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Total number of records: 19
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A man and a monster making music (fol. 26v)
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes a bear-like grotesque playing a drum, and a man playing a psaltery.
Virgin Mary (fol. 18v)
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes an angel carrying two wine carafes, an angel playing a psaltery, an angel playing a hurdy-gurdy, and a grotesque playing a brass instrument. The historiated initial has...
Men making music and behaving curiously (fol. 29r)
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes a man playing a drum, and a man hitting an upside-down cauldron with an axe.
King David (fol. 10r)
[ca. 1440-1460]
Depicted in the miniature is King David playing the harp, surrounded by books and a stringed instrument.
Jacob wrestling the angel (fol. 223r)
[ca. 1260]
The first initial 'E' encloses the scene of Jacob wrestling the angel, and the second initial 'E' has David playing the bells.
Angel making music (fol. 17r)
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes an angel in a cloud playing a hurdy-gurdy, a monk carrying a processional cross, and a running man with a long candle.
St Mark (fol. 17v)
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes an angel playing a hurdy-gurdy; a lion, the symbol of the Evangelist St Mark, and St Mark writing.
Dragon making music (fol. 18r)
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes a man wearing a blue jacket with gold buttons and a belt, and a two-legged dragon with wings playing a brass instrument.
Man making music (fol. 19r)
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes a man playing a hurdy-gurdy, and a grotesque with a man's upper body attached to the body of a four-legged animal carrying a carafe.
Denomination: denarius
Date(s): 66 BCE
Issuer/creator: Quintus Pomponius Musa
Place: Rome
Material: silver
King David and the Judgement of Solomon (fol. 197r)
[ca. 1260]
Initial 'B' encloses a scene of King David playing his harp. The other initial 'B' encloses the scene of the judgement of Solomon, in which Solomon commands a soldier to divide a living child in two. ...
Demise for eight years of £10 of land and rent in the vill of Stockeld
25 Jun 1272
1 Richard son of Thomas de Stockheld 2 Roger de Plays, citizen of York