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The blinding of Tobit (fol. 181r)
Archive Piece

The blinding of Tobit (fol. 181r)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'T' encloses the scene of Tobit being blinded by a swallow's dropping.

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 145-61

Issuer/creator: Antoninus Pius (138-61)

Place: Rome

Material: silver

panel of silk brocade
Textile

panel of silk brocade

late 19th century

This silk brocade has a red satin ground and polychrome weft patterns. The central motifs are large peony and bao xian flowers. In the spaces between the flowers auspicious objects such as pomegrana...

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Title: Book 24. Page 181 (f.84r). Extracts out of Orlando Furioso (heading f.90v)

Author: Hoole, John

Date(s): 1783 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 100

Contents: Contrasts the actions of 'good' and 'bad' men. While both are faced with evils, the good man fights against them, while the bad gives in to them. One of a number of extracts from Hoole's translation of Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso' (BCMSV 6165-6184)

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[Orator Terræ Sanctæ, et Hungariæ; seu sacrarum Philippicarum, in Rurcarum barbariem, et importunas Christianorum discordias, not{181]

Bosquier, Philippe (1562-1636)

1606

Colophon reads "Ex typographia Laurentii Kellam, sumptibus Petri Borremans, 1605".

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Kimber and Johnson Baronetage

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Kimber and Johnson Baronetage

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A travelling atlas of the English counties

Hall, Sidney (fl.1817-1860)

1875

Railways further revised since the edition of [1866]. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 87.

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