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Manuscript/Mixed Materialal-Juzʼ al-thālith ʻashar min al-rubʻah al-sharīfah
الجزو الثالث عشر من الربعة الشريفة This manuscript preserves the 13th juz' (section) of the Qur'an, which starts at ayah (verse) 53 of Surat Yusuf (Joseph, chapter 12). The section also includes all of Surat al-Raʻd (The thunder,…- Date: 14??
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Verin Noravankʻ Gospels] This beautifully illuminated gospel book was copied in 1487 AD at the Monastery of Verin Noravank in Armenia. The exact location of the monastery is unknown, although, since the late 1980s, it…- Contributor: Grigor
- Date: 1487
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Book/Printed MaterialApocalypsis Sancti Johannis. This work, printed in Germany in 1470, includes part of the text of the Apocalypse of Saint John, the last book of the Christian Bible, also known as the Book of Revelation.…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1470
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Book/Printed MaterialMeditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae Hind notes that 34 oblong images that appear in this edition are printed from metal cuts which feature crisp, structured lines printed in black ink. The cuts are adapted from the woodcuts…- Contributor: Hofbibliothek (Stuttgart, Germany) - Priesterseminar Mergentheim - Neumeister, Johann - De Morstat, Marcus Bartolomei - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Torquemada, Juan De
- Date: 1479
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Book/Printed MaterialBuch der Natur. Das Buch der Natur (Book of nature) is a Medieval Latin compendium of science that was edited and translated into German in the 14th century by Konrad von Megenberg, a German scholar…- Contributor: Thomas - Konrad - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Bämler, Johann
- Date: 1481
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Book/Printed MaterialBoke of the fayt of armes and of chyualrye.
Fayt of armes and of chyualrye This book on the proper mode of conduct for a knight was written in French in around 1410 by Christine de Pisan, Europe's first prolific and respected female author. It was translated…- Contributor: Christine - Caxton, William - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Holford, George Lindsay - Bonet, Honoré
- Date: 1489
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Book/Printed MaterialEpistola Christofori Colom, cui etas nostra multu[m] debet, de Insulis Indie supra Gangem nuper inve[n]tis : … Following his first voyage across the Atlantic, Columbus wrote a brief report on the "Islands of India beyond the Ganges." His intent was to announce his recent discoveries and to garner financial…- Contributor: Columbus, Christopher - Incunabula Collection (Library of Congress) - Riviere & Son - Plannck, Stephan - Cosco, Leandro DI
- Date: 1493
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Book/Printed MaterialEpistole [et] Euangelii [et] Lectioni vulgari in lingua toschana.
Epistolae et Evangelia This devotional book in Italian ('the language of Tuscany'), published in 1495 by Piero Pacini da Pescia (active, circa 1495-1514), is considered the greatest Florentine illustrated book of the 15th century. It…- Contributor: Morgiani, Lorenzo De - Perrins, Charles William Dyson - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pacini, Piero - Petri, Johann
- Date: 1495
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Book/Printed MaterialVita et Fabulae. This is the second Augsburg edition of the Fables of Aesop, translated from Latin into German by Heinrich Steinhöwel. It is illustrated with 208 woodcuts, cut in the Augsburg style, which is…- Contributor: Aesop - Wyle, Niklas Von - Bruni, Leonardo - Sorg, Anton - Bozérian - Petrus Alfonsi - Bracciolini, Poggio - Avianus - Steinhöwel, Heinrich - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Rinuccio - Romulus
- Date: 1479
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb Ikhtiyār sharḥ al-Mukhtār
كتاب اختيار شرح المختار / | Ikhtiyār sharḥ al-Mukhtār Commentary on Mawṣiliʾs own work titled al-Mukhtār. This manuscript copy is a commentary on al-Mukhtār lil-fatwá (The chosen one in edicts), one of four authoritative works in Hanafi Islamic jurisprudence. Both the…- Contributor: Mawṣilī, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Maḥmūd
- Date: 1400
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Book/Printed MaterialIn laudem Serenissimi Ferdinandi, Hispania[rum] Regis, Bethicae & regni Granatae obsidio victoria & triu[m]phus. Et De …
De insulis in Mari Indico nuper inuentis | In laudem Ferdinandi et De insulis Mari Indico. Basiliae. 1494 | Binder's title (copy with Kislak provenance): Verardus In laudem Ferdinandi et De insulis Mari Indico. Basiliae. 1494 | Binder's title (copy with Thacher provenance): Verardi Historiam Baeticam | Spine title from case (copy with Kislak provenance): De insulis nuper inventis / Columbus. Historia Baetica / Verardus | Spine title from case (copy with Vollbehr provenance): De insulis in Mari Indico nuper inventis / Christopher Columbus. Basle 1494 This book is a compilation of two texts, both relating to events in the momentous year of 1492. The first is a drama in Latin by an Italian author, Carlo Verardi (Carolus…- Contributor: Columbus, Christopher - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Verardi, Carlo - Bergmann, Johann - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius) - Cosco, Leandro DI
- Date: 1494
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMas̲navī maʻnavī
مثنوي معنوي Masnavi-e Manawi (Spiritual rhyming couplets) is the famous poetic collection of the medieval ecstatic mystic scholar and Sufi, Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207-73), known in Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran as Mowlana…- Contributor: Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī
- Date: 1441
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Book/Printed MaterialTi yun zhi yin pian : qi juan
題韻直音篇 : 七卷 Zhang Fu (1378-1469) was best known for his work on Chinese phonology, entitled Yun xue ji cheng (Book of rhymes), a book of 43,000 characters, issued in 1460, which derived from Hongwu…- Contributor: Zhang, Fu - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1460
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialṢuwar al-kawākib
صور الكواكب | سور الكواكب Text is an excellent authority on Arabic names for the stars and constellations; includes depictions of celestial constellations. Persian note before beginning of text claims that this book written in 820 H…- Contributor: Ṣūfī, ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Ibn ʻumar
- Date: 1417
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKunnāsh al-Manṣūrī
كناش المنصوري | Binder's title: Maqālāt al-Manṣūrī Text is a well-known medical encyclopedia in 10 chapters, covering diseases of various organs and their treatment as well as a description of anatomy and physiology. This manuscript preserves one of the…- Contributor: Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad Ibn Zakarīyā
- Date: 14??
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Book/Printed MaterialKitāb al-Munqidh min al-halakah fī dafʻ maḍārr al-sumūm al-muhlikah
كتاب المنقذ من الهلكة في دفع مضار السموم المهلكة Manuscript is a medical work on poisons and their antidotes, and discusses poisons from plants, animals, and minerals. It consists of 3 essays: the first begins with a table of contexts (fol.…- Contributor: Ṣidqī, Muṣṭafá - Wasīm, ʻabbās - Ibn Al-Mubārak, Al-Ḥasan Ibn Abī Thaʻlab - Fikrī, Muḥammad
- Date: 1431
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings]. An early parent to the modern almanac, these "monthly rules" are often found in astrologically focused medical manuscripts. In the Rosenwald copy, the twelve months of the year, titled in red ink…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1410
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Book/Printed MaterialShi shi yuan liu ying hua shi ji : si juan
釋氏源流應化事蹟 : 四卷 | Shijia Rulai ying hua shi ji The vivid colors in this Chinese book are reminiscent of the pictures in medieval European manuscripts. Liu Ruoyu (Ming dynasty) records this edition in his Neiban jingshu jilue (Outline record of imperial…- Contributor: Baocheng - Wang, Bo - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1465
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Book/Printed MaterialChenghua er shi san nian hui shi lu : yi juan
成化二十三年會試錄 : 一卷 | Title on spine of case: Hui shi lu, Chenghua er shi san nian yi ce | Hui shi lu, Chenghua er shi san nian yi ce This work is a collection of civil examination records dated the 23rd year of the Chenghua reign of the Ming dynasty (1487). The civil examination system in China officially began in the…- Contributor: Wu, Kuan - Yin, Zhi - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1487
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Book/Printed MaterialTianshun qi nian hui shi lu : yi juan
天順七年會試錄 : 一卷 | Title on spine of case: Hui shi lu, Tianshun qi nian yi ce | Hui shi lu, Tianshun qi nian yi ce This work is a collection of civil examination records dated the seventh year (1463) of the Tianshun reign (1457-64). The civil examination system in China began in the first half of the…- Contributor: Qian, Fu - Peng, Shi - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1463
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Book/Printed MaterialHongzhi liu nian hui shi : er juan
弘治六年會試 : 二卷 This is a collection of civil examination records in two juan, in four volumes, dated the sixth year (1493) of the Hongzhi reign (1488-1505). The civil examination system in China began in…- Contributor: LI, Dongyang - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Lu, Jian
- Date: 1493
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Book/Printed MaterialDongli shi ji xu bian : jiu juan
東里詩集續編 : 九卷 / Presented here is Dong li shi ji xu bian (A supplementary edition of Dongli's poetry), a collection of poems by Yang Shiqi (1366-1444), whose style name was Dongli. This is one of…- Contributor: Yang, Shiqi - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1461
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Book/Printed MaterialFlowers of Abu Ma'shar.
Flores Albumasaris Ja'far ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī (787--886), known as Abū Ma'shar, lived in Baghdad in the 9th century. Originally an Islamic scholar of the Hadith (the prophetic traditions of Muhammad) and a contemporary of…- Contributor: Joannes, Hispalensis, Flourished - Abū Ma'shar, 787-886
- Date: 1488-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialCommentary of Hugo of Sienna on the First [Book] of the Canon of Avicenna Together with …
Expositio Ugonis Senensis super primo Canonis Auicenne cum questionibus eiusdem Ugo Benzi (also known as Hugo of Siena) was born in Siena about 1370. Educated in the liberal arts, he later developed an interest in medicine and undertook formal studies at the…- Contributor: Benzi, Ugo - Cittadini, Antonio, 1518 - Avicenna, 980 - Gherardo, Da Cremona,4
- Date: 1498-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialYongle da dian. juan zhi 2535, juan zhi 2536 : qi jie
永樂大典. 七皆 The Yongle Encyclopedia is a large-scale encyclopedia--the largest in pre-modern China--arranged by subject categories traditionally used in China. The entire work is comprised of 22,877 juan (sections) of text proper and a…- Contributor: Xie, Jin
- Date: 1403
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Book/Printed MaterialSŏkpo sangjŏl
釋譜詳節 | Title in Chinese reading: Shi pu xiang jie Seokbosangjeol (Life history and sermons of Buddha abstracted from Buddhist scriptures) was compiled by Prince Suyang, the son of King Sejong and Queen Soheon, in the 29th year of King Sejong's reign…- Contributor: Sejo, King of Korea
- Date: 1447
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Book/Printed MaterialTianyuan yu li xiang yi fu
天元玉曆祥異賦 The author of this calendar is unknown. Traditionally it was attributed to Liu Ji (1311--75), an early Ming military strategist and statesman. This copy was issued in the 13th year (1477) of…- Date: 1477
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Book/Printed MaterialChong xiu Zhenghe jing shi zheng lei bei yong ben cao
重修政和經史證類備用本草 The author of this work is the famous Song physician Tang Shenwei, a native of Huayang (in present-day Chengdu, Sichuan province) , who came from a family of many generations of physicians.…- Contributor: Tang, Shenwei, Active 11th Century-12th Century
- Date: 1468
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Book/Printed MaterialQuan you xin jian
全幼心鑒 Quan you xin jian (Comprehensive guide to the health of children), in four juan, was compiled in the Ming dynasty by Kou Ping, courtesy name Hengmei, a native of Songyang, a pediatrician…- Contributor: Kou, Ping
- Date: 1468
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Book/Printed MaterialTian yuan fa wei
天原發微 Tian yuan fa wei (The astronomical phenomena) was compiled by Bao Yunlong of the Song dynasty and edited by Bao Ning of the Ming dynasty. It has five juan in ten volumes,…- Contributor: Fang, Hui - Bao, Ning - Bao, Yunlong
- Date: 1461
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Book/Printed MaterialIlluminated Leaf from Avicenna's Canon of Medicine.
Canon medicinae Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn 'Abd Allāh ibn Sīnā (980--1037), commonly known as Avicenna, was born at Afshaneh, near Bukhara in Persia (present-day Uzbekistan). By the age of 10, he was well versed…- Contributor: Avicenna, 980
- Date: 1473-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialGutenberg Bible.
Biblia Johann Gutenberg was born in Mainz, Germany, around 1400, the son of an aristocratic family with ties to the local metalworking industry. He lived in Strasbourg (in present-day France) for a time,…- Contributor: Gutenberg, Johann
- Date: 1454-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Nuremberg Chronicle.
Liber chronicarum The Liber chronicarum, a universal history compiled from older and contemporary sources by the Nuremberg doctor, humanist, and bibliophile Hartmann Schedel (1440--1514), is one of the most densely illustrated and technically advanced…- Contributor: Wolgemut, Michael - Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm - Schedel, Hartmann
- Date: 1493-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Rubrics of the First Book of Lactantius Firmianus's On the Divine Institutes Against the Pagans …
Lactantii Firmiani de diuinis institutionibus aduersus gentes rubrice pmi libri incipiunt This very rare work by Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius is one of the first books printed in Italy and the first dated Italian imprint. It was produced by the German typographers Conrad…- Contributor: Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus, 240?-320
- Date: 1465-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialChapter Nine of the Book of Medicine Dedicated to Mansur, with the Commentary of Sillanus de …
Liber Nonus ad Almansorem cum Expositione Sillani de Nigris Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi (also known by Latinized versions of his name, Rhazes or Rasis, 865--925 AD) was a Persian polymath, physician, and philosopher. He was born in Rayy, south…- Contributor: Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad Ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925 - Tossignano, Pietro Da, 1401 - Nigris, Sillano, 15th Century
- Date: 1483-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialBook of Simplification Concerning Therapeutics and Diet.
Liber Teisir, sive, Rectificatio medicationis et regiminis Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik Ibn Zuhr (also known by the Latinized version of his name, Avenzoar, circa 1090--1162), was the leading medical doctor in Islamic Spain. A native of Seville, he studied…- Contributor: Surianus, Hieronymus, 1522 - Ibn Zuhr, ʻabd Al-Malik Ibn Abī Al-ʻalāʾ, 1162 - Averröes
- Date: 1497-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialWorks of Medical Science.
Opera medicinalia Opera medicinalia (Works of medical science) is a collection of pharmacological treatises by several authors. The main work, Canones (Canons), was attributed to an Arab physician in the 11th century and was…- Contributor: Cordo, Simone - Abū Al-Qāsim Khalaf Ibn ʻabbās Al-Zahrāwī, 1013 - Mondino Dei Luzzi, 1326 - Jean, De Saint-Amand, 13th/14th Century - Petrus, De Abano, Approximately 1250-Approximately 1315 - Saladino Ferro, Flourished 1448 - Ibn Gaon, Shem Tov Ben Abraham, 13th/14th Century - Nicolaus, Salernitanus, 12th Century - Francesco, DI Piedimonte, 1319 - Christophorus, De Honestis, 1392
- Date: 1495-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialComplete Book on the Judgment of the Stars.
De Judiciis Astrorum Abu al-Hassan Ali Ibn Ali Ibn Abi al-Rijal (also known as Haly or Hali, and by the Latinized versions of his name, Haly Albohazen and Haly Abenragel) was a late 10th-century--early 11th…- Contributor: Ibn Abī Al-Rijāl, ʻalī,6
- Date: 1485-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialPaupers' Bible.
Biblia pauperum This Biblia pauperum (Paupers' Bible) consists of a series of woodcuts depicting scenes from the Old and New Testaments, which are combined with short explanatory texts printed with metal type. Central scenes…- Contributor: Pfister, Albrecht, 1420 1470
- Date: 1462-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialShip of Fools.
Das Narrenschiff Das Narrenschiff (Ship of fools) by the Basel lawyer Sebastian Brant (1458--1521) was one of the first lavishly illustrated works to be printed in the German language in the 15th century and…- Contributor: Dürer, Albrecht - Brant, Sebastian
- Date: 1494-01-01
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