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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho C I/1
Title:: Gospel-book; bull of Pope Sergius
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an imperfect Gospel-book, written in Old English (the so-called 'West Saxon' version of the Gospels). It was copied in the 1st half of the 11th century. In the mid-11th century, an Old English translation of a bull of Pope Sergius which benefitted Malmesbury Abbey was ad...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 1st half of the 11th century-Mid 11th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho C I/2
Title:: Old English translation of parts of Gregory the Great's Dialogi; Old English translations of three Lives from Vitas patrum; letter of Boniface to Eadburga; a homily; three homilies of Ælfric (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This codex includes various theological and hagiographical material, along with a letter and some homilies, all in Old English or translated into Old English: ff. 1r–61v: Old English translation of parts of Gregory the Great's Dialogi, including a metrical preface, introductory lines, Books 1-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century-Mid 11th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1
Title:: Historia tripartita; Usuard, Martyrologium; conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an early 14th-century copy of the Historia tripartita compiled by Epiphanius and a copy of Usuard's Martyrologium and the conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, copied in the late 11th or early 12th century, with 12th- and 13th-century additions.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 11th century- 1st quarter 14th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2
Title:: Letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester; Quadrilogus II; De indulgencia apud assisium; Coronatio Edwardi secundi; La maniere comment le roy sera coronee; Life of St Edward the Confessor; Life of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury; Life of Edmund Rich, archbishop of Canterbury
Scope & Content:: This codex contains: f. 157: a letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester, copied in the 1st quarter of the 13th century; ff 158-228: a vita of Thomas Becket known as Quadrilogus II (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8194), copied in the 1st half of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3941/2
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:: The second of two volumes of the Etymologiae (Etymologies) of Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the text. The first volume is Harley MS 3941/1. Contents: ff. 140r-151r: Isidore of S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Breton and Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4804/1
Title:: Prologue on Psalms attributed to St Augustine; Book of Psalms including Gilbert of Poitiers, Commentarius in Psalterium
Scope & Content:: The first volume of two separate volumes with continuous foliation: Harley MS 4804/1 (ff. 1-167v), and Harley MS 4804/2 (ff. 168-336v). The first volume is a book of Psalms containing the commentary on the Psalms written by Gilbert of Poitiers (b. after 1085, d. 1154), copied in Chartres durin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/96/1953
Title:: Introduction of inoculation in Trichinopoly District, and the extension of the practice throughout the Madras Presidency
Scope & Content:: Government of Madras award 500 pagodas to Surgeon James Richardson for his work in furthering the practice of inoculation in Trichinopoly, introduced several years prior by Nicol Mein. Order than an abstract report regarding inoculation be published in the vernacular languages and circulated. L...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Aug 1800-Feb 1801
Extent:: 110 pages

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/153/2613
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Scope & Content:: Introduction in the Company's territories of the practice of vaccination against smallpox. Establishment of a vaccination hospital at Madras under the superintendence of William Horsman (includes statistics of patients).
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Oct 1802-May 1803
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/169/2985
Title:: Measures taken to introduce smallpox vaccination in Bengal Presidency
Scope & Content:: Measures taken to introduce the practice of vaccination against smallpox in the Bengal Presidency. Cowpox to be introduced to Fort Marlborough [Bencoolen], Sumatra, by orphan children sent out from Bengal. Question of introducing vaccination to New South Wales and China.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jan 1803-Aug 1804
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/186/3906
Title:: Report on the state and progress of vaccine inoculation in Bengal during the year 1804
Scope & Content:: The Bengal Government forwards a copy of John Shoolbred's 'Report on the State and Progress of Vaccine Inoculation in Bengal during the year 1804' to the Court of Directors (includes a printed copy of the report).
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jul 1805
Extent:: 1 file

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