Written Collection (page 5)

Sonnet On The Garance Lake
A romantic illustration of what is possibly the artist drawing himself, Lucien Marie Francois Metivet, reading a sonnet that he has written for an appreciative lady who is sat in the boat with him

Don Quixote And Sancho Panza
An album sketch portraying Sancho Panza, a fictional character from Don Quixote a novel written by Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605

Maria Pita - Spanish heroine
Maria Pita (Maria Mayor Fernandez de Camara y Pita) (1565-1643). Spanish heroine. Philip II awarded her the rank of ensign for the defense of Corunna against the attack of the English Armada in 1589

British Dominions General Insurance Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for the British Dominions General Insurance Co. Ltd, promoting the All-in household insurance policy

Odds and Ends
An illustration for an article written by Doctor A. W. Oxford, in Colour Magazine, titled Odds and Ends. The image shows an array of items

Men Were Deceivers Ever
A painting of a woman in a bright red dress, performing a curtsy to a baby, who is sat on the grass, in the centre of four tall trees

Titanic postcard from passenger and victim Alfonzo Meo
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - postcard written by Third-Class passenger and victim Alfonzo Meo-Martino from Queenstown, Ireland, on 11 April 1912

White Star Line, RMS Titanic - Charles Crumplin letter
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - First Class Bedroom Steward and victim Charles Crumplin, handwritten letter on Titanic stationery with White Star Line watermark, undated but written from Queenstown

White Star Line, Titanic lettercard written on board
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - Second Class passenger and victim Henry James Beauchamp, rare Titanic lettercard written on board and posted with original one penny stamp

White Star Line, Olympic and Titanic postcard
White Star Line, Olympic and Titanic 1912 postcard written in French, to say that they have arrived in America on the Olympic. Date: 1912

RMS Titanic - Archibald Gracie, passenger and survivor
RMS Titanic - Colonel Archibald Gracie IV, First Class passenger and survivor, who died in December 1912 from complications following exposure to icy water

RMS Titanic - Arthur Williams, storekeeper and victim
RMS Titanic - signed photo postcard written by First Class storekeeper and victim Arthur John Williams. The postcard was postally used on 24 December 1909

RMS Titanic - letter in Swedish, Carl Asplund, victim
RMS Titanic - Lillian Asplund Collection - a letter written in Swedish, including the words of an old Swedish song, and mentioning his son Oscar. Recovered from Carl Asplund's body

RMS Titanic - letter to Carl Asplund, victim
RMS Titanic - Lillian Asplund Collection - a letter written in Swedish, dated Worcester, 28 February 1912, to Carl Asplund. I have received your letter today

Harland & Wolff - rare diary with handwritten entries, written by a member of the drawing office describing the events in the yard in 1880

RMS Titanic - recipe book owned by William Proctor, brother of Titanic chef Charles Proctor. Hardbound volume with his name and date written on the front

RMS Lusitania - handwritten letter on printed stationery
RMS Lusitania - letter written on board the Lusitania by Stewardess Ann Roberts on the outward leg of the journey that would culminate in the loss of the Lusitania

Noted Breviary (Incunable Fragment)
Fragment of a leaf from an incunable breviary, parchment. Includes printed 4-line staves but the musical notation has not been added

Epistles of St Jerome (Fragment)
Bifolium from a religious commentary, possibly an edition of the Epistles of St Jerome, or similar, parchment. Main body text in brown in a single column in a Caroline minuscule

Philosophical Text (Fragment)
Bifolium from an unidentified text, parchment. Content seems to be a commentary of philosophical and religious nature. The text on each folio is written in two different but near-contemporary hands

Justinian Digesta, Book XXXIII (Fragment)
Double folio, parchment, from Justinian's Digesta. Main body text in black ink written in two columns with contemporary marginal and interlineal gloss

Financial Records?
Manuscript records on paper, possibly financial or legal records. Probably originally pages from a volume or volumes, they have been cut into regularly sized rectangles

Der Sachsenspiegel (Fragment)
Fragment of a copy of Der Sachsenspiegel or Sassen Speyghel, which is a compendium of German law notable for having been written in Middle Low German (rather than Latin) in about 1220

Lotze Manuscript (Fragment)
Two manuscript leaves from Rudolph Hermann Lotze's Metaphysik, written and corrected in the same hand. Corrections are made in ink and red pencil. On paper

Charter (Fragment)
Fragment of a charter, parchment, apparently recording the sale of a house by (-) Wingartman and his wife in the neighbourhood of Trier in the year (13-)

Music cover, We Must Have Another, written and composed by Fred Malcolm and F P Sanford, sung by Shaun Glenville Date: 1927

Music cover, Climbing Up the Ladder of Love, fox trot song, written by Raymond Klages, composed by Jesse Greer, featured by The Savoy Orpheans Date: 1926

Music cover, My Sunday Girl, fox-trot song, written by Herman Ruby and Bud Cooper, composed by Sam H Stept Date: 1927

Music cover, Give Me Your Consent Dear, written and composed by Philip Barder, sung by Miss Louie Gilbert Date: circa 1890

Music cover, Killaloe, sung by Mr E J Lonnen
Music cover, Killaloe, written and composed by Robert Martin, sung by Mr E J Lonnen at the Gaiety Theatre in Miss Esmeralda Date: 1887

Hebrew Inscription dating from the 14th century
Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona. Hebrew inscription dating from the 14th century, located on Marlet Street in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)

The Australian Aboriginal Photo
A photograph from The Australian Aboriginal, showing a man kneeling, possibly in worship, beside a patterned design on the floor beside him. Date: circa 1925

The Ornithologist of Cobbitty
An illustration of two birds, perched together on a thin, draping branch, with a decorative column design at each side. Used in section written by William Hardy Wilson, entitled

The Curtain Illustration
An illustration in reference to a poem, written by Australian poet, Zora Bernice May Cross, showing a woman in a blue dress, hiding behind a stage curtain

Miss Edith Evans as Mrs Millimant
Oil painting of London Born actress, Miss Edith Evans costume dressed in an elaborate blue dress, using a red and white fan, playing the role of Mrs

Lockheed RF-104G Starfighter D-8133
Koninklijke Luchtmacht - Lockheed RF-104G Starfighter D-8133 (msn 683-8133), This aircraft was written off on 01 December 1981, after a bird-strike

The Flying Squad, film by Edgar Wallace, a British Lion picture Date: 1929

John Longden and Henry Vibart in The Flying Squad
John Longden and Henry Vibart in film The Flying Squad written by Edgar Wallace Date: 1929

The World's First Postcard
The idea of a postal card which could be used at half the letter rate was that of Heinrich von Stephan in 1865. Later that year

McDonnell F-4J-47-MC Phantom 158367 (msn 4153), after being written off on 19 April 1972, this aircraft was mounted on a pole as the gate guardian for marine Corps Air Station Yuma, in Arizona

North American F-100D Super Sabre 55-3758
United States Air Force - North American F-100D-30-NA Super Sabre 55-3758 (msn 223-440, FE490), at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base for storage-disposal. Converted to QF-100D drone no

BAe Jetstream 31 OY-SVP City of Skive
British Aerospace Jetstream 3102 OY-SVP City of Skive (msn 626, ex G-31-626, D-CONU and G-LAKJ), of Sun Air. This aircraft was written off and scrapped after a ground collision with a GPU at Kastrup

Piper PA-32R Saratoga PH-PSA
Piper PA-32R-301T Saratoga PH-PSA (msn 32R-8429019), of Pegasus Sea Air Beheer & Management. (Written off on 27 July 1991). Date: circa 1990

Morane-Saulnier MS. 880B Rallye Club ZK-CBW
Morane-Saulnier MS.880B Rallye Club ZK-CBW (msn 5201), at Wellington, NZ. in December 1962. (Written off at Lichfield on 12 October 1968 and rebuilt as ZK-CDE). Date: 1962

Morane-Saulnier MS. 885 Super Rallye ZK-CGZ
Morane-Saulnier MS.885 Super Rallye ZK-CGZ (msn 9), of NZ Aerosales Flying School, at Whenuapai, NZ. (Written off near Lake Rotoiti, Rotorua on 13 April 1974). Date: 1964

Victa Airtourer 100 ZK-CDQ (msn 55). (Written off at Pukekohe in May 1973). Date: circa 1964

Britten-Norman - Cushioncraft CC. 5 No. 001
Britten-Norman - Cushioncraft CC.5 No.001, at Hovershow 66, held on Browndown near Gosport, on 6 June 1966. (During tests off Priory Bay (Isle of Wight)

Piper PA-32 Cherokee 6 ZK-CNE
Piper PA-32-260 Cherokee 6 ZK-CNE (msn ), at Goreria, NZ. (Written off on 2 May 1974). Date: 1967

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