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1711. Stowe MS 1084

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Stowe MS 1084
Title:
Scope & Content:
TRANSCRIPTS Of papal bulls relating to England, 1476-1533, most of the originals being now Stowe Charters 580-600 (see below). According to a note on f. 2, these transcripts were collated by Peter Le Neve, Norroy, in 1717, with the originals then in the possession of James Gibson, Town Clerk of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1712. Stowe MS 1085

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Stowe MS 1085
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Scope & Content:
DESCRIPTIONS and transcripts, made by or for Thomas Astle, of Anglo-Saxon charters in his own possession or among the Cotton MSS. in the British Museum. The name of John Lewis, as copyist, is inscribed on f. 91 b, with the date Dec. 1766. The volume formerly contained Astle's original charters a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1766
Extent:
1 item

1713. Stowe Or 1

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Stowe Or 1
Title:
al-Qurʼān القرآن
Scope & Content:
Subject: Qurʼan--Manuscripts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1714. Stowe Or 2

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Stowe Or 2
Title:
al-Qurʼān القرآن
Scope & Content:
Subject: Qurʼan--Manuscripts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1715. Stowe Or 17A

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Stowe Or 17A
Title:
Album of plans and elevations of the Taj Mahal and other buildings in Agra.
Scope & Content:
Album of 25 plans and elevations of the Taj Mahal and other buildings in Agra laid down in an album, commissioned by Lady Nugent 1812. By Agra draughtsmen, 1812-15. The drawings are of varying sizes, some larger than the album page. The standard views are enclosed within thick and thin black ru...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1750-1800
Extent:
1 Item

1716. Stowe Or 17A

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Stowe Or 17A
Title:
Album of drawings of the Taj Mahal and other Mughal monuments of Agra, commissioned by Lady Nugent.
Scope & Content:
By Agra draughtsmen, 1812-15. The drawings are of varying sizes, some larger than the album page. The standard views are enclosed within thick and thin black rules. The drawings of details unique to this album tend to run off the page without rules. Another feature unique to this album is th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1812
Extent:
1 Item

1717. Stowe Or 20

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Stowe Or 20
Title:
Hikayet-i arba'in subh u mesa - حكايت اربعين صبح و مسا
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of the well-known tale entitled in Arabic Ḥikāyat arbaᶜīn ṣubḥ wa masāᵓ,by Aḥmad Maṣrī. The story is also commonly known as The Story of the Forty Viziers (Hikayet-i Kırk Vezir or Kırk Vezir Hikayesi). It is an expansion of an old Indian tale, ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 171 ff

1718. Stowe Or 21

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Stowe Or 21
Title:
[Ottoman land transfer document]
Scope & Content:
This scroll contains a nişan-i şerif transferring the timar (military fief) Szent Tamás in the district of Temesvár, from Kâtip Ali, on his resignation, to his son Mehmet. It is addressed to Yusuf, Beylerbey of Temesvár. The document contains a lavishly decorated tuğra of Sultan Murad IV in go...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1037
Extent:
1 text, 2 ff

1719. Stowe Or 25

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Stowe Or 25
Title:
Kammavācā
Scope & Content:
Kammavācā, Ch. I-IX. Numbered ပ-ဖဲ (with ပါ and ပု omitted).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pali
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume; 16 folios

1720. Stowe Or 26 A

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Stowe Or 26 A
Title:
Kammavācā
Scope & Content:
Kammavācā manuscript. Numbered က-ကား.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pali
Date Range:
1st half of 18th century
Extent:
1 volume; 12 folios