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527601. 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

527602. 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

527603. Topham Ch 19

Reference (shelfmark):
Topham Ch 19
Title:
Receipt of Dorothy Comberford, abbess of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate, London, for the lease of the rectory of Hartington
Scope & Content:
Receipt by Dorothy Comberford, abbess of the Abbey of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate, London, confirming she and the convent had received from George [Talbot] (1468-1538), earl of Shropshire [Shrewsbury], £26 30s 4d, for the lease of the rectory of Hartington, Derbyshire, and the hou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1526
Extent:
1 leaf

527604. WD34

Reference (shelfmark):
WD34
Title:
'The main pass, Aden.' By Sir Henry Yule (1820-1899)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View, looking south, of a mountainous landscape through the Main Pass at Aden, the main route into Crater, towards a hill riddled with caves, one of which is likely to be the cave reputed to hold the tomb of Abel. A steep slope or series of steps leads towards the pass a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 pen and ink and wash drawing on watercolour paper

527605. WD36

Reference (shelfmark):
WD36
Title:
'Babelmandel', by Sir Henry Yule (1820-1899)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: Maritime view in the straits of Babelmandel [Bab-el-Mandeb]. A steamer is visible at left. Temporal context: This drawing was likely made during Henry Yule’s return journey to India with his new wife, Anna Maria White, in 1844. Inscriptions: Recto: Lower left, pen a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 watercolour and ink drawing on watercolour paper

527606. WD36

Reference (shelfmark):
WD36
Title:
'Babelmandel', by Sir Henry Yule (1820-1899)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: Maritime view in the straits of Babelmandel [Bab-el-Mandeb]. A steamer is visible at left. Temporal context: This drawing was likely made during Henry Yule’s return journey to India with his new wife, Anna Maria White, in 1844. Inscriptions: Recto: Lower left, pen a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 watercolour and ink drawing on watercolour paper

527607. WD37

Reference (shelfmark):
WD37
Title:
'Gibel Tir', by Sir Henry Yule (1820-1899)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: Maritime view in the Red Sea, at the northwest of the Bab el-Mandeb strait, of Gibel Tir [Jebel Al-Tair], meaning ‘bird mountain’. Temporal context: This drawing was likely made during Henry Yule’s return journey to India with his new wife, Anna Maria White, in 1844. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 watercolour, pencil and ink drawing on watercolour paper

527608. WD1348

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1348
Title:
'From Calcutta to Bombay (by B. I. steamer).' By: Kate Toynbee (fl. 1879-80)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape views of locations along the Indian coast from Calcutta to Bombay, as well as at Aden and along the Red Sea coast. The watercolour drawings are rendered directly onto watercolour paper and captioned in ink, usually on the verso of the preceding...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1879-Jan 1880
Extent:
Album of 29 drawings of views along the Indian coast from Calcutta to Bombay, and of views in Bihar, Calcutta, Aden and Suez.

527609. WD1348

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1348
Title:
'From Calcutta to Bombay (by B. I. steamer).' By: Kate Toynbee (fl. 1879-80)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape views of locations along the Indian coast from Calcutta to Bombay, as well as at Aden and along the Red Sea coast. The watercolour drawings are rendered directly onto watercolour paper and captioned in ink, usually on the verso of the preceding...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1879-Jan 1880
Extent:
Album of 29 drawings of views along the Indian coast from Calcutta to Bombay, and of views in Bihar, Calcutta, Aden and Suez.

527610. WD3110

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3110
Title:
Album of 154 drawings, most made in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801-63)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains one hundred and fifty-four landscape views and studies in watercolour and pencil of locations and subjects encountered between 1834 and 1839. The majority are inscribed with notes, dates and captions by the artist. Some inscriptions are in a later hand. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1834-39
Extent:
Album of 154 drawings of views in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan, 1 typescript note lightly tipped into a leather-bound album

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