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A View of the Bridge under Langdale Pikes, Westmor...
Watercolour, ViewThe 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
ManuscriptAn 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, IllustrationThis 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
ManuscriptAn anthology of Jain Digambara religious poetry. What is the manuscript? The Banārasī-vilāsa is a collection of philoso...
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Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata sketches
ManuscriptPresented to the British Museum by Vincent Novello on July 27, 1843, this relic of Beethoven’s creative process is indee...
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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, ManuscriptThe 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 annotationThis 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 annotationThe 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
ManuscriptThis 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, ImageA 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, LetterWhen Frances Burney (1752–1840) first published her novel Evelina, she did so in strictest secrecy, concealing both her...
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