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  • A winged woman holding a lyre and a book; representing Poetry. Process print after M.A. Raimondi after Raphael.
  • Page of poetry from 'Newes from the Dead', 1651
  • Page of poetry from 'Newes from the Dead', 1651
  • Page of poetry from 'Newes from the Dead', 1651
  • Page of poetry from 'Newes from the Dead', 1651
  • Page of poetry from 'Newes from the Dead', 1651
  • A winged woman holding a lyre and a book; representing poetry. Engraving by P. Ghigi after L. Agricola after Raphael.
  • A miser looks at his hoard of gold through his spectacles, with six lines of poetry by J. Gay. Stipple engraving by Balston.
  • Young women representing poetry and drawing, with examples of sculpture, literature, music, painting, and objets d'art. Wood engraving by H. Linton after A. Lumley.
  • The back of a double-sided qit'a, a piece or selection or fragment of poetry or prose mounted and given as gifts or used as wall decorations
  • A c. 16th century qit'a Nasat'liq. A piece or selection or fragment of poetry or prose mounted and given as gifts or used as wall decorations.
  • Four women representing the arts of abundance, music, poetry and painting with a boy displaying a sheet of paper to them. Etching by A. Scacciati after A.D. Gabbiani.
  • The art of cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of poetry. With some letters to Dr. Lister, and others: occassion'd principally by the title of a book publish'd by the Doctor, being the works of Apicius Coelius, concerning the soups and sauces of the antients. With an extract of the greatest curiosities contain'd in that book. To which is added Horace's Art of poetry, in Latin / By the author of the Journey to London [i.e. W. King].
  • A c. 16th century qit'a Nasat'liq. A piece or selection or fragment of poetry or prose mounted and given as gifts or used as wall decorations. This is a fragment of a chronicle. Anonymous.
  • William Taylor, as a tailor holding a pair of scissors in one hand, a tape measure across his arm and a book of poetry in the other hand, riding on the back of a goose. Coloured etching, 1811.
  • Thomas Wakley shown as Orpheus with his lyre, opposing the Literary Copyright Act of 1842 on the grounds that he could write poetry according to a recipe; and British tradesmen offering shoddy coats for sale. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • A c. 16th century qit'a Nasat'liq. A piece or selection or fragment of poetry or prose mounted and given as gifts or used as wall decorations. Text comprises sayings of Abu l-Hasan al-Harquani, one of the exalted of the Awliya (saints), a contemporary ruler of Gazna, Mahmud Gaznawi (d. 1030). Signed: Muhammad Husayn
  • European priest carrying a book and holding a rosary. At the top of the page is written Faranswa-e Pariz (Francois, the Parisian). Under the minature is writen Hakim Murtaza Husayn, probably the priests Persian name. The front of a double-sided qit'a, a piece or selection or fragment of poetry or prose mounted and given as gifts or used as wall decorations
  • Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Six soldiers and a captain on a song sheet for children. Colour line block with letterpress after T. Prentis and E. Farjeon.
  • Four groups of different generations of people in varying relationships. Colour line block with letterpress after E. Pyke and E. Farjeon.
  • Thesaurus thesaurorum
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