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1551. Stowe MS 73

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 73
Title:
A genealogical chronicle of the kings of England to Edward IV
Scope & Content:
A genealogical chronicle, formerly in concertina format, now a codex. Contents: An abbreviated version in English of a genealogical chronicle from Adam to the beginning of the reign of Edward IV, of the type known as the 'Considerans' chronicle, named from the opening words of the Latin prol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1461-1499
Extent:

1 volume

1552. Stowe MS 555

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 555
Title:
An inventory of jewels and other goods of Queen Elizabeth I, 1574-1594
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: An introduction to Queen Elizabeth I’s inventory of jewels and other goods. It explains that the inventory was made or begun on 14 March 1574 and lists ‘all suche parcelles of the Quenis Majesties Juelles, plate and other Stuff as remaine [...] in the custodie and chardge of J...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[13 Mar 1574-12 Aug 1594]
Extent:

1 volume

1553. Stowe MS 556

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 556
Title:
An inventory of jewels and other goods of Queen Elizabeth I, 1596
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: An introduction to Queen Elizabeth I’s inventory of jewels and other goods. It explains that the inventory was made or begun on 20 February 1596 and lists ‘all suche percelles of the Queenes Majesties Jewelles and plate and other stuffe as did remayne [...] in the custodie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[20 Feb 1596]
Extent:
1 volume

1554. Stowe MS 594

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 594
Title:
William Bruges’ Garter Book
Scope & Content:
The first armorial for the Order of the Garter, containing portraits of the knights founder: f. 5v: Saint George, as patron of the order of the Garter, together with another knight, possibly William Bruges. f. 7v: Edward III of England. f. 8r: Henry Duke of Lancaster. f. 8v: Jean de Grailly...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1430s
Extent:

1 volume

1555. Stowe MS 776

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 776
Title:
Cartulary of the estates of John de Vaux and his daughter and co-heiress Petronilla de Narford
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a cartulary, containing copies of charters and deeds in Latin, relating to the estates of the English nobleman Sir John de Vaux, alias Vallibus (b. c. 1220, d. 1287), in Norfolk and Suffolk, and particularly the inheritance of his daughter and coheiress Pernel, also known as P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1556. Stowe MS 956

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 956
Title:
John Croke, Psalms in English verse
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1540
Extent:
1 volume

1557. Stowe MS 1065

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1065
Title:
Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: A physician's portable almanac consisting of: ff. 1r-4v: Calendar, with tables of cycles calculated from 1482 to 1520; f. 5r-v: Indictiones, Festa Mobilia, Tabula planetarum; f. 5v: Tabula lunæ, and Homo Signorum (the influence of the signs of the Zodiac on man); f. 6r: Homo ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1482
Extent:

6 parchment folios, each folded into eight parts

1558. Stowe MS 1066

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1066
Title:
Calendar and almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A set of religious devotions in English, written by Edward Seymour (b. c. 1500, d. 1552), duke of Somerset, from the Tower of London, on the day before his execution, 22 January 1522. f. 2r-v: Table of contents. f. 3r-v: Calendar. ff. 4r-31v: An almanac, containing a ser...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1540-1550
Extent:
1 volume

1559. Stowe MS 1067

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1067
Title:
Bestiary
Scope & Content:
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). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

1560. W3219(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
W3219(2)
Title:
'Passing Beechy-Head.' Plate 2 from T. and W. Daniell, A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the way of China.' Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. London: 1810. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840), and Daniell, William (1769-1837)
Scope & Content:
'Passing Beechy-Head.' Plate 2 from T. and W. Daniell, A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the way of China.' Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. London: 1810.. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840), and Daniell, William (1769-1837)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1810
Extent:
1 Item

1561. WD354

Reference (shelfmark):
WD354
Title:
The Mary Anne at anchor off Portsmouth sketched from Binstead (Isle of Wight). July 1827. Artist(s): James, John Thomas (1786-1828)
Scope & Content:
The ‘Mary Anne’ at anchor off Portsmouth sketched from Binstead (Isle of Wight). July 1827. Inscribed on mount and on back in ink: ‘Binstead, Isle of Wight, July 1827. Mary Anne at anchor off Portsmouth.’ Pen-and-ink and wash; 5.25 by 8 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1827
Extent:
1 Item

1562. WD1282

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1282
Title:
An English landscape, 24 July 1845. Artist(s): Prinsep, Edward Augustus (1828-1900)
Scope & Content:
An English landscape, 24 July 1845. Inscribed on front in ink: (illegible), ‘July 24, '45.’ Water-colour and pen-and-ink; 9 by 14 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1845
Extent:
1 Item

1563. WD1364

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1364
Title:
Album of 27 drawings; 26 portraits and caricatures of members of the India Office Social Club. 1901-4. Artist(s): Wickham, William Allen (1857-1938)
Scope & Content:
27 drawings (60 pages); 26 portraits and caricatures of members of the India Office Social Club. 1901-4. Some portraits signed: ‘W.A.W’. and inscribed with subject and notes. Pencil, pen-and-ink, and wash; size of volume 14.5 by 10 ins. Presented. Note: A menu for the twelfth dinner in 1907...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1901-1904
Extent:
1 Item

1564. WD1419

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1419
Title:
View of Kenilworth Castle (England). Artist(s): Trapaud, Elisha (1750-1828)
Scope & Content:
View of Kenilworth Castle (England). c.1807. Inscribed on front in pencil: ‘Kenilworth Castle.’ Pencil and wash; 13 by 19.75 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1807
Extent:
1 Item

1565. WD2439

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2439
Title:
Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill (England). Artist(s): Winny, Thomas Herbert (1861-1960)
Scope & Content:
Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill (England). 1926. Inscribed on front in water-colour: ‘T.H.W.’ Water-colour; 16.5 by 24.5ins. Presented by the artist, 1926. Note: Cooper's Hill was a college for the training of civil engineers from 1871 to 1906. Winny had been connected with...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1926
Extent:
1 Item

1566. WD2440

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2440
Title:
Front of the East India House, Leadenhall Street, London. Classical design with Ionic columns, and pediment with sculptured tympanum, surmounted by statues. c. 1798
Scope & Content:
Front of the East India House, Leadenhall Street, London. Classical design with Ionic columns, and pediment with sculptured tympanum, surmounted by statues. c.1798. Pen-and-ink and wash; 18.25 by 31 ins. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded. Note: This is probably one of the original dra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1798
Extent:
1 Item

1567. WD2442

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2442
Title:
The Inner Court of the India Office, King Charles Street, London, decorated for a reception on 4 July 1902
Scope & Content:
The Inner (Durbar) Court of the India Office, King Charles Street, London, decorated for a reception on 4 July 1902. Water-colour; 381 by 251 ins. circumstances of acquisition unrecorded. Note: The drawing appears to illustrate a scheme of decoration by the Ministry of Works for a reception h...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1902
Extent:
1 Item

1568. WD2768

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2768
Title:
Scene with shipping off Gravesend (England). Artist(s): Parish, Charles Samuel Pollock (1822-1897)
Scope & Content:
Scene with shipping off Gravesend (England). 1845. Inscribed on front in pencil: ‘C.P. Ship ... 1845. Gravesend’. Pencil; 6 by 8 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1845
Extent:
1 Item

1569. WD3675

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3675
Title:
River banks, England. Artist(s): Brown, Percy (1872-1955)
Scope & Content:
River banks, England. Inscribed: ‘Percy Brown’. Water-colour; 30.4 by 38.5 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1929
Extent:
1 Item

1570. WD3676

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3676
Title:
Water meadows with cows, England. Artist(s): Brown, Percy (1872-1955)
Scope & Content:
Water meadows with cows, England. Inscribed: ‘Percy Brown’. Water-colour; 24 by 34.5 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1929
Extent:
1 Item

1571. WD3800

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3800
Title:
Fortified gateway with a soldier on guard and two sailors on the parapet, probably England. Artist(s): Parker, William Neville (1774-1853)
Scope & Content:
Fortified gateway with a soldier on guard and two sailors on the parapet, probably England c.1810. Inscribed on original backing: ‘Capt. Parker’. Water-colour; 38 by 26 cm. Presented by Professor J.P. Brenan, 1980.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 Item

1572. WD4140

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4140
Title:
Summer landscape. Artist(s): Brown, Percy (1872-1955)
Scope & Content:
Summer landscape
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1929
Extent:
1 Item

1573. WD4141

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4141
Title:
Summer landscape. Artist(s): Brown, Percy (1872-1955)
Scope & Content:
Summer landscape
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1929
Extent:
1 Item

1574. WD4142

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4142
Title:
Summer landscape. Artist(s): Brown, Percy (1872-1955)
Scope & Content:
Summer landscape
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1929
Extent:
1 Item

1575. WD4143

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4143
Title:
Summer landscape. Artist(s): Brown, Percy (1872-1955)
Scope & Content:
Summer landscape
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1929
Extent:
1 Item

1576. WD4144

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4144
Title:
Summer landscape. Artist(s): Brown, Percy (1872-1955)
Scope & Content:
Summer landscape
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1929
Extent:
1 Item

1577. WD4431

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4431
Title:
Gabled house in a summer landscape, England. Artist(s): Home, Robert (1834-1896)
Scope & Content:
Gabled house in a summer landscape, England. Inscribed: ‘Elm tree at Rumwell Lodge. R.H. 9/80.’ Pencil; 15.5 by 28.8 cm. Bequeathed by Mr. E.P. Westby in 1996, along with WD4426-4430, F888 (Robert Home's miniature painting cabinet) and miscellaneous Home family papers (WD4431(Additional)). ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880
Extent:
1 Item

1578. Yates Thompson MS 52

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 52
Title:
Wycliffite Psalter and Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Modern note on the removal of a leaf, pastedown. f. 3r: Erased ownership inscription. f. 3v: Ownership inscriptions and summary of the volume’s contents, 15th and 18th century, Latin and English. ff. 4r-9v: Calendar, Latin. ff. 10r-45v: Book of Hours. ff. 46r-163r: Wycliff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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