Collection Items

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    Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Da Yuan hun yi tong zhi : Yanjing
    大元混一統志 : 燕京     Incomplete copy - only six chapters in this copy; the manuscript exhibits different writing styles. This work is based on an important book by Gu Zuyu (1631-92), a geographer from Wuxi, Jiangsu…
    • Contributor: Gu, Zuyu - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1662
  • Book/Printed Material
    Jie zi yuan hua chuan : wu juan
    芥子园画传 : 五卷     Jieziyuan hua zhuan (The Mustard Seed Garden manual of painting), also known as Jie zi yuan hua pu, was compiled in the early Qing dynasty. The work was commissioned by Shen Xinyou,…
    • Contributor: Wang, Gai, Active
    • Date: 1662
    • Resource: PDF - 65

  • Book/Printed Material
    Brief and Concise Plan Intended to be a Mutual Agreement for Some Colonists Willing to go …
    Kort en klaer ontwerp [...] om Den arbeyd [...] van Alderley-hand-wercxluyden te verlichten door Een onderlinge Compagnie ofte Volck-planting [...] aen de Zuyt-revier in Nieu--neder-land op te rechten     Pieter Cornelis Plockhoy was a Dutch Mennonite and social reformer, born in the city of Zierikzee circa 1625. He moved to Amsterdam in 1648, where he became well known in the city's…
    • Contributor: Plockhoy, Pieter Corneliszoon
    • Date: 1662-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 15

  • Book/Printed Material
    Short Story about New Netherland [...] and Special Possibilities to Populate.
    Kort verhael Van Nieuw-Nederlants gelegentheit [...] en byzondere bequaemheidt ter bevolkingh     This pamphlet, published anonymously in Amsterdam in October 1662, concerns the establishment of a settlement on the South River (as the Dutch called the Delaware River) in New Netherland by the Dutch…
    • Contributor: Enden, Franciscus Van Den
    • Date: 1662-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 93

  • Book/Printed Material
    The Princess of Montpensier.
    La Princesse de Montpensier     This first edition of La Princesse de Montpensier (The Princess of Montpensier) by Madame de La Fayette was published anonymously in 1662. Taking place during the religious wars of the previous century,…
    • Contributor: La Fayette, Madame De (Marie-Madeleine Pioche De La Vergne)
    • Date: 1662-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 161

  • Book/Printed Material
    A Collection Dealing with the Medical Profession. The manuscript presented here comprises seven different texts dealing with medicine, particularly the profession of medicine. The texts begin with an urjuzah (type of Arabic poem) by Persian polymath Abu ʻAli al-Husayn…
    • Contributor: Avicenna, 980 - Masīḥī, ʻīsá Ibn Yaḥyá, 1010011 - Usaynī, Zayn Al-Dīn Ibn Al-Sayyid Muḥammad Al-Ḥimṣī - Aṭṭār Al-Hārūnī, Dāwud Ibn Abī Naṣr Active 13th Century - Anṭākī, Dāʼūd Ibn ʻumar, 1599 - Abū Naṣr Ibn Al-Masīḥī, 1223 - Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad Ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925
    • Date: 1662-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 207

  • Book/Printed Material
    Yu zhi tian wen xiang zhan cun shi liu juan
    御制天文象占存十六卷     Shown here is Yu zhi tian wen xiang zhan: cun shi liu juan (Divinations by astrological and meteorological phenomena, issued by imperial order), by an unnamed author. The title is on the…
    • Date: 1662
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    You mei
    友梅     The plum blossom and bamboo sometimes are paired as friends in Chinese culture. Both are symbols of purity and steadfastness. This pairing is reflected in this late 17th-early 18th century painting and…
    • Contributor: He, Shikun
    • Date: 1662
    • Resource: Image