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701. Add MS 43827 B

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Title:
Autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok, copied by Elizabeth Hickman
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok (b. 1526, d. 1613), an English businesswoman and Protestant exile during the Tudor period, written by her in c. 1610 when she was 84. Rose was the daughter of Sir William Lok (b. 1480, d. 1550), a gentleman usher to Hen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1667
Extent:
1 volume

702. Add MS 44839

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Title:
Chart of the Thames estuary drawn by Robert Adams, showing existing and proposed defences on the Thames, against the Spanish Armada
Scope & Content:
A pictorial chart of the Thames estuary, drawn in pen-and-ink with coloured wash, in 1588 by Robert Adams (b. 1540, d. 1595), architect and surveyor of buildings for Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603), and endorsed across the end, in a contemporary hand, 'Thamesis Descriptio'. The chart shows the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588
Extent:
1 roll

703. Add MS 45158 A

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Title:
‘Diary of Gertrude Bell, 1911.’
Scope & Content:
The first of two oblong duodecimo volumes containing abbreviated notes recorded by Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, during the course of a journey through Syria, Turkey and Iraq, from Damascus to Aleppo via Baghdad. The volume covers the period 9 February to 18 April 1911, covering Bell’s depart...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1911-18 Apr 1911
Extent:
1 volume (33 folios)

704. Add MS 45158 B

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Title:
‘Diary of Gertrude Bell, 1911.’
Scope & Content:
The second of two oblong duodecimo volumes containing abbreviated notes recorded by Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, during the course of a journey through Syria, Turkey and Iraq, from Damascus to Aleppo via Baghdad. The volume covers the period 19 April to 23 May 1911, covering the journey from...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Ancient, and Syriac
Date Range:
19 Apr 1911-23 May 1911
Extent:
1 volume (37 folios)

705. Add MS 45158 C

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Title:
Map of the area west of Ma‘arrat an Nu‘mān, Syria; list of buildings for Dr David George Hogarth
Scope & Content:
Map of the area west of Ma‘arrat an Nu‘mān, Syria (f 1), and handwritten list of buildings, created by Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, for which plans and notes were required by David George Hogarth (f 2). The list includes: Qasr al-Azarak [Qasr Azraq], Qasr al-Amra [Qasr Amra], Qasr al-Kharane...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

706. Add MS 45158 C, f 1

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Title:
Sketch map of the area west of the Ma‘arrat an Nu‘mān, Syria
Scope & Content:
Sketch-map of the area west of Ma‘arrat an Nu‘mān, Syria, drawn by Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell. The map indicates the names and locations of settlements. Aside from an outline in the northwest quarter of the map, which may represent a body of water, no other topographic details are shown. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 map

707. Add MS 46203

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Title:
Missal
Scope & Content:
This late 12th-century Cistercian manuscript contains a ‘Winter missal’, so-called because its Temporale begins on Pentecost XIX (the 19th Sunday after Trinity) and runs to Quinquagesima. The style of the decorated initials suggests that the manuscript was produced at a Cistercian abbey in North...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

708. Add MS 46204

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Title:
Worcester cartulary fragments (‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’)
Scope & Content:
One leaf and two strips of a leaf from a Worcester cartulary. Another portion of this item is Cotton Nero E. i, pt. 2, ff. 181–184, the original position of the complete leaf being between ff. 182 and 183, the strips coming from an earlier part of the cartulary. Thought based on its size to have ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:

3 parchment fragments

709. Add MS 46487

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Title:
The Sherborne Cartulary, a collection of charters and other documents; Passions, Gospels and liturgical texts
Scope & Content:
Cartulary and documents of the Benedictine abbey of Sherborne, Dorset, containing copies of royal, papal and episcopal charters in Latin and Old English, followed by account of the Passion by the four Evangelists, Gospels, collects, blessings and other ceremonies. The boundaries of lands are wri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

710. Add MS 46701

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Title:
Cartulary of Stixwould Priory
Scope & Content:
The Cartulary of the Cistercian nunnery of Stixwould, Lincolnshire, containing transcripts of royal, episcopal, noble and private charters, arranged by location and usually with the witnesses omitted. The latest dated charter in the original hand is an agreement with Croyland Abbey in 1263 (f. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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