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2. Add Ch 54007
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- Add Ch 54007
- Title:
- Grant of Eleanor of Aquitaine, widowed Queen of England, to Fontevraud Abbey of a house in Poitiers
- Scope & Content:
- Eleanor of Aquitaine (b. c. 1122, d. 1204), Duchess of Aquitaine and widowed Queen of England (the widow of King Henry II (r. 1154-1189)), grants a house in Poitiers to the abbey of Fontevraud (Fontevrault), France. The house is granted for the support of Roger, her chaplain, and his successors ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1199
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
3. Add Ch 76757
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- Add Ch 76757
- Title:
- Grant by Charles VII of France of a dower for Margaret Stewart, daughter of James I of Scotland, for her proposed marriage to Louis, Charles’ son
- Scope & Content:
- Grant by King Charles VII of France promising annual rents and a cash dower for Margaret Stewart, daughter of James I of Scotland, for her proposed marriage to Louis, Charles’ son and dauphin of Vienne, with a note indicating that the matter was discussed in the king’s council. Given at Poitier...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 12 Mar 1429
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
4. Add MS 4848
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- Add MS 4848
- Title:
- 'LA DISCIPLINE ECCLESIASTIQUE des Eglises reformées de France. C'est à dire L'ordre par lequel elles sont conduittes et gouvernées'; 1609
- Scope & Content:
- The main work (ff. 3-44b) consists of fourteen chapters, at the end of which is a list of the National Synods 1559-1609, with those of 1612 and 1614 added in a later hand. For a similar MS, carrying the list of Synods down to 1637, see Harley MS. 3980. The second part contains accounts of the tr...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 1609
- Extent:
- 1 item
5. Add MS 23618
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- Add MS 23618
- Title:
- DRAWINGS and plans of battles, sieges, etc., chiefly executed by Lieut.-Colonel C[harles] Hamilton Smith, viz.: 1. "Order of Battle of the British Combined Army in August 1794," f. 2. 2. "Position of St. Jean de Luz [in the Pyrenees] as occupied by the French Army under the Duke of Dalmatia, 10 Nov. 1813," f. 4. 3. "Bequis Bay [at the mouth of the Nile] with the situations of the English and French fleets on the 1. 2. and 3. of August, 1798," f. 5. 4. "Plan of the battle of Jemappes [i...
- Scope & Content:
- Navy; England: Plans of naval battles, by Col. C. H. Smith: 19th cent. Military Tactics: Plans of battles and sieges, by Col. C. H. Smith: 19th cent. Maps and Plans: Miscellaneous maps and plans: 17th-19th centt. Charles Hamilton Smith, Lieutenant -Colonel: Military and naval drawings, and pl...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and German
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
6. Add MS 36441
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- Add MS 36441
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- BUCKLER DRAWINGS. Vol. LXXXVII. (ff. 153). Drawings of details from English and foreign (chiefly French) churches. includes: ff. 2-5 Stanton Lacy, Shropshire: Plans and drawings of church: 1874, 19th cent. f. 7 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Drawing of the tower-arch of St. Benedict's church: 19th...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 18th century-19th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
7. Add MS 37539
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- Add MS 37539
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- No. I. Cromlechs, dolmens and Stone Age remains, arranged topographically. ff. 899. includes: f. 1 County of Cornwall: Illustrations of Stone and Bronze Age remains in, by J. Romilly Allen: 19th cent.f.3 Boscawen Woon, Cornwall: Photograph of stones at: 19th cent.f. 4 Illogan, Cornwall: ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Swedish
- Date Range:
- Unspecified
- Extent:
- 1 item
8. Add MS 38133
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- Add MS 38133
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- COLLECTIONS, genealogical, legal, and historical. Sir Thomas Phillipps (see his Catal. Manuscriptorum under no. 3765, and Collectanea Topogr. et Geneal. vol. i, p. 20) regarded the collection as made by Robert Aske, whose name occurs several times. Internal evidence (see below, esp. art. 11) mak...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
9. Seal XCVII.41
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Seal XCVII.41
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- Convent of St. Savin in Poitiers, xiiith cent. Poitiers, France: Impression of seal of the convent of St. Savin in: 13th cent.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
10. Stowe MS 174
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 174
- Title:
- State papers and correspondence of Sir Thomas Edmondes, 1613-1614
- Scope & Content:
- Volume 9 of the Edmondes Papers (Stowe MS 166-177). State papers and correspondence of Sir Thomas Edmondes (d. 1639), diplomat, during his embassy to France (1610-1617). The correspondence is principally concerned with the negotiations for the marriage of Prince Charles with the Princess Christi...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Italian
- Date Range:
- 26 Mar 1613-8 Jul 1614
- Extent:
- 1 volume