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A View of the Bridge under Langdale Pikes, Westmor...
Watercolour, View Created date: 1800-23The artist William Green produced topographical views of the Lake District both as a teaching resource that could be cop...
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Advertisement for Bowes Academy from The Times
Newspaper, Ephemera, AdvertisementDating from 1817, this is an advertisement for Bowes Academy, the nightmarish school on which Charles Dickens based Doth...
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Album of Baha’i calligraphy
Manuscript Created date: early 19th – early 20th centuryAn album of Baha’i calligraphy including childhood calligraphic exercises by Baha’u’llah and tablets by Baha’u’llah copi...
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Album of images of Hindu deities
Manuscript, Drawing, Watercolour, Illustration Created date: early 19th centuryThis album is one of two volumes that contain botanical paintings, intricate line drawings and vibrant watercolours of H...
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An Illustration of the Monastic History of St. Edm...
BookRichard Yates was a clergyman, antiquary and native of Bury St Edmunds. His father had served as custodian of Bury’s Abb...
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Banarasa-vilasa, Jain religious poetry
Manuscript Created date: 19th centuryAn anthology of Jain Digambara religious poetry. What is the manuscript? The Banārasī-vilāsa is a collection of philoso...
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Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
BookSamuel Taylor Coleridge intended Biographia Literaria to be a short preface to a collection of his poems, Sibylline Leav...
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Broadside about the tread-mill at Brixton Prison
Broadside, Ephemera, Illustration, ImageThis broadside features an illustration and description of a treadmill at Brixton Prison in London, built so that prison...
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Buddhist texts and Ten Birth Tales
Paper folding book, Manuscript Created date: 1800-1870The image shows a scene with horses and deer from Buddha’s last birth tale, Vessantara Jātaka, showing Prince Vessantara...
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Coleridge's annotated copy of Shakespeare
Book, Manuscript annotation Created date: early 19th century [Coleridge's manuscript notes]This remarkable copy of The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare contains extensive manuscript notes by the poet and critic Sam...
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Coleridge's notes on Measure for Measure
Book, Duodecimo, Engraving, Illustration, Image, Manuscript annotation Created date: early 19th century [Coleridge's manuscript notes]The poet and literary critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) regarded Measure for Measure as ‘the most painful’ or ‘...
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Collection of rules for Buddhist monks
Manuscript Created date: 19th centuryThis palm leaf manuscript contains Bhikkhu Patimokkha and Bhikkhuni Patimokkha (rules to be obeyed in communities of mon...
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Coloured illustrations of Buddhist heavens and hel...
Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript, Image Created date: 19th centuryA folding book manuscript in 59 folds made in Upper Burma. It has tooled leather covers with paper labels dated Manadala...
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Correspondence between Frances Burney and the publ...
Manuscript, Letter Created date: 1770‒1838When Frances Burney (1752–1840) first published her novel Evelina, she did so in strictest secrecy, concealing both her...
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Dastan-i Mirac
Manuscript Created date: late 18th–early 19th centuryThe Dastan- ı Miraç, is the story of the Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) ascent to heaven. The text is recited in many ...
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