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Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.
Webster, William Bullock.Date: 18 January 1856Reference: 21347i
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Golden Temple, Amritsar. Coloured transfer lithograph.
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[Consolations for the soule of man].
Date: 1589
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Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: activities of pilgrims. Pencil drawing by R. Cleaver.
Cleaver, Reginald, active 1894.Reference: 20405i
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Orders thought meet by His Maiestie, and his Privy Councell to bee executed throughout the counties of this realm, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may bee heerafter, infected with the plague ... Also, an advice set downe by the best learned in Physick ... containing sundry good rules and easie medicines.
Date: 1625
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Circular : to the clergy and laity of the diocese of New-York : Brethren: the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the sickness that destroyeth in the noon-day, having, as there is reason to believe, in the shape of the dreadful Cholera which has so extensively scourged the nations of the earth, reached the American shore ... / Benjamin T. Onderdonk.
Onderdonk, Benjamin T. (Benjamin Tredwell), 1791-1861.Date: 1832
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An apothecary praying for a host of illnesses to descend on his customers so that he can make more money. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: 30 July 1801Reference: 16388i
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Crimean War: cityscape view of hospital and cemetary at Scutari. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker after W. Simpson.
Simpson, William, 1823-1899.Reference: 21430i
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Crimean War, Scutari: hospital and cemetery. Coloured lithograph by J. Needham, 1856, after W. Simpson.
Simpson, William, 1823-1899.Date: 26 April 1856Reference: 21459i
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Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: immersion ceremony at the Holy Well. Wood engraving by H. Lanos.
Lanos, Henri.Reference: 20374i
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A forme of common prayer: to be used upon the 17th of November, and the 8th of December: on which dayes a fast is appointed by His Majesties proclamation, for the removing of the plague, and other judgements of God, from this kingdom / Set forth by authority.
Date: 1640
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An AIDS-infected man praying to God for strength to care for himself and others like him; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the NACO in collaboration with WHO. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
Date: [1997?]Reference: 677303i
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Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: pilgrims praying and confessing by the roadside. Wood engraving.
Reference: 20361i
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Anglo-Saxon remedies, charms, and prayers from British Library Ms Harley 585 : the Lacnunga / edited and translated with introduction, appendices, commentary, and glossaries by Edward Pettit.
Date: 2001
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The crums of comfort with godly prayers.
Sparke, Michael, -1653Date: 1628
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A Nevve boke conteyninge an exortacio[n] to the sicke, the sycke mans prayer, a prayer with thankes at ye purificatio[n] of wome[n], a consolatio[n] at buriall.
Date: M.D.LXJ [1561]
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Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk: private prayers. Etching by B. Winkles, 1837, after H.K. Browne.
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.Date: 1 April 1837Reference: 20013i
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Phylactères ou préservatifs contre les maladies, les maléfices et les enchantements : exorcismes ou conjurations, ensemble les pratiques et croyances populaires les plus répandues ouvrage rempli de renseignements curieux / publié par Albano [pseud.].
Blocquel, Simon-François, 1780-1863.Date: [1848]
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A woollen shroud, or, Learn to dye : to be given at burials / by C.B.A. Æ. LXX. & XXIII.
Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687Date: 1679
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The sick man visited and furnished with instructions, meditations, and prayers suitable to his condition ... / By N. Spinckes.
Spinckes, Nathaniel, 1654-1727.Date: 1712
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Prayers for the use of all persons who come to the baths of Bath for cure / By Thomas Ken. With a brief life of the author, by J. H. Markland.
Ken, Thomas, 1637-1711.Date: 1849
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Devotions upon emergent occasions / John Donne ; edited, with commentary, by Anthony Raspa.
Donne, John, 1572-1631.Date: 1975
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Orders thought meet by His Maiestie, and his Privy Councell to bee executed throughout the counties of this realm, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may bee heerafter, infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same. Also, an advice set downe by the best learned in Physick within this realme, containing sundry good rules and easie medicines.
England and Wales. Privy Council.Date: 1625

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Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.

Golden Temple, Amritsar. Coloured transfer lithograph.

[Consolations for the soule of man].

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: activities of pilgrims. Pencil drawing by R. Cleaver.

An apothecary praying for a host of illnesses to descend on his customers so that he can make more money. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G.M. Woodward.

Crimean War: cityscape view of hospital and cemetary at Scutari. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker after W. Simpson.

Crimean War, Scutari: hospital and cemetery. Coloured lithograph by J. Needham, 1856, after W. Simpson.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: immersion ceremony at the Holy Well. Wood engraving by H. Lanos.

A forme of common prayer: to be used upon the 17th of November, and the 8th of December: on which dayes a fast is appointed by His Majesties proclamation, for the removing of the plague, and other judgements of God, from this kingdom / Set forth by authority.

An AIDS-infected man praying to God for strength to care for himself and others like him; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the NACO in collaboration with WHO. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: pilgrims praying and confessing by the roadside. Wood engraving.

Anglo-Saxon remedies, charms, and prayers from British Library Ms Harley 585 : the Lacnunga / edited and translated with introduction, appendices, commentary, and glossaries by Edward Pettit.

The crums of comfort with godly prayers.

A Nevve boke conteyninge an exortacio[n] to the sicke, the sycke mans prayer, a prayer with thankes at ye purificatio[n] of wome[n], a consolatio[n] at buriall.

Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk: private prayers. Etching by B. Winkles, 1837, after H.K. Browne.

Phylactères ou préservatifs contre les maladies, les maléfices et les enchantements : exorcismes ou conjurations, ensemble les pratiques et croyances populaires les plus répandues ouvrage rempli de renseignements curieux / publié par Albano [pseud.].

A woollen shroud, or, Learn to dye : to be given at burials / by C.B.A. Æ. LXX. & XXIII.

The sick man visited and furnished with instructions, meditations, and prayers suitable to his condition ... / By N. Spinckes.

Prayers for the use of all persons who come to the baths of Bath for cure / By Thomas Ken. With a brief life of the author, by J. H. Markland.

Devotions upon emergent occasions / John Donne ; edited, with commentary, by Anthony Raspa.