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Title: The Bed of Reverend Mr William Willets - an Humble Faithful Minister - in Dudley, Who at the Age of 36 Fell Asleep, March the 9th 1699/1700

Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)

Date(s): 1700?

Manuscript: Lt 98

Contents: Epitaph on the clergyman William Willets, concerning the consequences of human vanity and reality of divine judgement

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A bird, flowers and a man (fol. 81r)
Archive Piece

A bird, flowers and a man (fol. 81r)

[ca.1480-1500]

The border is decorated with a bird, pinks, strawberries, thistles, speedwells, acanthus leaves and a man dressed in clothes for labour, with a hat, a hood, an apron and boots. 5-line foliate initial ...

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Sketch of horses and figures

c. 1830

Undated pencil sketches of horses, standing and seated figures and studies of facial expressions by Edward Petre Novello.

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untitled oil sketch [three figures in an interior]

c. 1830

Undated oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of three figures standing in a rustic interior. The figure on the left appears to we wearing clothing of a higher social class, with an elaborate feathered ...

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Gundelsheim a. N., Dreiburgenblick, from a painting

1936

Addressed in pencil to Albrecht Knust 17-9-36

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Women folk

Blatchford, Winifrid

v.4, no.36 9 Mar. 1910 "With which is incorporated the 'Woman worker'".

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Annual report of the Auxiliary Church Missionary Association, for Sheffield and the neighbourhood

Auxiliary Church Missionary Association (Sheffield, England)

7th; 9th-30th; 33rd-38th. 1823; 1825-1846; 1849-1855. 2 copies of 36th report (1853)

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Profile- Rudolf Laban

1951

Title crossed out and replaced by newspaper cutting from the Observer July 22 1951, with profile on Rudolf Laban and photocopy of same. Copy also in 58/36/9 (d). Noted on photocopy:" German writing wi...

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Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphonien für das Pianoforte zu vier Händen (v.1, no.2)

Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)

[ca. 1880]

Pl. nos. : 2303-2310.

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The London magazine

De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)

New series: v.3, no.8-9 (Nov. - Dec. 1963); v.4, no.6 (Sep. 1964) ; v.4, no.10 (Jan. 1965) ; v.5, no.7 (Oct. 1965); v.8 no.3 (June 1968) ; v.8, no.12 (March 1969) ; Index to v.8 ; v.9, no.3-6 (June-Se...

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Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphonien für das Pianoforte zu vier Händen (v.1, no.3)

Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)

[ca. 1880]

Pl. nos. : 2303-2310.

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