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Brotherton Collection92
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Birch, Thomas5
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Archive File

Enitharmon Archive: Box 240

c.2004-2005

Book covers for various authors, many copies of each

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Virgin and Child and Patron (fol. 240r)
Archive Piece

Virgin and Child and Patron (fol. 240r)

[1450-1500]

The arched miniature depicts a male figure kneeling in prayer in front of the Virgin and Child. His black hat lies on the ground beside him. An angel with blue wings stands at the background and plays...

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Richard the Third. V. iii. 240 - V. iv. 6

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (203)

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King Henry the Eighth. III. ii. 131 - III. ii. 240

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (221)

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Much Ado About Nothing. I. i. 240 - I. iii. 22

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (103)

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Archive File

Title: To Dr Broughton desireing him to send me some verses of mine which I had

forgott

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Date(s): 1694 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 5

Contents: Conversational epistle asking Dr Broughton, as the poet's amanuensis, to

send him a copy of a certain poem; referring also to the fashion for

verse-making, and (probably) to the Declaration of Indulgence of 1687 and

(autobiographically) the Oath of Allegi

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Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire. Drawn by J P Neale. Engraved by T Barber. London:

1825

pub. May 1; 1825, by J P Neale, 16, Bennett St, Blackfriars Road, & Sherwood, Jones & Co, Paternoster Row,

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Floral border (fol. 278v)
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Floral border (fol. 278v)

[ca. 1440-1460]

Rinceau border with acanthus leaves, thistles, barbed quatrefoils and trefoils, a rose, and black hairline tendrils with gold balls, ivy leaves and pine cones. Bar-frame border in rose/blue and gold. ...

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Memories

Paul, Charles Kegan

1971

Facsimile reprint of 1st ed., London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1899.

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The English language

Smith, Logan Pearsall (1865-1946)

1912

Includes bibliography [p] 253-254 and index.

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Tausend Jahre deutscher Plastik und Malerei

Oelsen, Herbert freiherr von; Deutscher Werkbund

1934

Pages 1-152 are full page illustrations with descriptive text.

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