13th Collection (#38)

Switchboard operators wearing gas-masks
Photograph showing switchboard operators in Faraday Building, City, London, wearing special gas-masks with ear-phones and mouthpieces; a precautionary

Knight & Squire / 11th C
A knight & his squire from the period of the first crusade

Genevieve Saved by Deer
Genevieve de Brabant, heroine of a popular French legend, is saved by a deer when she is abandoned in the forest

Stain Glass at Le Mans
The Apostles watch the ascension of Jesus in this window at Le Mans, France, supposed to date from the 13th century

Hypostyle Hall
The Papyrus pillars of the Great HYPOSTYLE HALL, at sunset. Begun in the reign of Rameses I and completed in the reign of Rameses II, Karnak Thebes (modern Luxor), Egypt

Emperor Zinchi Roq a
ZINCHI ROQ A (or Sinchi Roca) Second INCA EMPEROR OF PERU son of Manqo Qhapaq

Owen Jones Medieval 71
Ornaments from illuminated manuscripts of the 12th and 13th centuries

Medieval Truckle Bed
A medieval truckle bed

Scotland / Iona
The remains of the Nunnery at Iona, Scotland. Founded at the same time as the Monastery, it was built by St. Columba, who landed there in 563. Portions of the chapel are 13th century

Bloody Sunday riot in Trafalgar Square
On 13th November 1887 a demonstration organised by the Social Democratic Federation and the Irish National League in Trafalgar Square in London turned into a riot after police

Bishops Palace
The drawbridge of the Bishops Palace, Wells, Somerset. The palace dates from the early 13th century, when Bishop Jocelin Trotman received a crown licence to build it

Margrave of Nurnberg
Friedrich, Margraf von Nurnberg, is invested with the Mark of Brandenburg

13th Century French
A bourgeois couple, a lady of the court, a manservant and a sergent d armes pass in the street before la Grande Chartreuse de Paris

TEXTILES (C13-C14)
Various examples of textiles patterns from medieval France

France Scene / C12-C13
A variety of medieval scenes including a knighting (top), noblemen and women (middle) and countryfolk (bottom)

Philip Howard / Arundel
PHILIP HOWARD 13TH EARL OF ARUNDEL Roman Catholic suspected of conspiracy. Imprisoned and died in the Tower of London

Sport / Bowls C13
Medieval bowling

Monk Mathematicians
Monastic mathematicians : until the creation of universities, monastic establishments were the centres of learning

Parliament of King Edward I
The parliament of Edward I, King of Britain, consisting of clergy, aristocracy, and other representatives

French Ornamental Letter
Several ornamental letters from French manuscript Vegetius de re militari

Ornamental Initials
Ornamental initials from the Racionale divinorum officiorum of Guillaume Durand

Jesus Leaves the Tomb
He quits the tomb while the soldiers slumber - from a 13th century German psalter

Bible Ms Letters
Ornamental initial letters from an English Bible

Manuscript / Lectionary
page from a French lectionary in Latin, containing the daily Gospels throughout the year

Jesus Ascends - C13 Ms
The disciples watch as Jesus is taken up into the clouds which conceal Heaven from mortal eyes - from a French psalter

Manuscript / C13 Bible
Jesus with his mother - Jesus crucified - Saint Martin de Tours - St Peter - angels - ornamenting the Prologos of a 13th century English Bible

Hunting / Deer / 13th C
The dogs secure their catch while a gentleman on horseback blows the hunting horn

Costume / 13th C Bourgeois
A medieval middle-class couple, both richly dressed; she carries a lily; he wears brocade and ermine

Medieval Archbishop
The official habit of an English archbishop

A Byzantine Banquet
a Byzantine Banquet

English Soldiers / 13th C
English soldiers with axe sword & pike

Alexander Nevsky / Helmet
The Helmet of Alexander Nevsky, Russian hero & Prince of Novogorod

Archer / 13th Century
A French Bowman takes aim

Brotherhood Accounting
Settlement of accounts by the brotherhood of Charite-Dieu of Notre Dame of the recovery of Rouen

Agricultural Monks
French monks engaged in agriculture

British on Beach
British troops of the 13th/18th Hussars suffer a temporary hold-up on the beaches of Normandy, France

British with Prisoners
British troops of the 13th/18th Hussars, bringing in German prisoners

Knight, Prince & Templar
A Knight, A Prince & an Knight of the martial monastic order of the Templars

13th Century Court
Court scene - king and queen, bishop and courtiers

Gobelins Tapestry, Dore
Weaving tapestry at Les Gobelins, in the 13th arrondissement, Paris

German Singing Contest
Landgraf Hermann von Thuringen and wife Sophia preside over a singing contest featuring such top-flight minnesingers as Wolfram von Eschenbach and Walther von der Vogelweide

Walther Von Klingen
Walther von Klingen, a German minnesinger, thought to have lived between 1240 and 1286

Racial Type / Group of Men
Three typical Englishmen of the medieval period

A Medieval Duet
Duet for woodwind - an early form of hautbois - and bowed strings - perhaps a rebec - with an obliging friend to hold the music

Young Women / Strutt / C13
Three young English ladies

2 Monks Meet a Nun, C13
Two monks meet a nun

Social / 13C Britain
Street scene near the sea

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