16th Collection (page 69)

16th Century Koran Page
A fine manuscript page on handmade paper from the Ottoman Koran, finely scripted and embellished in gold leaf. Reverse of page

Puritan Family, 1563
A Puritan family - father sits separately, while his pregnant wife sits with their 4 children nestled around her. One child holds a stick surmounted by a horses head

Carols Indoors 16 / 17C
A family party sing carols by the fireside

Wassail [Buss]
Wassailers at the door of a manor house are offered the wassail bowl by the lady of the house

Cultural Activities 16C
Mercury rides over in cockerel-driven chariot as citizens practice arts & sciences: painting, sculpture, music, medicine, astronomy & others

COCKAIGNE
The wondrous Land of Cockaigne, where all the girls are willing and all the beer is free

Folklore / Bigorne
The bigorne is a sexist creature which eats men who do as their wives tell them; though no longer politically correct, it may not be extinct

Syrians Go to Hormuz
Aleppo (Syrian) merchants travel to the twice-a-year market at Ormuz (Persian Gulf), the biggest trading place with the Orient

Flagellants
FLAGELLANTS roamed western Europe periodically from the 11th to the 16th centuries, scourging themselves in a quasi-ecstatic state

Depart for Sabbat
Witches prepare the magic potion which will enable them to ride their broomsticks to the Sabbat

Drinking Outside an Inn
A party outside an inn

16th C Smithfield Street
Street scene in Smithfield, London

London Merchant Taylor (Sir Ralph Blackwell)

US Indians Smoking Pipes
Native Americans gathering and smoking

Types of Ruff Late C16Th
French and English ladies wearing elaborate RUFFS

Wolves in 16th century Scandinavia
Wolves and their ravages in 16th century Scandinavia

Travellers defending themselves from wolves
Travellers in a horse-drawn sleigh in 16th century Sweden defend themselves from attacking wolves with gun, crossbow and pike

Building from Wood

Building from Stone

Montacute Post Office
A Post Office situated within an elegant Elizabethan building at Montacute, South Somerset. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Montacute House, England
Montacute House, situated in the South Somerset village of Montacute. A fantastic example of late Elizabethan architecture The three floored mansion, constructed of local Ham Hill stone

Motoring in the Bois in style in 1900: Vis-a Vis style
This is a vis-a vis (face to face) style of seating for the motor car common to the little, slow, primitive cars of Victorian motoring

Young Evacuees
Two young evacuees with their belongings

Woman Yokes Man 16C
A wife yokes her husband like a beast of burden, then sits on him and applies the whip

Wild Man, Wild Woman
The Wild Man and his mate used in the printers device of Peter Treveris, German-born printer in London in the early 16th century

Ploughing, 16th Century
A 16th century plowman plods behind a pair of oxen who are urged on by his companion - illustration to Richard Pynsons Boke of Husbandrie

Banker, Circa 1500
A banker of the 15/16th century, with his wife

Leathersellers Hall
An ancient nunnery, acquired by the Leathersellers in 1543, but demolished in 1799

London / Staples Inn
Staples Inn, Holborn, still more or less surviving

16th Century Townhouses
Houses in Butcher Row, London; the building on the right, demolished in 1798, is supposed to have been where the Gunpowder Plotters did their plotting

16th Century Town House
A house erected in Henry VIIIs time on Little Tower Hill, London, and still standing in 1792 when this engraving was made

Newcastle on Tyne / 16th C
Newcastle on Tyne/16th C

Costume / Men / Mercenar1530
A mercenary soldier, possibly German, in stripy costume with sword, relaxing in an inn with a large tankard of beer: the dice on the floor show that he has been gambling

Theatre of Performance
A dramatic performance in an inn yard

Noblemans Costume C16
Typical costume for a well off nobleman during the reign of the Tudor monarchs (actually Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montague)

C16 Football / De Passe
Spectators watch a game of football

16th Century Armour
An ornate suit of English armour

16th Century Printer
A 16th century French printer, Robert Estienne, with a box of type

Selling Books, 16th Cent
In a western European town, a travelling bookseller offers treasures from his donkey cart to scholarly customers

Sweden / Stockholm / 16th C
A bird s-eye view of the city

Willem Cayo of Breda
WILLEM CAYO OF BREDA 16th century Dutch artist

Hanseatic Ships
Armed vessels of the German Hanseatic League trading fleet

CANNON ON MARY ROSE
A shipboard cannon on the Mary Rose, wrecked in the reign of Henry VIII

Beaumont House, London
Example of domestic architecture: Beaumont House, Butcher Row, Temple Bar, the first residence of the Duke of Sully, ambassador of Henry the Great (IV) of France in 1603

Wilhelm I / Vfair 1871
KAISER WILHELM I Emperor of Germany, making a meal of it during the Franco- Prussian War, egged on by Carl V, 16th c Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain

Miser & Cripple
A miser keeps his gold away from a begging cripple

Henry Viii / Council
King Henry VIII in his Council Chamber

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