MS 24 ) is a 12th century English illuminated manuscript bestiary that was first listed in 1542 in the inventory of the Old Royal Library at the Palace of Westminster.

They were joined in 1757 by the Royal Library, assembled by various British monarchs.

In 1757 King George II gave the Old Royal Library and with it the right to a copy of every book published in the country, thereby ensuring that the Museum's library would expand indefinitely.

The neoclassical architect, Sir Robert Smirke, was asked to draw up plans for an eastern extension to the Museum "... for the reception of the Royal Library, and a Picture Gallery over it ..." and put forward plans for today's quadrangular building, much of which can be seen today.

The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh and Sumerian treasures found in Royal Cemetery's at Ur of the Chaldees.

He also discovered the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, a large collection of cuneiform tablets of enormous importance.

Royal Library of Ashurbanipal:

Two illuminated Psalters, the Queen Mary Psalter ( British Library Ms. Royal 2B, vii ) and the Isabella Psalter ( State Library, Munich ), contain full Bestiary cycles.

It is now located at the Royal Library of Brussels ( the " Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier ").

For centuries it was stored in the Royal Library in Copenhagen but in 1971 it was returned to Iceland.

All four fragments are in the collection of the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark.

* Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum, from the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Danish and Latin.

* One of the versions in the Danish Royal Library

Eggertson's copy went to the Royal Library at Stockholm.

The three main manuscript sources for Irish mythology are the late 11th / early 12th century Lebor na hUidre which is in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, the early 12th century Book of Leinster in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and the Rawlinson manuscript B 502 ( Rawl.

Page of Etymologiae, Carolingian dynasty | Carolingian manuscript ( VIII century ), Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium

Today six Swedish libraries receive legal deposit copies, but only Lund and the Royal Library in Stockholm are required to keep everything for posterity.

A page showing Leonardo's study of a foetus in the womb ( c. 1510 ) Royal Library, Windsor Castle

These notebooks — originally loose papers of different types and sizes, distributed by friends after his death — have found their way into major collections such as the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the Louvre, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan which holds the twelve-volume Codex Atlanticus, and British Library in London which has put a selection from its notebook BL Arundel MS 263 online.

The city lived a period of particular splendour: the Biblioteca Palatina ( Palatine Library ), the Archaeological Museum, the Picture Gallery and the Botanical Garden were founded, together with the Royal Printing Works directed by Giambattista Bodoni.

The Royal Navy used Gatling guns against the Egyptians at Alexandria in 1882.

The remains of such catastrophes exist all over the world, and sites such as Alexandria and Port Royal now form important archaeological sites.

There is a drawing by Raphael in the Royal Collection of Leonardo's lost Leda and the Swan, from which he adapted the contrapposto pose of his own Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

Also, the Royal Library of Alexandria was once the largest in the world.

Changes in sea-level, because of local seismic events, such as the earthquakes that devastated Port Royal and Alexandria, or more widespread climatic or changes on a continental scale mean that some sites of human occupation that were once on dry land are now submerged.

The Royal Navy used searchlights in 1882 to prevent Egyptian forces from manning artillery batteries at Alexandria.

Alexandria was formed by Royal Charter on March 5, 1765, from portions of Bethlehem Township, and was incorporated as one of New Jersey's initial 104 townships by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.

This air campaign eventually succeeded in its objective, forcing the Royal Air Force to move its planes to Alexandria.

The Royal Navy's forces from Alexandria retained control of the waters around Crete, so any amphibious assault would be quickly decided by the nature of an air-versus-ship battle, making it a risky proposition at best.

There were Royal Navy seaports at Alexandria, Haifa, and Port Said.

In the mid-1930s, the headquarters of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet were moved from Malta, to Alexandria, Egypt.

" In 1882, the acclaimed Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone, ordered the Royal Navy to bombard Alexandria to recover the debts owed by the Egyptians to British investors.

Just after this gold rush, the town's layout as it is today was surveyed by the Royal Engineers and its Main Street tied into the original Cariboo Wagon Road or Old Cariboo Road to Fort Alexandria, a huge project undertaken as a toll road by Gustavus Blin Wright, one of the many entrepreneurial personalities of the early colony.

* June 14 – 16 – German and Italian aircraft join Italian surface warships and submarines in opposing Operation Harpoon, an Allied Malta resupply convoy from Gibraltar escorted by the British aircraft carriers and, and Operation Vigorous, a simultaneous resupply convoy from Alexandria, Egypt ; Royal Air Force and U. S. Army Air Forces aircraft from Malta and North Africa provide support to the convoys.

On 18 December 1941, he reached Alexandria in Sciré and launched the daring raid by three SLCs that heavily damaged the two Royal Navy battleships and and two other ships in the harbour.

Owing to its exposed position, close to a potentially hostile Italy, the British had moved the headquarters of the Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet from Valletta, Malta in the mid-1930s to Alexandria in October 1939.

These were the major factors why the Italians believed they could not beat the Royal Navy's fleet of aging battleships or keep them bottled up in Alexandria, despite having an apparently formidable navy themselves.

An urgent supply convoy from Gibraltar to Alexandria ( Operation Tiger ) coincided with reinforcements for the Mediterranean Fleet, two small convoys from Egypt to Malta, and 48 more Hurricanes flown off HMS Ark Royal and ( Operation Splice ).

Argyll changed hands in 1914 and the Alexandria factory was sold to the Royal Navy for torpedo production.

It opened April 13, 2010 and consolidates the women's health programs and services currently based at the Royal Alexandria Hospital into one building.

* 20: Spateston-Johnstone Centre-Paisley-Gallowhill ( via Elderslie and the Royal Alexandria Hospital )

* Royal Library of Alexandria-the renowned ancient library of Alexandria