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A Visit to the Tower : being, an account of several birds, and beasts
Boreman, Thomas
[ca.1825]
Prose descriptions of birds and animals, some taken from Thomas Boreman's A description of three hundred animals (1730). Anonymous.
A natural history of uncommon birds : and of some other rare and undescribed animals, quadrupedes, fishes, reptiles, insects, &c. [...] In four parts (v.1)
Edwards, George (1694-1773)
1743-51
"Exhibited in three hundred and sixty-two copper-plates, from designs copied immediately from nature, and curiously coloured after life. With a full and accurate description of each figure. To which i...
A natural history of uncommon birds : and of some other rare and undescribed animals, quadrupedes, fishes, reptiles, insects, &c. [...] In four parts (v.2)
Edwards, George (1694-1773)
1743-51
"Exhibited in three hundred and sixty-two copper-plates, from designs copied immediately from nature, and curiously coloured after life. With a full and accurate description of each figure. To which i...
Solomon speaking to a prophet (fol. 264v)
[ca. 1260]
Initial 'V' encloses a scene of King Solomon, crowned, speaking to a prophet. The border has a bird and a head of a grotesque or an animal.
The Creation (fol. 5r)
[ca. 1260]
Initial 'I' encloses the scene of God creating Heaven and Earth, the trees and plants, the sun and moon, the birds and animals, Adam, God resting on the seventh day, and the Crucifixion of Christ with...
The Annunciation to the Virgin (fol. 45r)
[1450-1475]
The Virgin Mary kneels by a small altar on which a book lies open. The angel Gabriel, depicted with green wings, announces that she will give birth to Christ. The Dove is depicted between them. The fu...
Sacrifice at an altar (fol. 38r)
[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]
The miniature depicts a tonsured male figure, clad in a white gown and a red cloak, apparently sacrificing two animals by burning them on an altar. His head-dress with a fur lining and a golden top li...
Pan and other mythical creatures (fol. 97r)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with Pan (from Greek mythology), the god of Nature, with his horns and legs of a goat and body of a man, wearing a wreath and making music with pan pipes, several putti, some w...