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Unidentified. Includes title page of Thomas Gent's 'The most delectable, scriptural and pious history of the famous and magnificent great eastern window (according to beautiful portraitures) in St Peter's Cathedral, York' 1762 (no. 3); details of stained gas

Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)
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Unidentified. Includes title page of Thomas Gent's 'The most delectable, scriptural and pious history of the famous and magnificent great eastern window (according to beautiful portraitures) in St Peter's Cathedral, York' 1762 (no. 3); details of stained

Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)
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Unidentified. Includes title page of Thomas Gent's 'The most delectable, scriptural and pious history of the famous and magnificent great eastern window (according to beautiful portraitures) in St Peter's Cathedral, York' 1762 (no. 3); details of stained glass, south aisle, St Michael le Belfrey, York (no. 6); map showing abbeys located near York; Franconian glass panel at South Kensington (no.10)

Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)
Untitled [memorial panels]

St Catherine panel (no.1); St James OPA James and Priscilla Dagnell (no.2); St Helen OPA Walter and Helen Dalton (no.3); St Richard OPA Richard Knight d.1921 (no.4); St Thomas OPA Thomas Kavanagh, founder and PP 1894-1920 (no.5); St Priscilla OP Priscilla Gibbs d.1922 (no.6); St Louis ORP Louise Leteux d.1922 (no.7); St Catherine OPA Catherine Dolly d.1917 (no.8); St Charles OP Charles Leteux PP 1920- (no.9); St Cecilia OPA Richard Dunn d.1914 (no.10); St Martin OPA Father Martin Curran (no.11)

Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)

Includes west window, St Martin, Coney Street, York, 1437 (no.3); St George and the dragon (no.4); St William received by Dean and Chapter (panel 38); St William received by Lord Mayor (panel 37), St William lying in state (panel 44); woman undergoing ordeal by fire (panel 103) (no.5); horses: St William window (no.9); details of heads (no.11, no.18); details including horse, dog, water bucket, Lord Mayor of York's purse etc P.39 O.30, P.89 O.89 and Figure 6.1 (no.12); detail of costume etc, St William window c.1921 (no.13); examples of details of pendant and folds in drapery in Continental, Oxford and York work (no.16); title page of 'The Visional and Solemn History of the Great Window in nine partitions to No. 108: Third Book (no.17);

Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)
Glass plate negatives

?Plan of York Minster showing five western bays 1400-1420, four eastern bays 1361-1400, and the tombs of Archbishop Bowett d.1423, Wolveden Treasurer d.1432 and Prebendary Parker d.1423; Stained glass relating to martyrdoms, including the Bowett window (?York Minster), the murder of Becket in the fourth window from the east in the South Aisle of Lady Chapel (?Canterbury Cathedral), and a list of martyrdoms.

Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)
Glass plate negatives

Set of slides showing glass making techniques and examples of stained glass including: no.4 carbonate and copper burnt in; no.7 modern and 12th century; no.10 Eraclius' 13th century glass painting recipe; no.11 Eraclius' recipe for glass painting 14th century; no.36 cartoons used twice, Église de la Madeleine, Aube, Troyes; no.38 curious old inscriptions on the walls of the Haunted Gallery; no.45 glass corroded leaving enamel intact; no.47 York Minster Fabric Rolls, abstract of 1421 roll; no.49 accounts relating to glass painting at York Minster 1371-1639 extracted from the Fabric Rolls; no.50 items in the Fabric Rolls relating to glass painting at York Minster 1471, 1577; transcript of indenture between the Dean and Chapter of York and John Thornton of Coventry, glazier for the glazing of the Great Window in the east gable of the choir of York Minster 10 Dec 1405; no.55 stained glass with inscription to Von Rosenbach 1588; no.61 Steelyard Wharf, London; no.63 Venetian Chart of the English Channel 1489; no.69 diagram to show continuity of design and practice in the York school of glass painting 1399-1529; no.70 ordinances of York, glass painters 1463-64; no.72 ordinances of York, glass painters c.1370; no.75B Prudde's scale of prices for various classes of work 1445-49; no.77 prodigal son playing blackgammon in half moon from Lasteyrie; no.79 stained glass at Limoges - fox preaching to cocks and hens; no.83 statues of Virgin and Child from Petite Chapelle St Jean etc; no. 93 1526 indenture, King's College, Cambridge; no.94 patent granted by Henry VI to John Utynam for manufacture of coloured glass, 1449; no.95. unidentified portrait; no.97 St William Window, York Minster c.1421: two of the donors (the Roos family); pane representing William's enthronization feast, St William Window, York Minster c.1421; no. 116 the monkey's funeral and fox running away with the goose, nave, York Minster; no.125 portrait of Henry Gyles, glass painter of York c.1646-1709 from mezzotint by Francis Place; no.127 image of glass painter's workshop; no.129 [?Self] portrait of Henry Gyles 1680-85, British Museum (Museum no. 1852,0214.372); map of London 1560 showing steelyard and Glaizers Hall, Fye Foot Lane; no.131 16th century window from 15th century cartoons, Saint-Parres-aux-Tertres, Aube department, France; no.139 title page of Waltyer Gedde's Booke of Sundry Draughtes 1615; no.164 unidentified; no.166 map showing England, France, Italy and Belgium; no.167 [York Minster, interior]; no. 168 plan [?of York Minster] showing system 'A' where only the windows nearest the spectator can be seen and system 'B' where all windows can be seen; no.169 [York Minster, exterior]; no.170 Choir, Gloucester Cathedral; no.171 example of an indenture; no.172 St William Window, York Minster c.1421; no.173 St William in Solitude, St William Window, York Minster c.1421; no.178 unidentified stained glass window with annotations; no.179 Corpus Christi Heads at Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York and St Martin's Coney Street, York and Our Lord appearing to St Thomas at All Saints, North Street, York; no.184 East Window, Gloucester Cathedral; no.185 Fairford; no.187 York Minster - William de Auckland appears as Vitriarius in 1371 (extract from unattributed text); no.192 [?monkey funeral, nave, York Minster]

Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)
Glass plate negatives

Set of slides showing: no.2 unidentified; no.22 unidentified; no.26 unidentified; no.30 unidentified; no.31 stained glass with inscription to Jacob Sulger ?1670s; no.37 cartoons used twice, Vaudes, Aube Madeleine, Troyes; no.38 cartoon cut in two so as to miss the central figure, Vaudes Aube; no.59 window, north aisle, Nostell Church; no.71 extract from ordinances of the York glass painters 1463-64; no.81 (K) two Bishops thrown into Hell, Bourges Cathedral; no.82 (K) Monk first into Heaven, Bourges Cathedral; no.91 unidentified; no.100 St William Window, York Minster c.1421.

Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)