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Title: Caradoc or Caractacus 1757 [substituted for 1747]

Author: Davies, Sneyd

Attribution: Sneyd Davies

Date(s): 1757 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 19

Contents: Imagined account of the ancient British chief Caractacus's

defiance when brought at last to Rome, praising his heroism and

wishing the English army presently fighting a war against France

could be similarly inspired

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[ca. 1450-1500]

Decoration: 5 (2 to 6-line) initials in blue or pink patterned in white, infilled with flowers, and on gold grounds, within full framed floral borders including designs of hens, berries, a bird and a ...

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BC MS Lt q 20, f.10r: The opening of Henry Pemberton's poem
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Collection of English verse, begun on March 26th 1732 by William Jermy of Norfolk

Jermy, William

1732-c.1741

Bound in modern cream vellum over boards, with black ink lettering on front cover and spine (the latter with NORFOLK MSS); modern endpapers and flyleaves. F.3r: ornamental ink cartouche with author/co...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

Braddyll family

[ca. 1470-1480]

f. iii is a medieval flyleaf. Decoration: 1 full-page miniature depicting the burial service and 1 smaller miniature of the Virgin and Child, defaced in the Reformation period, and partially repaint...

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