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Chronological tables of the world: commencing wth. the creation and ending with the nativity of Jesus Christ, comprehending ye space of 3950 years. Digested into ye same methd. with ye chronological tables of Col. W. Parsons, by the Reverend Mr. Adam Blandy ... To which ar added, the characters of the high priests, emperours, kings, judges, &c, mention'd in ye tables. By William Blandy, ...
Blandy, Adam, 1684 or 1685-Date: 1727?]- Books
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The Heavenly damsel; or, The parent's blessing: Being a true relation of a young girl of nine years of age, in Potton, five miles from Bedford in Bedfordshire, who coming from school, was visited by an angel, who told her the time of her death. To which is added, the sinners redemption; wherein is discovered the nativity of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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Rose, 1674 : A new almanack for the year, from the nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1674. being second from the bissextile or, leap-year; and from the creation of the world, 5649. Calculated for the meridian of the honourable city of London, whose latitude is 51. degrees 32. minutes, and may serve for any other part of England. By George Rose mathem.
Rose, George (Mathematician)Date: 1674- Books
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Rose 1702. A new almanack for the year from the nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1702. Being the second from bissextile or leap-year. And from the creation of the world, 5651. Calculated for the meridian of the Honourable city of London whose latitude is 51 degrees 32 minutes, and may serve for any other part of England. By George Rose, mathem.
Rose, George (Mathematician)Date: 1702- Books
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Rose, 1677 : a new almanack for the year from the nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1677, being the first from bissextile or leap-year, and from the creation of the world 5697 : calculated for the meridian of the honourable city of London whose latitude is 51 degrees 32 minutes, and may serve for any other part of England / by George Rose.
Rose, George (Mathematician)Date: 1677- Pictures
A wolf, a dog and a rabbit inspecting a foetus in the womb, representing the nativity (of Christ?). Drawing by M. Birch, 1972.
Birch, Martin, active approximately 1968-1973.Date: Dec. 71 [December 1971]Reference: 2850796iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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The Virgin Mary and the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes; Joseph sits nearby. Etching by F. de Grado.
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Herbert, speculum anni ab incarnatione verbi 1653, or, An almanack and prognostication for this present year, which according to the computation of the Church of England, is from the nativity and birth of Jesus Christ 1653 : being the first after bissextile or leap-year : calculated and composed for the north latitude of 52 degrees : furnished and replenished with astronomical calculations and astrological predictions ... / by Thomas Herbert.
Herbert, Thomas, Philo-mathematicus.Date: [1653]- Books
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On the nature of the most ingenious arts, and the benefits of indulgence to the most curious things. A poem.
Date: [1747]- Books
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The life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ; Containing the genealogy of our glorious redeemer; his nativity, preservation, circumcision, Baptism, fasting, temptation, ministry, doctrine, calling the apostles, miracles, parables, travels, transfiguration, passion, institution of the sacrament, crucifixion, burial, resurrection, appearance, and ascension. Together with the lives and sufferings of his Holy Apostles, evangelists, and other primitive martyrs, who have laid down their lives in the glorious cause of Christianity, the foundation on which all our hopes of eternal happiness are fixed. To which will be added, a full defence of Christianity against all the objections of atheists, deists, and the insidels of the present age, who have endeavoured to place mankind on a level with the beasts that perish. The whole being calculated to promote the knowledge of our holy religion, a firm faith in the merits of our blessed redeemer, and the practice of every Christian virtue. By the Reverend John Fleetwood, D.D.
Fleetwood, John.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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The new and complete evangelical history of the life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Containing a full and complete account of our glorious redeemer; particularly his nativity, genealogy, ... To which will be added, the lives and sufferings of his holy apostles, evangelists, &c. ... Together with a calculation of the present inhabitants of the world, shewing what proportion Christianity bears to the Jews, Turks, and Heathens. To which will also be subjoined, a full defence of Christianity against all the objections of Jews, Arians, Socinians, Materialists, Atheists, deists, infidels, and free-thinkers, of the present age; who have endeavoured to place mankind on a level with the beasts that perish. The whole carefully collected from the four histories of the gospel, as written by the Evangelists, from the acts of the apostles, from the epistles, from the prophets, from Josephus, and other ecclesiastical historians, and from various other authentic records; and so digested and arranged, as to form a regular, connected, and uniform narrative and harmony of the gospels; interspersed with a great variety of curious particulars on the subject, barely alluded to in scripture, but explained at large by cotemporary authors, who wrote on the same transactions, and corroborated the great truths of Christianity, upon which our eternal happiness depends. By the Rev. T. Priestley, author of the Evangelical exposition of the Bible, a valuable family work, now publishing in numbers with great applause. The whole printed on a large new letter, and adorned with near thirty copper-plates, most elegantly designed and engraved by eminent artists.
Priestley, T. (Timothy), 1734-1814.Date: [1793?]- Pictures
The Virgin and the profile of Saint Joseph with a lamb in the place of the Christ Child. Drawing by M. Birch, 1971.
Birch, Martin, active approximately 1968-1973.Date: Sept. 71 [September 1971]Reference: 2849053iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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The new and complete life of our blessed Lord and saviour, Jesus Christ: that great example, as well as saviour of mankind. Containing a More Complete, Authentic, Ample, Accurate, Instructive, Universal, and Full Account (freed from Popish Superstition, and other Errors) than was ever before Published, of all the Real Facts, relating to the Exemplary Life, Meritorious Sufferings, and Triumphant Death of Our Glorious Redeemer, Who took upon himself our Sinful Nature, Was Crucified for our Sins, Rose Again for our Justification, Ascended into Heaven, and now Sitteth at the Right-Hand of God, making Intercession for Us; Particularly his Incarnation, Nativity, Genealogy, Baptism, Preservation, Circumcision, Presentation, Early Transactions, Divine Mission, Fasting, Ministry, Temptation, Doctrines, Calling and Appointment of the Apostles, Miracles, Parables, Travels, Humility, Charity, Patience, Meekness, Sufferings, Transfiguration, Passion, Institution of the Sacraments; Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, Appearance, and Ascension, &c. &c. &c. To which is Added, A New, Complete, and Authentic History of the Lives, Transactions, Sufferings, and Deaths, of his Holy Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, And other Eminent Persons and Primitive Christians, who first Propagated the Christian Religion, and to cruel Persecutors laid down their Lives in the Glorious Cause of Jesus Christ; particularly St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, St. John, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Andrew, St. James the Great, St. Philip, St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas, St. James the Less, St. Simon, St. Jude, St. Matthias, St. Barnabas, St. Stephen, Timothy, Silas, Mary Magdalene, Mary Sister of Lazarus, Mary of Cleophas, Mary of Salome, Trophimus, Tychicus, Tertius, Linus, Onesiphorus, Stephanus, Phebe, Sosipater, Clement, Ananias, Nicolas, Nicodemus, Joseph, Philemon, Priscilla, Titus, &c. Also, A New, Useful, and Interesting Account of the Life of the Messiah's great Forerunner John the Baptist; And likewise the Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Together with A Faithful Account of the Successors of the Apostles, for Three Hundred Years after the Crucifixion, in the five great Apostolical Churches. Comprehending, The Whole Doctrine of Christianity, the Evidences fairly stated upon which it is founded, and the Manner of its Establishment in different Parts of the World. - Including a Complete Defence of Christianity, containing Plain and Satisfactory Answers to all the Objections made against our Holy Religion, by Jews, Turks, Atheists, Deists, Infidels, and Free-Thinkers of the present Age, who are a Disgrace to Human Nature, and strive to level Mankind with the Brute Creation; whereby the Religion of the great Redeemer of Mankind is proved to be Genuine and truly Divine. The Whole Interspersed with Practical Improvements, and Useful Remarks, Familiarly Adapted to every Capacity, and designed to Promote, in every Christian, the necessary Practice of Faith and Repentance, as the only appointed Means whereby God can be Reconciled with Man. This Complete Work being the Result of long Study and Experience, and not a hasty Performance, has been regularly digested and collected, not only from the Evangelists, Epistles, &c. but also from Josephus, the most judicious Ecclesiastical Historians, and other Books as well as Manuscripts (ancient and modern) of Undoubted Authority. It will therefore comprise a great Variety of the most Important, Valuable, and Curious Matter relating to the Life and Death of our Blessed Saviour and his Apostles, &c. not to be found in any other Work of the Kind whatever. By Paul Wright, D. D. Vicar of Oakley, &c. in Essex, late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge; And Author of the Christian's New and Complete British Family Bible;-of the New and Complete Edition of Fox's Original Book of Martyrs;-And of The New Edition of the Whole Book of Common Prayer, with Notes, and other necessary Illustrations;-All of which respective Works are universally approved of in every Respect, by the Public in general, who have perused the Numbers already published. Embellished with the most elegant, valuable, and numerous set of large copper-plate prints ever published in a work of this kind; finely engraved from the original Drawings of Hamilton, Chalmers, West, Samuel Wale, Esq. &c. by those ingenious and celebrated Artists, Messrs. Pollard, Rennoldson, Taylor, Tookey, Smith, Page, Granger, Morris, Royce, Golder, Collier, Parker, and Other Eminent Masters.
Fleetwood, John.Date: [1790?]- Books
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A critical examination of the Holy Gospels according to St. Matthew and St. Luke, with regard to the history of the birth and infancy of our Lord Jesus Christ. By the author of the Vindication of the history of the Septuagint.
Hayes, Charles, 1678-1760.Date: 1738- Books
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The life of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Containing the genealogy of our glorious redeemer, his nativity, Preservation, Circumcision, Baptism, Fasting, Temptation, Ministry, Doctrine, Calling the Apostles, Miracles, Parables, Travels, Transfiguration, Passion, Institution of the Sacrament, Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, Appearance, and ascension. Together with the lives and sufferings of his holy apostles, Evangelists, And other Primitive Martyrs, Who have laid down their Lives in the glorious Cause of Christianity, the Foundation on which all our Hopes of Eternal Happiness are fixed. To which is added, a full defence of Christianity, Against all the Objections of Atheists, Deists, and Infidels, who have endeavoured to place Mankind on a Level with the Beasts that perish. The Whole being calculated to promote The Knowledge of our Holy Religion, a firm Faith in the Merits of Our Blessed Redeemer, and the Practice of every Christian Virtue. By the Reverend John Fleetwood, D. D. Author of the Christian's Dictionary; and of the History of the Holy Bible, Published by the King's Authority.
Fleetwood, John.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Pictures
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The shepherds observe the newly-born Jesus Christ. Etching by Annibale Carracci, ca. 1606.
Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.Date: [1606?]Reference: 21958i- Books
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Two pleasant ditties, one of the birth, the other of the passion of Christ : To the tune of Dulcina. Of Natiuity.
Date: [1629]- Books
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A poem on the nativity of Our Blessed Saviour.
Date: 1719- Pictures
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Shepherds adoring the Christ Child. Etching by Robert van Audenaerd after Pietro da Cortona.
Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669.Date: [between 1600 and 1699?]Reference: 46424i- Pictures
The adoration of the shepherds at the birth of Christ. Colour etching by A. Scacciati, 1770, after J. Chimenti da Empoli.
Chimenti, Jacopo, 1551-1640.Date: [1766?]Reference: 2477418i- Pictures
The nativity of Christ: the Virgin and Saint Joseph adoring the Christ Child. Engraving by V. Franceschini, 17--.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 2472455i- Books
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Christ's nativity the good tidings of great joy to all people. A sermon preached on Christmas-Day, in the parish-church of Collingtree. By John Clarke, rector of Collingtree in Northamptonshire. Published at request.
Clarke, John, 1723 or 1724-1811.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Pictures
The nativity of Christ. Engraving by A. Sadeler II after H. von Aachen and J. Hoefnagel.
Aachen, Hans von, 1552-1615.Date: [1590?]Reference: 2917588i- Pictures
The nativity of Christ: the Virgin and Saint Joseph adoring the Christ Child. Engraving by M.R. after Pietro Vannucci, il Perugino.
Perugino, approximately 1450-1523.Date: [between 1700 and 1799?]Reference: 2818725i- Pictures
A mother and her swaddled baby in Jerusalem, attended by two women and a little girl. Coloured lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1841.
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.Date: 1843Reference: 730246i