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1. A dissertation on the pageants or dramatic mysteries anciently performed at Coventry, by the trading companies of that city : chiefly with reference to the vehicle, characters, and dresses of the actors : compiled, in a great degree, from sources hitherto unexplored : to which are added, the Pageant of the Shearmen & Taylors' company, and other municipal entertainers of a public nature / by Thomas Sharp.

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Creator:
Sharp, Thomas, 1770–1841
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
[6], 226, [4] p., 10 leaves of plates : ill., music ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Ancient mysteries described : especially the English miracle plays, founded on apocryphal New Testatment story, extant among the unpublished manuscripts in the British Museum; including notices of ecclesiastical shows, the festivals of Fools and asses--The English boy bishop--The descent into hell--The lord mayor's show--The guildhall giants--Christmas carols, &c. / by William Hone ; with engravings on copper and wood.

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Creator:
Hone, William, 1780–1842
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[2], 298, 2 p., [4] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

3. Condemnations for heresy at Pavia, 1580, &c.

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Date:
18--]
Physical Description:
2 p. 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Dresses and decorations of the middle ages by Henry Shaw F.S.A. ...

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Creator:
Shaw, Henry, 1800–1889
Date:
1843 [i.e. ca. 1872]
Physical Description:
2 v. ill. (part. col.) plates (part. col.) 38 cm. (in case 42 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages.

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Creator:
Shaw, Henry, 1800–1889
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
2 v. illus. (part col.) 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Fabliaux or tales / abridged from French manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth centuries by M. Le Grand ; selected and translated into English verse, by the late G. L. Way ... ; with a preface, notes, and appendix, by the late G. Ellis ...

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Creator:
Legrand, cit., 1737–1800
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Footsteps of the reformers in foreign lands.

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Date:
1862
Physical Description:
[4], 258 p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Here begynneth the prologe of Syr Johan Froissart of the Chronicles of Fraunce, Inglande, and other places adjoynynge.

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Creator:
Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?
Date:
1897
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : illustrations ; 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Liber albus: the white book of the City of London. Comp. A.D. 1419, by John Carpenter, common clerk. Richard Whitington, mayor. Tr. from the original Latin and Anglo-Norman, by Henry Thomas Riley.

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Creator:
Corporation of London
Date:
1861
Physical Description:
x p., 1 l., 8, 660 p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

10. Owain Miles and other inedited fragments of ancient English poetry.

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Date:
MDCCCXXXVII [1837]
Physical Description:
[151] p. in various pagings : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Pieces of ancient popular poetry : from authentic manuscripts and old printed copies / by Joseph Ritson.

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Date:
1833
Physical Description:
xvi, 172 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Selections of the ancient costume of Great Britain & Ireland : from the seventh to the sixteenth century, out of the collection in the possession of the author / by Charles Hamilton Smith, Esq.

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Creator:
Smith, Charles Hamilton
Date:
1814 [i.e. 1815?]
Physical Description:
[6], viii, [iv], [120] p., [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38-46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Specimens of early English metrical romances, to which is prefixed an historical introduction on the rise and progress of romantic composition in France and England.

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Creator:
Ellis, George, 1753–1815
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
viii, 600 p. front. (col.) 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon church / by the Rev. John Lingard.

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Creator:
Lingard, John, 1771–1851
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The state papers and letters of Sir Ralph Sadler, knight-banneret / edited by Arthur Clifford ... ; to which is added a memoir of the life of Sir Ralph Sadler, with historical notes, by Walter Scott.

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Creator:
Sadler, Ralph, Sir, 1507–1587
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts