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Title: Speech-less, Feb. 15 1695/6

Author: Morris, Castilian

Attribution: C. Morris

Date(s): 1696 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 56

Contents: Religious acrostic on the word Speechless, asking God mercifully

to forgive his sins, and Christ to plead for him. Repeated

later in the MS.

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Archive Print Item
Floral border (fol. 157r)
Archive Piece

Floral border (fol. 157r)

[ca. 1470-1480]

1/4 bar-frame border in gold and in rose/blue acanthus vine that extends into the border in hairline tendrils that carry poppyheads, curved leaves, and gold balls with green lobes. 5-line rose/blue in...

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Engraving of Charles Stokes

c. 1800

An undated glazed engraving of Charles Stokes, possibily the amateur scientist and collector.

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