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Pig and bird (fol. 25r)
[ca. 1450-1500]
3-line initial 'B' in gold on a red/blue background with white penwork ornamentation of flowers, and decorated with two small quatrefoils at corners. The initial extends into a 1/4 bar-frame column bo...
Pomegranates and a bird (fol. 87v)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with a long-necked bird, pomegranates and curved acanthus leaves. 6-line foliate initial 'O' infilled with small red pimpernel-type flowers.
untitled oil sketch [figure at a window]
c. 1830
Undated oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of a figure in medieval dress looking out of a window at a white bird on the right, perched in a tree. There is a vase on the windowstill on the left and th...
A natural history of English song-birds : and such of the foreign as are usually brought over and esteemed for their singing. To which are added, figures of the cock, hen, and egg of each species, exactly copied from nature
Albin, Eleazar (fl. 1713-1759); Ware, Richard (1756)
1741
Bookseller's list: p. [100].
Birds, flowers, a classical soldier (fol. 26r)
[ca.1480-1500]
The border is decorated with strawberries, speedwells, heartsease, thistles, columbines, borage, flies, a bird with a long neck, and a dark apparently naked male figure (a wild man?) holding a red shi...
The resurrection of souls (fol. 170r)
[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]
St. Michael the Archangel receives souls after the general resurrection to take into Heaven, where God, clad in a red papal triple tiara and cloak, holds a globe with a cross, and is surrounded by fac...
Francisci Willughbeii de Middleton in agro Warwicensi, Armigeri, e Regia Societate, Ornithologiæ libri tres : In quibus aves omnes hactenus cognitæ in methodum naturis suis convenientem redactæ accuratè describuntur, Descriptiones iconibus elegantissimis & vivarum avium simillimis, Æri incisis illustrantur
Willughby, Francis (1635-1676); Ray, John (1627-1705); Willughby, Lady Emma
1676
Title in black and red; within lined border. Title vignette. "The cornerstone of modern systematic ornithology, being the first book on the classification of birds without respect to geographical ...
The ornithology of Francis Willughby : In three books. Wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described. The descriptions illustrated by.... LXXVIII copper plates. Translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work. To which are added, three considerable discourses, I. Of the art of fowling: with a description of several nets in two large copper plates. II. Of the ordering of singing birds. III. Of falconry
Willughby, Francis (1635-1672); Ray, John (1627-1705)
1678
Title in red and black. As in the copy described by Keynes (John Ray: a bibliography, 39), a leaf has been inserted between H3 and H4, with blank recto and "A table of land fowl" on verso, and anoth...
Annunciation to the Virgin
14th century
A large arched miniature of the Annunciation, in a French style of painting. The angel Gabriel announces the birth of Christ to the Virgin Mary. Gabriel holds a scroll with the words "Ave gracia ...
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...