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Baruch writing (fol. 334v)
[ca. 1260]
Initial 'H' encloses the scene of the prophet Baruch writing at a lectern, holding a quill and a quill knife. An initial 'L' is decorated with a hybrid of an animal and foliage, and a hybrid of a bird...
Cleric writing (fol. 408r)
[ca. 1260]
Initial 'L' encloses a scene of a tonsured cleric writing at a lectern.
Denomination: follis
Date(s): 326-328
Issuer/creator: Constantine II (317-37)
Place: Thessaloniki
Material: copper alloy
Jerome (fol. 2r)
[ca. 1260]
Initial 'F' encloses the scene of St. Jerome writing, holding a quill and a sharpening knife. He wears a tonsure, a black cape and white garments. The margin contains a stork-like bird and a head of a...
Denomination: sestertius
Date(s): 222-231
Issuer/creator: Severus Alexander (Augustus)
Place: Rome
Material: Copper alloy
Denomination: aureus
Date(s): 264
Issuer/creator: Postumus (260-69)
Place: Lyons
Material: gold
cuneiform tablet
5th century BCE
1of 6 Babylonian tables described in a letter from the British Museum to the collector Mr James Ogden. Inscription on all sides, including a profile of a head with laurel wreath.
[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...
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...
Memorandum of delivery of three deeds
31 Mar 1292
Three deeds delivered by Matilda, who was the wife of Edmund de Goldale: Gift with Warranty 1. Simon de Roppel 2. William de Ranevyll Deed of gift. Symon de Roppel' [Ropsley, nr Grantham, Lincs...
Key Texts Box 01
1968 -2004
Key texts from the Women's Liberation Movement. (pamphlets and papers; selected by FAN trustees in 2022) 1968 Notes from the first year June 1968 New York 1968 Draft Manifesto for Socialist Women...