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Title: Psalme 134
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 134
Pentecost (fol. 134r)
[ca. 1440-1460]
The dove of the Holy Ghost descends upon the Virgin Mary, seated in the centre, and the Apostles, assembled around her. The Virgin has a book on her lap. The dove is surrounded by a golden circle of l...
St. Peter (fol. 134v)
[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]
The border shows St. Peter holding a book and a key. Inside the initial Christ also holds a book. A pink and a pansy also decorate the border.
St. Claude (fol. 134r)
[ca. 1490]
St. Claude is shown clad in a bishop's mitre and holding a processional cross.
Title: The universal health, or A true union to the Q. & Princess
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1692 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: An address to Princess Anne, urging her to dismiss her favourite Sarah
Churchill and become reconciled to Mary II
St Mark (fol. 17v)
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes an angel playing a hurdy-gurdy; a lion, the symbol of the Evangelist St Mark, and St Mark writing.
Edward Lear : landscape painter and nonsense poet (1812-1888)
Davidson, Angus (1898-1982)
1938
Published works: p. 273.
Poems
Yeats, W B (1865-1939)
1912
Contents: The Countess Cathleen.--The rose.--The land of heart's desire.--Crossways. --The wanderings of Usheen.
Eugene Onegin (v.1)
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1799-1837); Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1899-1977)
[1964]
Contents: v.1. The translation. -- v.2. Commentary on preliminaries and chapters 1-5. -- v.3. Commentary on chapters 6-8, "Onegin's Journey" and "Chapter Ten", appendixes. -- v.4. Index. Evgeniy Onegi...
Prince Rvpert his declaration
Rupert Prince, Count Palatine (1619-1682)
1642
A soldierly vindication of his troops by Prince Rupert and an attempt to shift the charge of inhumanity to his adversaries. Published December 2, 1642.