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Title: Psalme 117

Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax

Attribution: F.; [Bible]

Date(s): 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt 105

Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 117

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Archive Print piece

Timon of Athens. III. iv. 117 - III. v. 117

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (88)

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Hippocamp (fol. 117v)
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Hippocamp (fol. 117v)

[ca. 1450-1500]

4-line initial 'S' in gold, on red/blue background, decorated with white penwork (flowers and leaves). A bar-frame column border in gold and blue, and with small green leaf motifs. The border is decor...

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Floral border (fol. 117v)
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Floral border (fol. 117v)

[ca. 1440-1460]

Rinceau border with acanthus leaves, thistles, barbed quatrefoils, red berries, bluebells, a trumpet flower, and black hairline tendrils with gold ivy leaves and pine cones. Bar-frame border in rose/b...

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Acanthus leaves (fol. 117r)
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Acanthus leaves (fol. 117r)

[ca. 1500-1520]

The border is decorated with acanthus leaves and flowers. 7-line foliate initial 'S'.

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Initial 'O' (fol. 117r)
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Initial 'O' (fol. 117r)

[ca. 1450-1500]

Blue initial 'O' with white penwork ornamentation, and with foliate infill in blue, green, red and ochre, on a pink ground. Pasted in from another (13th-century?) manuscript.

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Decorative foliage (fol. 117v)
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Decorative foliage (fol. 117v)

[ca. 1450-1500]

Foliage design in pink, green, red and ochre, and with a small grotesque head, on a blue ground. Pasted in from another (13th-century?) manuscript.

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Archive Print piece

Coriolanus. V. iii. 117 - V. iv. 37

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (28)

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Archive Print piece

Timon of Athens. III. iv. 2 - III. iv. 117

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (87)

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Archive Print piece

Julius Caesar. III. ii. 117 - III. ii. 247

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (122)

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 92 AD

Issuer/creator: Domitian (81-96)

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Archive Sub-collection

Rillington, Scagglethorpe and Settrington, deeds

14th century-17th century

18 deeds etc. 1312-1642.

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