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Union News, issue 268
Archive Item

Archive File
Jesus Sirach and a king (fol. 268v)
Archive Piece

Jesus Sirach and a king (fol. 268v)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'O' encloses a scene of Jesus ben Sirach speaking to a king. The border has two hybrids that are birds with a human head, one female, one male.

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Archive Print Item

Cicero in Catilinam Oratio I and Oratio IV. Vergil, Aeneid II, lines 268-401, and 588-804

Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Virgil; Reynolds, F; Thomas, W Jenkyn

1910

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Archive File

Ad Incensum Lucernae

1974

1974 Reduced photocopy of full score.

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shawl sample
Textile

shawl sample

19th century

Sample of stylised floral shawl border, woven within a sample of striped fabric.

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Archive Item

1951 94eb6739e2e268cba376862d2b097525,0,1.jpg

c. 1985 - 2017

Type: File System_File?: No File path: "D:\Bauman_extracted_complete\Opticals\Accrual 4 Box 6\Optical_02\Bierut Bolesław\1951 94eb6739e2e268cba376862d2b097525,0,1.jpg" Name: "1951 94eb6739e2e268cb...

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Archive File

Two photographs

1850-1980

268/1 B/w photograph of Duchess of Kent conferring honorary degree on DC, 12” x 15”

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Textile

5129 à 5237 [pattern book]

1930-1935

Hardback with blue and black mottled covers. Containing woven fabric samples, monochrome or with 2 colours. Some samples are unpatterned or speckled, others have woven patterning of stripes. plant mo...

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Textile

Été 1955 Envoi 1

Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1955

Softback with buff coloured covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples including samples for sports clothing. Patterning includes complex stripe designs, stars, mesh patterning, p...

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beaded ulos
Textile

ulos

late 20th Century

A cotton ulos with red side panels and a central area of black with thin yellow weft stripes. Multicoloured designs including crosses, diamonds and tumpals, are in supplementary weft using synthetic w...

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