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Seated figure of a goddess
2500BCE-500 CE
A framed painting on plaster, labelled: "Seated figure of a goddess (Sekhet?), the head surmounted by a disc round which is twined the solar uraeus. Before her stands a figure with upraised arms, mak...
Foliate initial (fol. 1r)
[ca. 1100-1150]
9-line initial 'I' composed of foliage, in red outline, decorated with a light blue strip of paint.
Photographs of pages from Pierpont Morgan Lib MS. 23
10th century
Two photographs of facing pages and one photograph of a single opening from a tenth-century gospel-book probably commissioned by Oswald, Archbishop of York 971-992, to replace the gospel-book commissi...
[Latin Bible]
Eden, Sir Robert Johnson (1774-1844); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor; Sams, Joseph
13th century
Manuscript in Latin in Gothic bookhand (textura) on parchment, containing the text of the Old and New Testaments. Decoration: Minimal decoration, but occasional fine decorated capitals in red and blue...