EditorialPage from a Qur'an. The Qur'an. Arabia, 8th century. A page of text from an eighth century Qur'an. Image taken from The Qur'an. Originally published/produced in Arabia, 8th century. . Source: Or. 2165, f.80. Language: Arabic.
EditorialFierenbras takes the Relics (Cross, Crown, Nails and Lance) from St. Peter's altar. ROMANCES in French verse ... 14th century. Source: Egerton 3028 f.80.
EditorialA paralytic is healed by contact with one of St. Cuthbert's shoes Image taken from Life of St. Cuthbert. Prose Life of St. Cuthbert; extracts from the Historia Ecclesiastica (History of the English Church and People). Durham; last quarter of 12th cent...
EditorialPurgatorio: Dante and Virgil pass a frieze depicting the Annunciation. Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia ( The Divine Comedy ), with a commentary in Latin. 1st half of the 14th century. Source: Egerton 943, f.80. Language: Italian, Latin.
EditorialBards, musicians and dancers arrive in the morning at the door of the king's chamber to wake him, while inside a group of women attempt to rouse him from sleep and discover him to be dead. Kausalyā and Sumitrā, exhausted through their suffering on ac...
EditorialRāma and Lak?ma?a and the allies advance on Kumbhakar?a, who stands on his chariot, easily fending off the rocks and trees hurled at him by the monkeys, as well as the heroes’ arrows. Ramayana. Udaipur, c.1653. Source: Add.15297(1), f.80. Lang...
EditorialThe pleas of the young prince on horseback fail to move his chaste beloved in her window. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatures. c.1575. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3214, f.80. Language: Persian.
EditorialFour Ages of Man. Livres des Proprietez des Choses. France; early 15th century. [Miniature only] Elderly bearded man with stick facing three younger men; representing the Four Ages of Man Image taken from Livres des Proprietez des Choses. Originally ...
EditorialMap of Lancashire, 1577. Lord Burghley's Atlas. Maps of counties of England and Wales, printed and coloured; from drawings by Christopher Saxton. England [London], 1579. Source: Royal 18 D. III f.80. Language: English.
EditorialPage from a Qur'an. The Qur'an. Arabia, 8th century. A page of text from an eighth century Qur'an. Image taken from The Qur'an. Originally published/produced in Arabia, 8th century. . Source: Or. 2165, f.80. Language: Arabic.
EditorialIsraelites are beaten. Old English Illustrated Hexateuch. England [Canterbury]; second quarter of 11th centu. [Drawing only] Exodus 5, 14. The Israelites supervising the making of bricks are beaten Image taken from Old English Illustrated Hexateuch. ...
EditorialThe pleas of the young prince on horseback fail to move his chaste beloved in her window. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatures. c.1575. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3214, f.80. Language: Persian.
EditorialFierenbras takes the Relics (Cross, Crown, Nails and Lance) from St. Peter's altar. ROMANCES in French verse ... 14th century. Source: Egerton 3028 f.80.
Editorial'The Conjurer'. Engraving of a conjurer or magician in a dancing posture. He has a girdle round his waist, from which in front hangs a skin, folded over to show the animal mask; and at the side, a bag made from skins, with a long fringe. Attached to th...
EditorialMaori War Ritual. Drawings and Sketches in New Zealand. New Zealand; circa 1848-1853. (Drawing no.116) Group of Maori warriors, with tattoos, wrestling and fighting with axes and knives Image taken from Drawings and Sketches in New Zealand. Originally ...
EditorialYogi. Asanas and Mudras (Hata yoga). 19th century. Yogi in position. Image taken from Asanas and Mudras (Hata yoga). Originally published/produced in 19th century. . Source: Add. 24099, f.80. Language: Hindi.
EditorialPropagating trees and plants. Elysium Britannicum. England [Deptford, co. Kent]; circa 1660 - 1706. [Whole folio] Book II, chapter 4, concerning the propagation of trees, plants and flowers; illustrated with two sketches Image taken from Elysium Brita...
EditorialJaia of Cyzicus, with comb, mirror and sculptor's tools. Her reflection is in the mirror. De claris mulieribus. Early 15th century. Source: Royal 16 G. V, f.80. Language: French.
EditorialA Country Barber. Album of 82 drawings depicting the costume of vari. 1800 - 1801. A Country Barber (Namda Can.) exercising his profession near the Gate of a Town, Chitteldroog. November 1801. Image taken from Album of 82 drawings depicting the costum...
EditorialText page with initial 'H'. Mirandola Hours. Italy, circa 1490-1499. [Whole folio] Text page from the Little Hours of the Cross. Prayers, with decorated initial 'H' Image taken from Mirandola Hours. Originally published/produced in Italy, circa 1490-14...
EditorialKnight, in armour and tabard, holding a sword and a standard with banner and arms. Legh's Men of Arms (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms). Part 3 ff. 41-112. England, S. E. (probably London). Last quarter of the 15th century or 1...
EditorialThe death of Captain Cook'. Captain James Cook was killed in Hawaii in a fight with Hawaiians during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779. A collection of drawings by A. Buchan, S. Parkinson, and J. F. Miller, made in the Countries visi...
EditorialA paralytic is healed by contact with one of St. Cuthbert's shoes Image taken from Life of St. Cuthbert. Prose Life of St. Cuthbert; extracts from the Historia Ecclesiastica (History of the English Church and People). Durham; last quarter of 12th cent...
EditorialPurgatorio: Dante and Virgil pass a frieze depicting the Annunciation. Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia ( The Divine Comedy ), with a commentary in Latin. 1st half of the 14th century. Source: Egerton 943, f.80. Language: Italian, Latin.
EditorialPoet receiving a robe. Anthology of Diwans. Tabriz, Iran, 1314-1315. The poet under a looped-up curtain receiving a robe of honour from a Mongol prince attended by four courtiers. A miniature painting from a fourteenth century anthology of Diwans. Imag...
EditorialFaridun riding his foster nurse, the cow Birmaya, escorting Zuhhak to Mount Damavand. Garshaspnama, a poem by Abu Nasr 'Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi of Tus on the exploits of Garshasp one of the heroes of the Shahnama. 1573. Opaque watercolour. Source: Or. 1298...
EditorialMiniature of a man holding scales, flanked by two other men (for the zodiac sign Libra), from a calendar page for September. Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal 2 B. VII...
EditorialA bas-de-page scene of a woman with birds on a perch. 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.80....
EditorialA young Maori boy with facial tattoo. Sketches of scenery, portraits of natives, with representations of ceremonies, costume, etc., in New Zealand, done in sepia, colours, or pencil. 1842-1853. Source: Add. 19953 f.80, plate 225.
EditorialJean Lyon killing the bailiff of Ghent, with banners of the Count of Flanders and of gilds. . Jean Froissart, Chroniques , vol. 2. (Froissart's Chronicles). Netherlands, S. Last quarter of the 15th century, before 1483. Source: Royal 18 E. I f.80.
EditorialRāma and Lak?ma?a and the allies advance on Kumbhakar?a, who stands on his chariot, easily fending off the rocks and trees hurled at him by the monkeys, as well as the heroes’ arrows. Ramayana. Udaipur, c.1653. Source: Add.15297(1), f.80. Lang...
EditorialPoem of William Wordsworth. Poems in Two Volumes. England [Coleorten, co. Leics.]; circa 1806-1807. [Whole folio] Poem of William Wordsworth, 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', [afterwards known as 'Daffodils'], in the hand of his wife Mary. This was the ...
EditorialA plant with red petals. Coloured drawings of plants, copied from nature in the Roman States, by Gerardo Cibo. Vol. I. Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Physician, of Siena: Extracts from his edition of Dioscorides' "de re Medica":. Italy, c. 1564-1584. Source: ...
EditorialIllustrated page 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 Northe...
EditorialTwo Prisoners in Irons, from Images of Spain Album (F), 80, 1812?20, Brush and brown wash on laid paper, Sheet: 8-1/8 x 5-5/8 in. (20.6 x 14.3cm), Drawings, Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746?1828 Bordeaux).