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Some of the plates are particularly badly damaged and will require conservation. Originally held in a box marked 'Knowles Wooden box plates 28.'

The corner of one plate has broken off and is missing. Originally held in a box marked 'Knowles Wooden box plates 28.'

Emblems and evangelists and Cawood Reredos.

Mrs Hodgkinson.

Reverend Trundle.

For Reverend Horne. Cost £483.

Reverend Deane, Harswell.

For John Ferguson Esquire, Ripon.

Mrs William. 100 letters.

Folio 484. 139 letters.

Illustrations, magazines and newspaper cutting regarding stained glass.

Newspaper clippings and notes about glass painting and stained glass.

Newspaper cuttings about glass making and painting.

Bundle of loose handwritten notes and newspaper cuttings relating to the history of Stonegate.

Includes twelve prints from woodcut drawings mounted onto card. The prints depict various scenes, including harvest time, wine making, bread making etc and show the figures in medieval dress.

Containing a York Arts Guild catalogue of the First Annual Exhibition of members works, and a pamphlet about York Life School study sessions.

Volumes of handwritten notes regarding the stained glass windows in York Minster. The first volume is prefaced by the following: 'The following notes formed the first draft for a work on the Stained Glass of the Minster by the late J W Knowles. They were collected, arranged and presented to the Library by his Executors. An amended copy including all his original sketches and drawings for illustration is in the Victoria & Albert Museum Library.

Information regarding services and recitals as well as copies of illuminated texts and newspaper cuttings. Also includes a bundle of letters.

Includes two sketchbooks containing pencil drawings of J W Knowles, apparently as family holidays, as well as one volume of coloured and pencil sketches for window commissions.

Includes:
Handwritten notes regarding York Hospitals, two famous York mariners, local illustrations of English history, notes on miracle plays and York Railway station, c.1950;
Volume relating to the Mount Girls School, 1858
Business cards for Cave and Sons, engravers, and John Beckett, pharmacist;
Declaration, rules and regulations of the St James's Westminster Loyal Volunteers, 1803;
Handwritten note regarding John Dechett, coach driver, 19th century;
Two unidentified document seals, 19th century.
These items were found packaged with the remaining items in the Knowles archive, however their exact provenance cannot be ascertained.

The bundle comprises colour artwork for stained glass windows, war memorials and church fittings carried out by J W Knowles & Sons. Most of the images are mounted onto card.

Includes an image of an ornate chair; two images of the same boss; stone font; and stained glass window with standing male figure.

Two different images showing crowned female heads, of very similar design. Medieval.

Two plates show the same photo of one light of a stained glass window, with the third showing two lights from the next section along.

The first negative shows fragments of glass with two knights on; whilst the second shows a fragment of glass with coat of arms.

Each plate depicts different bishops holding swords and shields. From facsimilies of the J Arundel example. In the Grosvenor Thomas collection.

Reproductions from p 97 and 148 of a Latin book, with text and line drawings of medieval ships.

Four glass plate negatives, labelled 1) Lamport Church 2) Victoria & Albert Museum 3) Chesterfield Parish Church 4) In posession of JJ Hardshaw Esq. Birmingham.

Two glass plate negatives with same image of the donor panel from the West Window at St Martin's Coney Street, depicting Reverend Robert Semer.

Four plates. First is of a window depicting man and woman kissing. Second is of a window depicting marriage. Third is of a window depicting baptism(?) of a woman. Fourth is of a window depicting three male figures.

2 plates. Glass plate negatives of upper and lower parts of a stained glass window, depicting a crowned female saint with book and palm(?). Medieval.

Cartoons used twice (with slight differences) in the same window: woman with drowned child at tomb, and woman with leprosy at tomb.

Catalogue of sale of a collection of old glass, with prices.

2 copies of frontispiece (nos 1-2), 2 copies of plate III (nos.3-4), 2 copies of plate IV (nos.5-6)

Includes 'The Sun of York: fragments with suns, J.W. Knowles Collection' (no.4); details from 14th century York windows (no.10); representations of the Holy Trinity in York glass (no.12); German influence in Oxford work (no.15)

St Margaret's, Westminster interior (HP.3) and detail of stained glass window (P.2).

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]

Originally held in a box marked 'Knowles Wooden box plates 28.'

Some of the plates are particularly badly damaged and will require conservation. Originally held in a box marked 'Knowles Wooden box plates 28.'

One of the images is in very poor condition.

The lectern is in the Byzantine style.

Cost £472.

The glass negative was used as an illustration in J W Knowles' 'A manual of glass painting.'

The book was published in 1801. Three slides show images from the book, the other two show text.

One image depicts Science and Literature in the Middle Ages and is taken from Lacroix, whilst the other is of a window with roundels from the same publication.

The images were taken from the Clerestory, Cologne.

The images were used as illustrations in 'The Universal Magazine' and 'Glass Blowing magazine.'

The images are labelled 'not intended to be worshipped, from Dr Fowler's mural paintings in All Saints Wakefield.'

Example of repair piece: two different views of 15th century(?) female head; four different subjects got from two Cartoons - St William Window, York Minster: Panel 48. cures by holy oil exuding from shrine; Panel 62. blind and crippled coming to shrine.

Reproductions entitled 'The following comprise the whole of the items to be found in the Fabric Rolls which relate to Glass Painting as distinct from Glazing'; Accounts relating to Glass painting at York Minster 1371-1639 extracted from the Fabric Rolls [

Medieval windows, showing various figures, one with halo?. One panel signed 'Ieffery Linton 1746'. 2 images.

Windows: 1) 17th century(?) male figure; figures with spears on horseback outside a city. 2) One male figure poised to stab another with an angel in the sky above them (Abraham and Isaac?) Dated 1544. 2 images.

Two plates of same image (just framed slightly differently.): reproduction of St Margaret's window, handwritten caption 'St Margaret's. Westminster. East Window. Reproduced from the composite photograph in the Victoria & Albert Museum by kind permission'

Three plates: Marwood crest and arms. (mis-spelling of motto on coat of arms, VIRTUTE NON ARMIO FIDO corrected to VIRTUTI NON ARMIS FIDO with incorrect letters scratched out and correct ones added).

Two celluloid plates, showing upper part of the Parker window with medieval angel(?) figure; and lower part with bishops seated.

Two celluloid plates showing negatives of stained glass windows. 1) right hand light 4th from East in Lady Chapel 2) left hand light 4th from East in Lady Chapel.

Two half-plate enlargements of each. Two glass plate negatives: photos of a garden (possibly the York Medical Society?).

Nine glass plate negatives showing various medieval stained-glass windows of Wragby Church.

Four glass plates: reproduction of memorial to Barbara & Elizabeth Davyes; photo image of stone carving, three male(?) figures, one bearded and crowned; photo image, stone carving of armoured saint(?) with halo, shield and sword, surrounded by angels; pho