vol. VI. Manuscript of ‘The Queen's Illuminated Magazine and North Cornwall Gazette’
Scope & Content:
‘The Queen's Illuminated Magazine and North Cornwall Gazette. Published in Winter quarters, Arctic Regions’, 28 October 1852-12 February 1853. The original manuscript, mainly in the handwriting of Lieutenant [afterwards Rear-Admiral] Sherard Osborn, in command of H.M.S. Pioneer in the Franklin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1852-12 Feb 1853
Extent:
1 volume (68 folios)

2793. Add MS 35311

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Title:
Breviary, Use of Rome (the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria')
Scope & Content:
Breviary of the Use of Rome, known as the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria'. This manuscript comprises the winter portion of the Breviary made for John the Fearless (b. 1371, d. 1419), Duke of Bavaria, and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria (b. 1363, d. 1423). It originally fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1413-1419
Extent:
1 volume

2794. Add MS 35313

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Book of Hours, use of Rome (the 'London Rothschild Hours' or the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, known as the 'London Rothschild Hours' or the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile'. ff. 1v-7r: Calendar: the saints in red include, St Rémi (local spelling Remigy) and St Bavon (Bavonis) of Ghent (1 October), Donatian, Bishop of Reims [translated to Bruges] (14 October), and Eligius, b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:

Parchment codex

2795. Add MS 35318

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
This Book of Hours, which features the Use of Rome, comes from a Parisian workshop called the 'Bellemare group', which was active c 1530 and responsible for the illuminations of at least ten other Books of Hours (see Orth, Renaissance Manuscripts (2015), II, no. 52). These manuscripts are closel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1530
Extent:

Parchment codex

2796. Add MS 35320

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Title:
Pierre Louis de Valtan, Exposition of the Apostles' Creed
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a presentation copy of an Exposition of the Apostles' Creed, by Pierre Louis de Valtan (d. 1517), Archdeacon of Angers and later Bishop of Rieux. The text is written in rhymed Latin verse, with accompanying short prose texts placed as glosses in the margins. It features a dedi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1495
Extent:
1 volume

2797. Add MS 35324

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Title:
Drawings of funeral processions, 1557–1603
Scope & Content:
Drawings of funeral processions, mostly in Indian ink (opaque black); those of Lady Lumley and Elizabeth I are in colour. Originally in rolls, the drawings are now inlaid in cardboard. Volume XV of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's bequest to the British Museum. ff. 1r–6v: 'Funeral processions o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2798. Add MS 35331

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AUTOGRAPH DIARY of Walter Yonge, of Colyton, co. Devon (M.P. for Honiton in the Long Parliament), from 1627 to April, 1642, being a sequel to the volume (now Add. MS. 28,032) edited by G. Roberts (Camden Society, 1848). A further continuation, Sept. 1642-Dec. 1645, is in Add. MSS. 18,777-18,780....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1627-1642
Extent:
1 item

2799. Add MS 35830

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Title:
State letters and papers (Hardwick Papers vol. 482)
Scope & Content:
State letters and papers, principally the correspondence of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (1515/16-1571), diplomat and member of parliament. He was appointed ambassador to France in May 1559, two months before the death of King Henry II, and his letters give detailed accounts of his interviews wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1557-1561
Extent:
1 volume

2800. Add MS 35831

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Title:
State letters and papers (Hardwicke Papers vol. 483)
Scope & Content:
State letters and papers including the correspondence of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, diplomat and Member of Parliament (1515/16-1571) during his time as Ambassador in France, 1561-1564. f. 1 Letter from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Queen Elizabeth I: as Queen Elizabeth I is not satisfied with her pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1562-1599
Extent:
1 volume

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