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Title: Of angells

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: On angels as Christ's agents upon earth; religious. Followed by a prose note: "Noe sooner having finisht this chapter of angells but a suddaine sicknes seised on mee and I was readie to fainte and much troubled in minde".

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angel
Coin

Denomination: angel

Date(s): 1509 - 1547

Issuer/creator: Henry VIII of England

Material: gold

angel
Coin

Denomination: angel

Date(s): 1553 - 1558

Issuer/creator: Mary I of England

Material: gold alloy

Angel
Coin

Denomination: Angel

Date(s): 1641

Issuer/creator: Charles I

Place: London, Tower Mint

Material: gold

Title: My angell gardian

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Religious poem on guardian angels and how they have been sent to guide him, finally, safely into heaven

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Title: My angell gardian

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Religious poem on guardian angels and how they have been sent to guide him, finally, safely into heaven

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An angel and a grotesque (fol. 19v)
Archive Piece

An angel and a grotesque (fol. 19v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes an angel blowing a bagpipe-type instrument, and a grotesque with a man's upper body attached to the body of a four-legged animal carrying a carafe.

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Angel making music (fol. 17r)
Archive Piece

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.

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Jacob wrestling the angel (fol. 223r)
Archive Piece

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.

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The hierarchie of the blessed angells : Their names, orders and offices

Heywood, Thomas (1574-1641)

1635

A poem in 9 books, each preceded by an argument in verse and an engraved plate, and followed by observations in prose and "A meditation" in verse. Includes a celebrated reference to Shakespeare and ...

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