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Title: Description of death

Author: Spenser, Edmund

Date(s): 1590 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: "The Faerie Queene", II.xi.21-22, comparing death to an archer armed with

deadly arrows, and describing his ghastly appearance

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John Bunyan and the Gipsies

Simson, James (1826-); Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903)

1882

"Mr. Leland on the Gipsies": p. [11]-21.

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Grapes and buttercups (fol. 86r)
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Grapes and buttercups (fol. 86r)

[ca. 1500-1520]

The border is decorated with small buttercup-type flowers, grapes and curved acanthus leaves. 6-line foliate initial 'D'.

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Education for peace

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1949

"Four... papers ... originally delivered in 1947 or 1948 as lectures in various parts of the world ... The final essay was originally published by Freedom Press (London) as a seperate pamphlet" - note...

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A charm of words : essays and papers on language

Partridge, Eric (1894-1979)

[1961, c1960]

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New propositions

Pembroke, Philip Herbert Earl of (1584-1650); Northumberland, Algernon Percy Earl of (1602-1688); Essex, Robert Devereux Earl of (1591-1646); Holland, Henry Rich Earl of (1590-1649); Great Britain. Parliament

June 14. 1642

Indexed in: Wing (2) P1121A.

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Archive Print piece

F3r

M.cccc.l.xxvii. die primo Iullii. [1 July 1477]

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Score (various versions)

1983

Content includes the 'for xerox' master. One of the spiral-bound copies is edited by Ian White (c. 1983) and includes performance notes.

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Ungarische Tänze, für das Pianoforte zu vier Händen

Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)

1880

Vol.[3]. Nos.11-16. -- Vol.[4]. Nos. 17-21.

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BC MS NCC/11/2/1 Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (née Novello)
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Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (née Novello)

1854

Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and his wife Clara Anastasia Gigliucci née Novello, mounted on cardboard. The reverse is inscribed with the following: 'Portrait of Mother & Father an enlarg...

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Appointment of attorney

1601

Robert Adam of Tydde St Mary in Holland esq and Thomas Wimberley of Spaldinge gent

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Plutus : or, The world's idol. A comedy

Aristophanes; Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744)

1715

"A prefatory discourse, containing some account of Aristophanes, and his two comedies of Plutus, and the Clouds": p.[11-21] (1st group).

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