Two young women, attired in low-cut, fine dresses, their veils pulled back over their hair exposing their pretty, young faces, sit in a semi-embrace on a blue loveseat in a garden, one looking lovingly into the eyes of the other with her hand posed to...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, chart, map and printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Benches, Convents, Gardens, Garden walls, Monks, and Nuns
Manuscript on parchment containing Ceremonials for a nuns' convent and related texts. Contents: 1) Ceremonial for the vestment of a nun. 2) Ceremonial for the communion of a sick nun. 3) Ceremonial for administering the extreme unction. 4) Ceremonial ...
Description:
In Latin and Dutch.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Flanders (Belgium)
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Convents, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monastic and religious life of women, Nuns, Processionals (Liturgical books), and Religious life and customs
France Benedictine, ou carte generale des abbayes, & prieurez conventuels de l'Ordre de S. Benoit, tant d'hommes, que de filles, au jour a Norimberg, a 1738
Description:
Bottom left shows St. Maurice offering a book of prayers to Theodebert I, King of France who answers: "Plura Maurus precibus quam Nos Armis."
Publisher:
Recude[n]tibus Homan[n]ian. Heredib
Subject (Geographic):
France--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Homann Erben (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Benedictine monasteries--France--Maps--Early works to 1800., Benedictine nuns--France--Maps--Early works to 1800., Convents, and Convents--France--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript inventory, on parchment, in a secretary hand, of ceremonial plate and jewels collected from religious houses in Hampshire, Wiltshire, Glocestershire, Wiltshire, and Hertfordshire by several of the King's Commissioners for the suppression of...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.
Subject (Topic):
Church plate, Convents, Church and state, Monasteries, Monasticism and religious orders, and Secularization
A design for St. Hubert's Priory, a perspective with part plan showing piers of the tower. The steeple has been drawn on a separate piece of paper and mounted to the sheet with the main building, cut to line up with the roof line
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount below drawing.
