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Rogers, William, D.17091
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Floral border and initial (fol. 62r)
Archive Piece

Floral border and initial (fol. 62r)

[ca. 1480-1500]

4-line initial in blue and gold, infilled with a pink and a purple flower, with white penwork decoration. Three-sided border of flowers, leaves and gold discs with concentric penwork tendrils.

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Archive File

Will of Avery Uvedale

21 Jun 1583

Old refs no 7; 107 underlined in ink 21 Jun 1583 English and Latin in seal box

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Archive Print Item

An epistle to Friends in the truth

Taylor, Christopher (1615-1686)

[1676]

Caption title. Signed (p.7): Christopher Taylor. "Written at Waltham in Essex, the 8th of the 11th moneth, 1675." Wing notes imprint date as 1676.

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Archive File

Miscellany notebook, mainly on theological subjects, compiled by Anthony Higgin and another

Higgin, Anthony

c.1586

Contains miscellaneous notes, apparently for sermons, on baptism, the Lord's supper, etc., with summaries of contemporary controversial theological and some classical works, as follows: (1) f.7: Whita...

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Archive Print Item

[Diadochos: id est Successio: Ginák Poslaupnost Knijžat a Králuw Cžeských, Biskupuw y Arcybiskupuw Pražských, a wssech třech stavuw slawného králowstwj czeskeho, to gest panského, rytjřskeho a městského, krátce sebraná a wydaná skrze B. Paprockého z Glogol a z Paprockewule. 4 Knih]

Paprocki, Bartomiej

[1602]

Some Latin text. Title-leaf badly mutilated, only top inner corner remaining, with small part only of first three lines of title. The last book is called the fifth, but there are in fact only four...

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Book of Prayers
Archive Item

[Beverley prayer book]

[ca. 1425]

Front flyleaves: [i-ii] modern vellum, i-iv paper, [vii-viii] modern vellum. Rear flyleaves are modern vellum. Catchwords for each quire are in scroll cartouches. Decoration: 3 full-page coats of ar...

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Mr. William Shakespear's comedies, histories, and tragedies. Published according to the true original copies. Unto which is added, seven plays, never before printed in folio: viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre, The London prodigal, The history of Thomas Lord Cr
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[Breviarium ad Usum Parisiensem]
Archive Item

[Breviarium ad Usum Parisiensem]

[ca. 1440-1460]

Decoration: 27 large arched miniatures, seven historiated 9-line initials, and several 1-4-line decorated initials and line-fillers throughout. Fine rinceaux border throughout the manuscript. Dr J. J....

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Archive File

Anonymous miscellany of short Latin compositions on various literary themes and philosophical maxims

c.1575

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 5...

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Archive Judaica File

[Tefilot ke-minhag Ḳaraʾim : ḳeṭaʿim ṿe-ḳunṭresim min 27 kitve yad shonim]. [תפילות כמנהג קראים : קטעים וקונטרסים מן כ׳׳ז כתבי יד שונים]. ‎[Portions from Karaite liturgy : fragments and quires from 27 different manuscripts].

[17th century]

Title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), 610. Variant titles: Maḥazor minhag Ḳaraʾim (ḳeṭa...

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