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Historical Archive: Albanian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Norse Inscriptions Old English (Mercian): Alfred Jewel, gold, enamel, and rock crystal, late 9th c., Ashmolean Alfred Jewel, gold, enamel, and rock crystal, late 9th c., Ashmolean grave stone of Dietrich with Old High German inscription, c.1000, Bingen, LMM S3089 grave stone of Dietrich with Old High German inscription, c.1000, Bingen, LMM S3089 grave stone of Dietrich with Old High German inscription, c.1000, Bingen, LMM S3089 grave stone of Dietrich with Old High German inscription, c.1000, Bingen, LMM S3089 French: signet ring "of Louis IX", sapphire/gold/enamel, 14th c., Louvre OA MR 92, which has its own page French enameled gold 14th-c. mount reworked 1793, with c.25-50 CE sardonyx cameo of Jupiter with eagle (Camée de Chartres), CdM Chab. 4 Middle Low German in Gothic majuscule: Tristan embroidery, wool on linen, c.1300-25, WIEN Ha 1, WienMus, which has its own page Old Norse: Nedstryn altar frontal, painted pine 1300-25, Bergen MA 1, which has its own page with many inscriptions Italian: Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Good and Bad Government 1338-40, Siena, which has its own page Italian: Ambrogio Lorenzetti 1343, Annunciation , SPN inv. 88, which has its own page French: Thomas, Earl of Lancaster panel with capture, trial, journey, and execution; above: Coronation of the Virgin; mid/late 14th c., lead alloy partly gilt, from River Thames bank, MoL Italian: Cappella Strozzi di Mantova, Florence, Nardo di Cione 1354-57, which has its own page French: signet ring, 15th c. gold w. prob. 18th c. sapphire, Louvre OA MRR 229, which has its own page Italian: children discovered by hunters, copper/enamel, Italy 15th c., Cluny Cl. 13069 Hallmarks plaque, copper, Rouen 1408, Cluny Cl.3451. This work has its own page. comb, boxwood, France c.1475-1525, French inscription "per voz servir", PMA 1930-64-75 Memento Mori bead with French inscription "helas morir novs favlt", ivory, c.1500 France or Flanders, PMA 2007-133-1. This object has its own page. French: Lady and the Unicorn, wool/silk tapestry, c.1500, Cluny. For more panels and details see Cluny. German? Adam and Eve plate, cast brass, Germany c.1500-50, Belgrade MAA 6216. For oblique view see Belgrade MAA. English: memorial brass of Jane Agmondeshan 1519, Ewell, Bourne Hall Museum French inscription: Death, alabaster c.1530, from the Cemetery of the Innocents, Paris; Louvre R.F. 2625. This work has its own page. French: grave marker of Nicolas de Bonont and his wife and 15 children with Crucifixion, 1547, St. Séverin, Paris, which has its own page. German: partial grave stone c.1550-1600, Kloster Wienhausen/parish church, which has its own page French: Hunting horn assoc. Henry IV of Navarre/France, ivory, France late 16th-early 17th c., Belgrade MAA 541. For other views see Belgrade MAA. mixed Low and High German: cell of Engel Wennes, painted 1593, Kloster Wienhausen, which has its own pages with several views German: grave stone of Frau von Meltzing d. Sept. 14, 1599, Kloster Wienhausen/parish church, which has its own page with full work dog collar, velvet and gilt brass, 17th c. Saxony, German IHZS for Johann Herzog zu Sachsen, PMA 1977-167-1053 Pelican in her Piety, dish with initials of William III of England, lead-glazed earthenware, Staffordshire Potteries 1690-1710, AIC 1959.55. For other views see AIC. Engraved musket powder horn, cow, ox, or buffalo horn, 18th c. US, UMMA 2007/1.101. This work has its own page. Mantel clock with priestess and Cupid sacrificing to Venus, Joseph Buzot c.1780, gilded bronze, ebony, porcelain, and glass, UMMA 2001/2.82. This work has its own page. Anti-slavery medallion, William Hackwood (Wedgwood) 1787 England: stoneware, steel, ivory. AIC 1912.326 19th-c. Kidde gravestone with Danish inscription, at Jelling, which has its own page with reverse Resurrection of Christ with Dutch inscription, tin-glazed earthenware, Utrecht or Rotterdam 1800-50, PMA 1992-6-2a--l Resurrection of Christ, tin-glazed earthenware, Utrecht or Rotterdam 1800-50, PMA 1992-6-2a--l French: plaque with hair of Napoleon, silver/gilt/bronze, France 1840s, Hermitage UM-30876. For details see Hermitage. German: record of 1908 discovery (top), Bernward foundation stone 1010, St. Michael's, Hildesheim, which has its own pages French: memorial to Émile Mâle, 1965. For more views see Chartres. English inscription on wall: design George Pace, sculptor Frank Raper 1970-71, tomb of Bede, Galilee, Durham Cathedral, which has its own pages French 10 Franc coin honoring the Capetian millennium, nickel-bronze, design G. Baldratti, 1987, p.c. For more modern English and French see 20th c. metalwork. Bertozzi/Casoni 1997, Scegli il Paradiso, majolica, which has its own page, Imola Conrad Atkinson, NEAnderthal, mixed media 1989, UMMA 2004/2.106. Art object copyright: artist/heirs. Albanian, 2008: National Library of Kosovo, Pristina, Andrija Mutnjaković 1974-86, which has its own page St. Francis preaching to the birds (reproduction of 1260-80 fresco, San Francesco, Assisi), poster displayed in Saint-Denis 2011. For details of graffiti prayers see Saint-Denis interior. undated Italian inscription for Francisco de Bello, Milanese merchant, reverse of seasons sarcophagus with menorah, marble, c.250-350, Rome MNR 67611, which has its own page