Transcript:Birmingham Archaeological Society. Transactions, excursions, and reports/1887

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Transactions, Excursions, and Reports.
For the Year 1887.

Birmingham and Midland Institute. Archæological Section.

[Volume XIV.] (1889)

Contents.

List of Illustrations
On Some Memorials of Old Birmingham. By R. W. Gillespie [page 1]
An Old Birmingham Lecturer : The Rev. Thomas Hall, B.D., 1610–1665. By W. Salt Brassington [page 10]
St. Peter's Church, Bickenhill. By J. A. Cossins [page 26]
The Excursions, 1887 [page 38]
Report and Accounts, 1887 [page 44]

List of Illustrations.

Bickenhill Church, View from S.E. :—
This View, copied from a Drawing forming part of the Aylesford Collection in the Birmingham Reference Library, shews the interesting features on the South side, since destroyed, and the half-timbered House to the West of the Church, long since pulled down — (facing Page 26) Plate 1
Ground Plan, and Transverse and Longitudinal Sections — (facing Page 28) Plate 2
Sketches of details made before the restoration of the Church. The lancet and low-side window and the chimney were then destroyed — (facing Page 30) Plate 3
Plan and Sections of Vestry, and Elevation, Section and Plan of Reredos — (facing Page 32) Plate 4
Church Chest, and Fragment of Stained Glass, preserved in the chest — (facing Page 33) Plate 5
Fac-simile of Wood Engraving, “ Rhetoric,” from “ Margarita Philosophica,” in King's Norton Library. Edition Fribourg, 1503 — (facing Page 23) Plate 6
Fac-simile of Wood Engraving, “ Typus Arithmetice ” (Sic), from “ Margarita Philosophica,” in King's Norton Library. Edition Fribourg, 1503 — (facing Page 24) Plate 7
Fac-simile Border, originally designed by Hans Holbein for the Ηιναξ or “ Tabula ” of Cebes, forming the ornament of the first page of the Commentaries of Erasmus. Edition Froben Basil, 1527. King's Norton Library — (facing Page 25) Plate 8
Fac-simile of Stamped Leather Book-Binding, by John Rignes, early 16th century — (facing Page 16) Plate 9