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German Religious Poem
GB 0103 MS GERM 13 · 17th century

Manuscript poem, 17th century, 'Himmelfahrt Der Ordensleute' (ascension of orders), in rhyming couplets. Folio 1r bears an inscription dated 1660, describing the text as a humorous poem on the meeting of the Roman Catholics, Jesuits, monks, etc, with the apostle Peter at the celestial gates, probably unpublished. On the last leaf (f 5v) a copper engraving is pasted, depicting the Rhine and Main from Cologne to Würzburg, and on the water boats full of Jesuits, apparently fleeing. A single Jesuit toils along the river bank with his sack full of treasures belonging to the Roman Catholic Church, which are being lost en route.

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History of Ancient Armour
GB 0103 MS ADD 215 · Late 18th century-early 19th century

Manuscript history of ancient armour with illustrations.

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Kotter Mystical Manuscript
GB 0103 MS GERM 32 · [1620s]

Manuscript volume [1620s]: Christoph Kotter's 'Mystisches Manuskript', comprising declarations of mystical experiences made before the civic and ecclesiastical authorities of the town of Sprottau. With 20 pen drawings of visions in the text.

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Leopold I Grant
GB 0103 MS DIPLOM 2 · 17th century

Grant by Leopold I to Friderich Caspar and Johann C Herman of Neuhoff, 17th century.

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Masterpieces of Hogarth
GB 0096 MS1100 · Collection · c1800-1950

Masterpieces of Hogarth Scrapbook, c 1800-1950, contains cuttings of a majority of Hogarth's paintings and drawings.

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Palmistry Treatise
GB 0103 MS LAT 30 · 15th century-16th century

Manuscript volume, probably 15th or 16th century, 'Chyromantia et Natura Planetarum', a treatise on palmistry (chiromancy), including 21 colour diagrams of hands and symbols. Bound with a number of later printed works, including Thomas Hill's The Schoole of Skil (T Iudson for W Iaggard, London, 1599).

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GB 0103 MS GERM 4 · 15th century-16th century, 1676

Gebetbuch (Book of Prayers), 15th century-16th century. There are sketches at the base of some of the folios representing views of a landscape, probably in Germany, and two sketches of the Madonna, one of them dated 1676.

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