The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries |
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... Croyland Abbey . It was " that beautiful and costly sphere , most curiously constructed of different metals , ac- cording to the different planets . Saturn was of cop- per , Jupiter of gold , Mars of iron , the Sun of brass , Mercury of ...
... Croyland Abbey . It was " that beautiful and costly sphere , most curiously constructed of different metals , ac- cording to the different planets . Saturn was of cop- per , Jupiter of gold , Mars of iron , the Sun of brass , Mercury of ...
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... Croyland , in Edward the Fourth's time , gave to his church nine copes of cloth of gold , exquisitely feathered . * This was perhaps embroidered imita- tion . A vestment which Cnute the Great pre- sented to this abbey was made of silk ...
... Croyland , in Edward the Fourth's time , gave to his church nine copes of cloth of gold , exquisitely feathered . * This was perhaps embroidered imita- tion . A vestment which Cnute the Great pre- sented to this abbey was made of silk ...
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... abbey of Croyland ; and the coronation mantle of Harold Harefoot , son of Cnute , which he gave to the same abbey , made of silk , and embroidered with " Hesperian apples . " Richard , who was abbot of St. Alban's from 1088 to 1119 ...
... abbey of Croyland ; and the coronation mantle of Harold Harefoot , son of Cnute , which he gave to the same abbey , made of silk , and embroidered with " Hesperian apples . " Richard , who was abbot of St. Alban's from 1088 to 1119 ...
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... Croyland Abbey was burnt in 1091 , seven hundred volumes were consumed which must have been thus laboriously ... monastery the richest in England , there were upwards of four hundred volumes in the year 1248 . But whilst there is ...
... Croyland Abbey was burnt in 1091 , seven hundred volumes were consumed which must have been thus laboriously ... monastery the richest in England , there were upwards of four hundred volumes in the year 1248 . But whilst there is ...
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