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Total number of records: 22

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Books and printed items11
Archives8
Art items3

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Brotherton Collection12
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection9
Leeds Russian Archive2
Medieval Manuscripts2
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1
Ripon Cathedral1

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bible22
christianity9
painting7
christian biography3
christian literature, early3
church history3
councils and synods3
fathers of the church3
literature, medieval3
works of art3

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Dupin, Louis Ellies (1657-1719)3
Wotton, William3
Wotton, William (1666-1727)3
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)1
Farmer, Hugh (1714-1787)1
Leland, John (1506?-1552)1
Sharp, Thomas (1693-1758)1
Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806)1
Washington Cathedral. Rare Book Library1

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[Biblical and genealogical chronicle from Adam and Eve to Louis XI of France]
Archive Item

[Biblical and genealogical chronicle from Adam and Eve to Louis XI of France]

[ca. 1461-1483]

Decoration: 64 miniatures within roundels with toothed edges, 58-83 mm in diameter. 7-line incipit initial 'C' in blue on decorated gold ground. 4-line initials in gold, on pink and blue grounds patte...

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Hebrew synagogue Megillah scroll
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Hebrew synagogue Megillah scroll

ca. 1201-1300

Held in an open-ended cardboard tube 430 mm long and covered with black cloth on which there is some blindtooling and a label on which is typed, 'Bible/ Book of Esther/ Hebrew synagogue roll/ MS. 400'...

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Sketch of 'The Good Shepherd'

c. 1830

An undated pencil sketch of 'The Good Shepherd' by Edward Petre Novello, mounted in a cardboard frame. The shepherd holds a staff in their proper left hand and a sheep in their right. The under eye is...

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untitled oil sketch [John the Baptist preaching]

c. 1835

Oil sketch of John the Baptist Preaching by Edward Petre Novello. An inscription on the reverse in a later hand records that the framed picture is in Florence in the Gigliucci home and speculates that...

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untitled oil sketch [beheading of John the Baptist]

c. 1830

Undated oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, which is likely to illustrate a biblical narrative of the beheading of John the Baptist. There are three standing figures in the background, one of which ho...

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untitled oil sketch [three figures with an infant]

c. 1830

Untitled oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of three standing figures who appear to be fleeing with an infant. It is possibly a depiction of the biblical narrative of the Massacre of the Innocents. T...

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Watercolours

c. 1830

Watercolours on paper by Edward Petre Novello, representing biblical, literary and mythological narratives, in addition to family portraits of his mother Mary Sabilla Novello, sister Clara Anastasia N...

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untitled watercolour [two figures next to a cliff]

c. 1830

Undated watercolour of two figures next to a cliff by Edward Petre Novello, mounted on cardboard. The figure on the right is likely to be Jesus Christ. There is a town or city in the background on the...

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untitled watercolour [two figures in an interior]

c. 1830

Undated watercolour of two figures in an interior by Edward Petre Novello, mounted on cardboard with a metal fixing on the reverse. The figure on the right in seated and the figure on the left is stan...

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untitled watercolour [mother nursing child]

c. 1830

Undated watercolour of a mother nursing a child by Edward Petre Novello, with a poem by his sister Mary Cowden Clarke adhered to the reverse, titled 'Sick-Bed Reflection' and dated 1873. Given the blu...

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untitled watercolour [crucifixion of Jesus, Gestas and Dismas]

c. 1830

Undated watercolour of the crucifixion of Jesus, Gestas and Dismas by Edward Petre Novello, at the moment where the body of Christ was pierced by the Lance of Longinus as the final of the five holy wo...

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Scriptural subjection to civil government; in an address to real Christians. By Thomas Sheraton

Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1795

In fact the first separate edition of the work, which originally was part of Adam Callander's 'Thoughts on the peaceable and spiritual nature of Christ's kingdom', London, 1794.

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