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2491. IOR/V/27/856/59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/V/27/856/59
Title:
Punjab. Plague Department, Punjab plague manual (Lahore, 1909)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 volume

2492. IOR/V/27/857/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/V/27/857/2
Title:
Duncan Stewart, Report on Small-pox in Calcutta, 1833-34 - 1837-38 - 1843-44, and Vaccination in Bengal, from 1827 to 1844 (Calcutta: Bengal Military Orphan Press, 1844)
Scope & Content:
Contains plan of Calcutta showing the Police Divisions and the number of Thannahs in each; plus tabulated statistics.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844
Extent:
1 volume (v, 264, xxiii pp.)

2493. IOR/V/27/859/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/V/27/859/5
Title:
John Maitland, Elephantiasis and allied disorders (Madras, 1891)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 volume

2494. K.10.a.17.(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
K.10.a.17.(3)
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ‘God is our Refuge’, K. 20; 1765. Partly autograph and partly in the hand of Leopold Mozart.
Scope & Content:
A short setting (1 page) of the words ‘God is our Refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble’, from Psalm xlvi, for four voices, in score. With the heading ‘Chorus by Mr Wolfgang Mozart, 1765.’ Written at the age of nine years for, and presented to, the British Museum on the occasion of...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1765
Extent:
1 item

2495. Kings MS 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 5
Title:
Biblia Pauperum
Scope & Content:
Biblia Pauperum, a picture Bible including a series of images of the life of Christ with Old Testament prefigurations, with three miniatures on every recto. Each miniature of the Christological cycle is accompanied by bust-length portraits of apostles and prophets holding scrolls and corresponds...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1395-1400
Extent:

1 volume

2496. Kings MS 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 9
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (''Anne Boleyn''s Book of Hours'')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-255v: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum; ff. 256r-303v: Devotional miscellany. Decoration: The Book of Hours (ff. 1-255) may have been illuminated by a Flemish artist, active in the Tudor court (Blackhouse, Books (1985), p. 79). The manuscript has also been attributed to a Paris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:

1 volume

2497. Kings MS 24

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 24
Title:
P. Vergilius Maro, Opera (‘the King’s Virgil’)
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-16v: P. Vergilius Maro, Bucolica; ff. 17r-58: P. Vergilius Maro, Georgica, by P. Ovidius Naso [pseudo-], verse, 'In primaum librum Georgicon Virgilii' (f. 16v); ff. 58v-244v: P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneis, preceded by P. Ovidius Naso [pseudo-], verses, 'quae contineant duodecim Aeneidos l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1483-1485
Extent:

1 volume

2498. Lansdowne MS 204

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 204
Title:
John Hardyng, Chronicle (first version)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the first version of the Chronicle of John Hardyng (b. 1378, d. 1465), a former soldier and spy for King Henry V (r. 1413-1422). It was produced in Lincolnshire or the East Midlands in the middle of the 15th century and was probably commissione...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1440-1450
Extent:

1 volume

2499. Lansdowne MS 420

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 420
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illuminated Psalter that was most likely produced in the diocese of London in the 1220s. The manuscript’s style of decoration appears to be influenced by contemporary French Psalters (Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts (1982), pp. 86-87). Of special interest are the man...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1220s
Extent:

1 volume

2500. Lansdowne MS 441

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 441
Title:
Indenture between Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, and John Islip, Abbot of Westminster Abbey, concerning the foundation and support for her chantry
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an original indenture between Margaret Beaufort (b. 1443, d. 1509), Countess of Richmond and mother of King Henry VII (r. 1485-1509), and John Islip (b. 1464, d. 1532), Abbot of Westminster Abbey, concerning the foundation and support for her chantry, made on 2 March 150...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2 Mar 1506
Extent:

1 volume

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