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Bugg, Francis (1640-1724?)9
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Lipsius, Justus, 1547-16067
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St Martin dividing his cloak (fol. 245v)
Archive Piece

St Martin dividing his cloak (fol. 245v)

[ca. 1440-1460]

St Martin, on horseback in front of a city, divides his fur-lined cloak with a beggar.

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 195

Issuer/creator: Septimius Severus (193-211)

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Archive Judaica File

[Illuminated patent of protection , 15 March 1703, Livorno, Cardinal Francesco Maria de'Medici for Sabato di Samuel Levi of Livorno (original)].

1703

Title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 245. Opening words: "In riguardo del puntual servizio …" Verso is blank. State of text: So...

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Title: To Mr Purcell

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 5

Contents: In praise of Henry Purcell (seemingly still living) as an incomparable modern

composer. Textual note in margin by a later hand

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A seasonable caveat against the prevalency of Quakerism : containing a list of one of their parliaments, and forty-four of their canon laws. As also their errors in doctrine, and politicks in government, and the methods they take to support both... Together with an expostulary conclusion, reflecting the Quakers petition

Bugg, Francis (1640-1724?)

1701

Smith calls for portrait and BM (Br Ports) lists one of ca. 1701. Some copies may have been issued with it. Errata: p. [1] (3rd count). "A Brief Narrative of the Proceedings of W. Penn" [in Pennsy...

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A serious dialogue betwixt a church-man and a Quaker

Keith, George (1639?-1716)

1699

Signed (p.16): G.K. Advertisements for Keith's writings, p. [2].

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To Friends belonging to the Monthly Meeting in Southwark

Society of Friends. Horsleydown Monthly Meeting

1741

Subscribed by Henry Brown, clerk. Issued by Horsleydown Monthly Meeting.

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Floral border (fol. 83r)
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Floral border (fol. 83r)

[ca. 1450-1500]

4-line initial 'G' in gold, on red/blue background, infilled with an aroid flower. Floral border composed of hairline tendrils connecting trefoils, golden pine cones, small green leaves, a large aroid...

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