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Editorial The fabulous region of Himavant covered in forests with seven great lakes and inhabited by gods, sages, demons and wild animals. . Burmese Buddhist Cosmology. Burma, early 19th century. Source: Or. 14004, f.35. Language: Burmese.
Editorial Scene from the life of Buddha. The Life of the Buddha. Burma, c.1800-1820. Source: Or.14297; f.35. Language: Burmese.
Editorial The Last Judgement. Above; Christ in Majesty displaying his wounds, with two angels. Below; the Cross supported by two angels. Winchester Psalter [Psalter of Henry of Blois; Psalter of St Swithun]. Winchester [Priory of St Swithun or Hyde Abbey]; betwe...
Editorial On the left, Ravana in a puspaka chariot and the titans heading further up river to fight Arjuna. On the right Arjuna is in the river with his wives, who beg him not to fight Ravana. Arjuna fights Ravana's general, Prahasta, who is overcome. Ramayana. ...
Editorial The Judgement (Rev. 20:11-15). Two crowned women are on the left, with Christ in a mandorla in the centre. Two Apostles (?) are on the right. Below, there are three Apostles (?), a hell-mouth and six corpses. Apocalypse, in German. c 1350-c 1370. Sourc...
Editorial Rama hunting a deer while Ravana abducts his wife Sita, scene from the Ramakien (Thai version of the Ramayana). Ramakien (Thai version of the Ramayana). 1880. Materials: European paper Dimensions: 230 mm x 355 mm Script: Khom script, a variant of Khmer...
Editorial Episodes from the life of Buddha. Jataka tales (Episodes from the life of the Buddha). Burma, mid-19th century. Source: Or. 13538 f.35. Language: Burmese.
Editorial The women are told by angels to seek Christ in Galilee; St Mary Magdalene gives the news to St Peter and St John; they inspect the empty tomb. Holkham Bible Picture Book. England, circa 1320-1330. Source: Add. 47682, f.35.
Editorial Biblical scenes from the Apocalypse of St. John. People being slain. THE APOCALYPSE, in Latin , headed "Incipit textus uisionis prime apocalipsis beati Iohannis apostoli"; with a commentary, beg. "Tempus uideliect itidicii.". Late 13th century. Source:...
Editorial Scene from the legend of Phra Malai, a famous Buddhist monk believed to have travelled to heaven and hell. The god Indra with heavenly beings (devata). Phra Malai. Central Thailand, 19th Century. Source: Add. 15347, f.35. Language: Thai.
Editorial One of the viziers telling the king a tale on the untrustworthiness of women. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatures. c.1575. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3214, f.35. Language: Persian.
Editorial A north-east watercolour view of Torton or Tortington Place in (West) Sussex drawn in 1782 by S.H. Grimm. . A north-east watercolour view of Torton or Tortington Place in (West) Sussex drawn in 1782 by S.H. Grimm. 1782. Length: 209. Width: 296 Scale: M...
Editorial New Year's Day offering at ancestral shrine. Kisan hwa. [Kisan paintings]. Korea, late 19th century. Album of 100 genre paintings with captions by Kisan [Kim Chun-gun, fl. 1880-1890] . Source: Or.14344, f.35. Language: Korean.
Editorial Dolphins near Rio de Janeiro. Sketches made in Captain Cook's First Voyage, 1768. 1768. (Whole drawing) Dolphins seen near the harbour at Rio de Janeiro. November-December 1768 Image taken from Sketches made in Captain Cook's First Voyage, 1768-1771. ...
Editorial Letter of Jonathan Swift. Correspondence of Swift and 'Vanessa'. England [Wantage, co. Oxon]; 1714. [Whole folio] Autograph letter of Swift to 'Vanessa' [Esther Vanhomrigh]; written just before he left for Ireland. Wantage, 12 August 1714 Image taken ...
Editorial Detail showing two tigers fighting. The fabulous region of Himavant covered in forests with seven great lakes and inhabited by gods, sages, demons and wild animals. Burmese Buddhist Cosmology. Burma, 19th century. Two tigers fighting. The fabulous regi...
Editorial Pipes and a tobacco-box used by the Nile negroes- one-fifth real size. The history of mankind / Trans from the second German edited by A. J. Butler. v. 3, 1898. [S.l.] : Macmillan, 1896-1898. Source: 572*3343* vol III, f.35. Language: English.
Editorial Ornamental cover around the neck. DRAWINGS, in Indian ink, illustrative of Capt. Cook's first voyage, 1768 -1770, chiefly relating to Otaheite and New Zealand, by A. Buchan, John F. Miller, and others. 1768-1770. Source: Add. 15508, f.35.
Editorial A bas-de-page scene of a grotesque pursuing a man. Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals'). France, S. (Toulouse?); last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century. Source: Royal 10 E. IV, f.35. La...
Editorial One of the viziers telling the king a tale on the untrustworthiness of women. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatures. c.1575. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3214, f.35. Language: Persian.
Editorial Braminee women. Album of 82 drawings depicting the costume of vari. 1800 - 1801. Braminee Women at the Toombudra River at Hurryhurr. July 1800. Also verse quotation. Image taken from Album of 82 drawings depicting the costume of various castes in Bala...
Editorial Knights jousting. Military Roll of Arms (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms). Part 2 ff. 9-40v. England, S. E. (probably London). Before 1448, c. 1446. Numerous coloured drawings of combatant mounted knights in armour and tabard. ...
Editorial The wizard and sage, Merlin, sitting under a tree. . The life of Merlin, sirnamed Ambrosius. His prophecies and predictions interpreted; and their truth made good by our English Annalls. Being a chronographicall history of all the kings and memorable p...
Editorial Emblem 43 self portrait. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Self-portrait of William Blake, his left profile, with wisps of hair. Emblem drawing of two figures walking away from a cloiser. Lines from 'Public Address' Im...
Editorial Alice at the door in the tree. Alice's Adventures Under Ground [in Wonderland]. England [Oxford]; 1862-1864. [Whole folio] Drawing from Chapter III: Alice finds a doorway in one of the trees that leads into the long hall, from where she can get into th...
Editorial A north-east watercolour view of Torton or Tortington Place in (West) Sussex drawn in 1782 by S.H. Grimm. . A north-east watercolour view of Torton or Tortington Place in (West) Sussex drawn in 1782 by S.H. Grimm. 1782. Length: 209. Width: 296 Scale: M...
Editorial New Year's Day offering at ancestral shrine. Kisan hwa. [Kisan paintings]. Korea, late 19th century. Album of 100 genre paintings with captions by Kisan [Kim Chun-gun, fl. 1880-1890] . Source: Or.14344, f.35. Language: Korean.
Editorial Scene from the life of Buddha. The Life of the Buddha. Burma, c.1800-1820. Source: Or.14297; f.35. Language: Burmese.
Editorial The Last Judgement. Above; Christ in Majesty displaying his wounds, with two angels. Below; the Cross supported by two angels. Winchester Psalter [Psalter of Henry of Blois; Psalter of St Swithun]. Winchester [Priory of St Swithun or Hyde Abbey]; betwe...
Editorial Thai medical diagram showing the pressure points on a Human body. Massage treatise. Thailand, 1800 - 1850. Paper folding book (samut khoi). Dimensions: 355 mm x 127 mm. Script: 4 lines per side, 31 cm long. Thai script. Source: Or. 13922 f.35. Language...
Editorial Gifts for the priests. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. King Dasaratha is distributing gifts of gold, silver and coins among the priests and their assistants as prescribed in the asvamedha sacrifice. In the right foreground, a beggar is shown recei...
Editorial Pen and ink drawing of a fish, with colour wash; rubrication and text. De animalium proprietate. 2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century. Source: Burney 97 f.35. Language: Greek, Ancient.
Editorial Dolphins near Rio de Janeiro. Sketches made in Captain Cook's First Voyage, 1768. 1768. (Whole drawing) Dolphins seen near the harbour at Rio de Janeiro. November-December 1768 Image taken from Sketches made in Captain Cook's First Voyage, 1768-1771. ...
Editorial On the left, Ravana in a puspaka chariot and the titans heading further up river to fight Arjuna. On the right Arjuna is in the river with his wives, who beg him not to fight Ravana. Arjuna fights Ravana's general, Prahasta, who is overcome. Ramayana. ...
Editorial Page from 'Morte Darthur'. Le Morte Darthur [Winchester Malory]. England; circa 1471-1483. [Whole folio] Beginning of Book III of 'Morte Darthur', with initial 'I' Image taken from Le Morte Darthur [Winchester Malory]. Originally published/produced i...
Editorial A mounted knight. S. Netherlands (?), early 16th century. (Whole folio) A mounted knight accoutred in blue and crimson, and with his horse's cloth decorated with the Tudor rose. Originally published/produced in S. Netherlands (?), early 16th century. ...
Editorial A dance in Otaheite. Drawn and engraved by J.B Cupriani and F. Bartolozzi. Three Raiatean women dancing, accompanied by two drummers and a flautist. The flautist is blowing a nose flute. The scene is an interior one, with the group surrounded by column...
Editorial Halifax Harbour. The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the. 1775 - 1781. Source: Maps.184.m.1.f.35, plate 20. Language: English.
Editorial The Judgement (Rev. 20:11-15). Two crowned women are on the left, with Christ in a mandorla in the centre. Two Apostles (?) are on the right. Below, there are three Apostles (?), a hell-mouth and six corpses. Apocalypse, in German. c 1350-c 1370. Sourc...
Editorial King Uther comes to Tintagel. ROMANCES in French verse ... 14th century. Source: Egerton 3028 f.35.
Editorial Rama hunting a deer while Ravana abducts his wife Sita, scene from the Ramakien (Thai version of the Ramayana). Ramakien (Thai version of the Ramayana). 1880. Materials: European paper Dimensions: 230 mm x 355 mm Script: Khom script, a variant of Khmer...
Editorial Letter of Jonathan Swift. Correspondence of Swift and 'Vanessa'. England [Wantage, co. Oxon]; 1714. [Whole folio] Autograph letter of Swift to 'Vanessa' [Esther Vanhomrigh]; written just before he left for Ireland. Wantage, 12 August 1714 Image taken ...
Editorial Page from Malmesbury Cartulary. Cartulary of Malmesbury Abbey. England [Malmesbury?]; 14th century. (Whole folio) Boundaries of various manors belonging to Malmesbury Abbey; 'Grutheham' [Grittenham?], 'Brenkewarth' [Brinkworth], 'Lutleton' Image taken...
Editorial Island of Chios. Account of the Islands of the Mediterranean. Florence, 1489. Source: Add. 15760, f.35. Language: Latin.
Editorial The Resurrection. Mirandola Hours. Italy, circa 1490-1499. [Whole folio] The opening of Sext. The Resurrection. Initial 'M' formed of branches with a scenic background. At top, symbols of the Passion; all'antica borders; at foot, a naked man [David] st...
Editorial The Simurgh carrying the infant Zal to her nest on Mount Alburz. A miniature painting from an eighteenth century manuscript of Muntakhab-i Shahnama, a prose version of the Shahnama and the Barzunama. Muntakhab-i Shahnama. Punjab, 1742. . . Source: Or...
Editorial A yogi hanging by his feet. Asanas and Mudras (Hata yoga). 19th century. A yogi hanging by his feet from a tree in Tapakara asana posture. Image taken from Asanas and Mudras (Hata yoga). Originally published/produced in 19th century. . Source: Add. 2...
Editorial Botanical illustration of plants. Herbal. Italy, N. (Lombardy). Herbal. Italy, N. (Lombardy) c. 1440. Source: Sloane 4016 f.35. Language: Latin.
Editorial Full page botanical painting of Galanthus (Snowdrop) on the right and a blue-flowering bulb, probably Ipheion on the left, with a botanist and a young man gathering plants on a mountain top. Coloured drawings of plants, copied from nature in the Roman ...
Editorial Dragon and elephant fighting. Bestiary. N. France; 13th century. (Miniature only) A dragon biting an elephant with its jaws and stabbing it in the belly with its tail. Image taken from Bestiary. Originally published/produced in N. France; 13th centur...
Editorial Poet receiving a robe. Anthology of Diwans. Tabriz, Iran, 1314-1315. Poet, with two other turbaned Persians behind him, receiving a robe of honour from a Mongol prince attended by three courtiers, one of whom is behind the Persians. A miniature paintin...
Editorial Map of Cape Fortunate. Sir Francis Drake's World Voyage. England [London]; circa 1677. Source: Sloane 61, f.35. Language: English.
Editorial A map of the Mughal province of Cachemir (Kashmir). Album illustrating the provinces of the Mughal Empire. 1770. Watercolour and ink. Source: Add.Or.4039, f.35.
Editorial Episodes from the life of Buddha. Jataka tales (Episodes from the life of the Buddha). Burma, mid-19th century. Source: Or. 13538 f.35. Language: Burmese.
Editorial Five standing figures. ‘Sculptured Figures on the South side of the Second story of the Square Ruddam at Mahabalipooram. 16th July 1816. Copied by J. Mustie April 1819.’. 1816. Source: WD 1068 f.35.
Editorial [Drawing No.70] View of Loxwood Place, co. Sussex. Grimm's Sussex Drawings. 1791. Source: Add. 5678, f.35. Language: English.
Editorial Tur is defeated and killed by Minuchihr. Shahnama of Firdawsi, with 56 miniatures. 1580 - 1600. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3540, f.35. Language: Persian.
Editorial The women are told by angels to seek Christ in Galilee; St Mary Magdalene gives the news to St Peter and St John; they inspect the empty tomb. Holkham Bible Picture Book. England, circa 1320-1330. Source: Add. 47682, f.35.
Editorial Text from 'The Elephant's child'. Rudyard Kipling: autograph printer's copy of 'Just So stories', incl. 'The Tabu Tale', with autograph illustrations and initials. 1902. Paper; ff. ii+148. 370 x 280mm. Source: Add. 59840 f.35.
Editorial Biblical scenes from the Apocalypse of St. John. People being slain. THE APOCALYPSE, in Latin , headed "Incipit textus uisionis prime apocalipsis beati Iohannis apostoli"; with a commentary, beg. "Tempus uideliect itidicii.". Late 13th century. Source:...
Editorial Scene from the legend of Phra Malai, a famous Buddhist monk believed to have travelled to heaven and hell. The god Indra with heavenly beings (devata). Phra Malai. Central Thailand, 19th Century. Source: Add. 15347, f.35. Language: Thai.
Editorial 'A view taken from the ruins of palazzo della regina dell Elba of the opposite coast of Tuscany'. JOURNAL of a Tour through the Island of Elba, 26 Apr.-5 May 1789, by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Bart., of Stourhead, the Wiltshire antiquary and archaeol...
Editorial Two armies preparing themselves for battle. Skazanie o Mamaevom Poboishche (the Tale of the Rout of Mamai). 17th century. The Skazanie is a romance in Russian Church Slavonic, composed in the 15th century, relating the struggle of the Muscovian Grand P...
Editorial Text page from Hours of the Virgin with decorated border showing a putto embracing a dove. Sforza Hours. Milan, circa 1490; Flemish insertions, 1517-1520. Source: Add. 34294, f.35. Language: Latin.
Editorial Detail showing two tigers fighting. The fabulous region of Himavant covered in forests with seven great lakes and inhabited by gods, sages, demons and wild animals. Burmese Buddhist Cosmology. Burma, 19th century. Two tigers fighting. The fabulous regi...
Editorial [Whole drawing] A dart from New Zealand; a shield, fish spear and a javelin from New Holland [Australia]; two darts from New Guinea. A Collection of Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage, 1768-1771. 1771. . Sourc...
Editorial Pentecost. Hours of Jacob de Brégilles. S. Netherland [Bruges]; circa 1460. [Whole folio] Hours of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit above, with the Virgin seated with a book open on her lap. St Peter and St Paul, with the other apostles, kneel beside ...
Editorial The fabulous region of Himavant covered in forests with seven great lakes and inhabited by gods, sages, demons and wild animals. . Burmese Buddhist Cosmology. Burma, early 19th century. Source: Or. 14004, f.35. Language: Burmese.
Editorial Archway on benedictional page. The Benedictional of St Aethelwold. England. The Benedictional of St Aethelwold Benedictional, written by the scribe Godeman for St ?thelwold, Bishop of Winchester; 963-984. Latin. Decorative frames, either rectangular o...
Editorial Page of a manuscript from 'The Desert of Religion'. The Desert of Religion and other poems and religious pieces,. etc. mostly illustrated, in Northern English. The Desert of Religion and other poems and religious pieces,. etc. mostly illustrated, in No...
Editorial Pinks. Book of Hours. France (Tours), 1510-1525; detached calendar leave. (Whole folio) Initial and text. Borders with trompe l'oeil decoration including pinks. Image taken from Book of Hours. Originally published/produced in France (Tours), 1510-152...
Editorial ANTIFONARIO.COR. 5.5.-F. 35-SAN EGIDIO ADORADO POR LOS ANGELES.