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Total number of records: 95

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Brotherton Collection67
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Incunabula9
Ripon Cathedral5

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christ11
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Crown, John (1640?-1712)10
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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton9
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)9
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton9
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Crowning of Pepin (image 25)
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Crowning of Pepin (image 25)

[ca. 1461-1483]

The roundel on the left shows the crowning of Pepin, or Pippin the Younger, the king of Franks and the father of Charlemagne (46). The roundel on the right depicts the destruction of Britain. It has s...

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Christ crowned with thorns (fol. 74v)
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Christ crowned with thorns (fol. 74v)

[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]

The border is historiated with the scene of three men torturing Christ by pressing the crown of thorns into his head with sticks. The border is further decorated with a strawberry, a blueberry, and ca...

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Head of Christ with the Crown of Thorns (fol. 142r)
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Head of Christ with the Crown of Thorns (fol. 142r)

[ca. 1440-1460]

Initial 'A' inhabited with a frontal portrait of Christ.

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Andromache : A tragedy. As it is acted at the Dukes Theatre

Racine, Jean (1639-1699); Crown, John (1640?-1712)

1675

Final page blank.

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City politiques : a comedy : as it is acted by His Majesties servants

Crown, John (1640?-1712)

1683

Indexed in: Wing C7378.

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A postscript to John Bull, containing the history of the Crown-Inn, with the death of the widow, and what happened thereon

Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731)

[1714?]

Whig satire on Queen Anne and her associates, dubiously ascribed to John Arbuthnot (N.U.C.), but more likely written in imitation of his 'History of John Bull'; Defoe has also been suggested as author...

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The destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian : in two parts : as it is acted at the Theatre Royal

Crown, John (1640?-1712)

1677

Second pt. has special t.p. Advertisement: p [6] (3rd group). Indexed in: Wing C7385.

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Henry the Sixth, the first part : With the murder of Humphrey duke of Gloucester. As it was acted at the Dukes theatre

Crown, John (1640?-1712); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1681

An adaptation of Shakespeare's King Henry VI, Pt. 2. Page 69 is numbered 59. Indexed in: Wing C7388.

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Thyestes : a tragedy : Acted at the Theatre-Royal, by Their Majesties servants

Crown, John (1640?-1712); Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anno Domini, 1681

Fist edition. An adaptation of Seneca's tragedy. Signatures: [A]-H⁴(-A7). Indexed in: Wing C7408.

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