Manuscripts
A collection of papers pertaining to Elizabeth I's commission of 1580 for the mustering of horses suitable for military service and breeding in the county of Oxfordshire
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1549-1580
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A collection of 946 items from 1537 to 1580, it consists of letters, manuscripts and documents, all in Spanish, documenting the early history of Peru, including Francisco Pizarro's civil war with Diego de Almagro and the pacification of the country by Pedro de la Gasca. It also includes material pertaining to the Catholic Church in Peru; missionaries; the conquest of Chile; the Native people of Peru; and enslavement of Indigenous peoples. There is material regarding the cities of Arequipa, Cuzco, Lima, and Quito. There are letters and decrees of Charles V and Philip II, letters of Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisco Pizarro, reports of Pedro de la Gasca, and Pedro de Valdivia's account of the conquest of Chile. Persons represented in the collection include: Juan de Acosta, Pascual de Andagoya, Francisco de Carvajal, Charles V, Gonzalo Ferǹndez de Oviedo y Valďs, Philip II, Hernando Pizarro, Pedro de Puelles, Pedro de Soria, Cris̤tbal Vaca de Castro, and Pedro de Valdivia. Also included are paper facsimiles of the original material and two 19th century volumes of transcriptions of the collection (the transcriptions are not in chronological order).
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Ditchley Park ; Oxfordshire : A historic house with a contemporary purpose ; official guide
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Publisher: English Life Publications, Ltd. (Derby, England) Notes: A color illustrated guide to Ditchley house and estate in Oxfordshire, a location used by Churchill several times over the war years. There is a photograph on p. 23 of a bust of Churchill by Angela Conner.
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Oxfordshire
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This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.
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Oxfordshire
Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.
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James Madison, Washington, D.C., commission to William Clark, Ninian Edwards, Auguste Chouteau :
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Appointing Governor of Missouri Territory William Clark, Governor of Illinois Territory Ninian Edwards, and Auguste Chouteau of the Missouri Territory as commissioners with full power to conference and sign treaties with Indian nations situated on the Mississippi River. Countersigned by James Monroe as Secretary of State.
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[Paper-white narcissus]
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A botanical album created by Mary Parker, Countess of Macclesfield; she started the album in 1756 when she was 30 years of age. Flower painting had become a fashionable occupation for the wives and daughters of the great houses of England and Mary Parker achieved exceptional ability under the tutelage of Georg Ehret. The album contains 48 watercolor and gouache paintings on parchment; depicted are both sides of the plant's leaves and also shown are more than one reproductive stage for each specimen: with the early formation of the blossom, the growing petals, and the full expression of the flower. The images in the album depict numerous plant specimens, sometimes with butterflies and other insects, most likely local to the Macclesfield estate, Shirburn Castle, in Oxfordshire. Many of the illustrations are identified by names predating Carl Linnaeus' binomial plant nomenclature in his "Species Plantarum" (1753), while other notations on the illustrations include Linnaeus' names. The album is bound in a contemporary, richly gilt morocco wallet binding, with interior green silk ties; the binding is likely by Richard Montagu. The pages in the album are marked with the Macclesfield armorial blind stamp. It has a lock and key fastening, and while the original key is present, the lock has been deactivated by a professional restorer, please do not attempt to use the key; also present is a red velvet bookmark.
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