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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 has been associated with the ruins of the Monastery of Arates (Aratesivank) of Siwnik. Verin Noravank was in close contact with the better-known Noravank of Amaghu, with which it has often been…- Contributor: Grigor
- Date: 1487
- Resource: PDF - 534
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Book/Printed MaterialMeknutʻiwn Aghōtʻitsʻ ew Nerboghinatsʻ Srboyn Grigori Narekatsʻwoy hreshtakakan vardapeti Saint Gregory of Narek (also called Grigor Narekatsi) was born in the city of Narek (in present-day Turkey) in 951. He became a priest at the age of 25 and lived almost all of his life in the monastery of Narek where he taught at the monastic school. His writings include a Commentary on the Song of Songs (also known as the Song of…- Contributor: Hakōb
- Date: 1745
- Resource: PDF - 1187
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Book/Printed MaterialKẏrīakodromīonʺ, sirechʺ, Nedi︠e︡lnikʺ : pouchenīe : na vsi︠e︡khʺ nedi︠e︡le̜khʺ vʺ Pravoslavnikhʺ T︠s︡erkvakhʺ prochitaemae̜ Evangelīe̜khʺ vʺ vsego Li︠e︡ta sʺ tolkuvanīemʺ i sʺ nravouchenīe, i na Velikikhʺ Gospodskikhʺ prazdnit︠s︡i︠e︡khʺ, i na sve̜tykhʺ prazdnuemykhʺ skazanīe …
Кѵріакодроміонъ, сиречъ, Недѣлникъ : поученіе : на всѣхъ недѣлѧхъ въ Православнихъ Церквахъ прочитаемаѧ Евангеліѧхъ въ всего Лѣта съ толкуваніемъ и съ нравоученіе, и на Великихъ Господскихъ праздницѣхъ, и на свѧтыхъ празднуемыхъ сказаніе душеполезнаѧ / | Kiriakodromion sirech Nedelnik : | Kẏrīakodromīon | Nedi︠e︡lnikʺ | / The Sunday Book is the first book published in modern Bulgarian. It was written by Bishop Sofronii, an associate of Paisii Hilandarski, the founder of the Bulgarian Renaissance movement. It consists of 96 sermons, and was intended to serve as a religious guide at a time when the Bible had not yet been translated from Old Bulgarian. World Digital Library.- Contributor: Sofroni - Early Bulgarian Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Popovich, Dīmitrīĭ Mīkhailō
- Date: 1806
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Book/Printed MaterialResearches and missionary labours among the Jews, Mohammedans, and other sects LAC ecr 2019-01-11 review LAC tnb 2019-01-10 update (1 card)- Contributor: Wolff, Joseph
- Date: 1837-01-01
- Resource: PDF, Text - 336
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Book/Printed MaterialOlney hymns : in three books Olney Hymns was compiled by John Newton, the author of "Amazing Grace" and rector of a parish in Olney, England, and William Cowper, a poet and close friend of Newton. The book contained the first printing of "Amazing Grace," which is numbered "Hymn 41" and begins at the bottom of page 53. The profits from the hymnal went to the benefit of Olney's poor.…- Contributor: Newton, John - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Cowper, William
- Date: 1779
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHmayil (Armenian prayer scroll) number 2.
Armenian prayer scroll number 2 Hmayils (phylacteries, or prayer scrolls) in the form of highly decorated and illuminated scrolls came into use in Armenia in the 17th century. These manuscripts contained sermons, magical formulas, and prayers to avoid all kinds of dangers--especially to ward off dews (demons). Printed editions, such as this example, were devoted to prayers, Gospel readings, and sermons. Designed for domestic use and for travel, the…- Contributor: Ateshian, Aram
- Date: 18??
- Resource: PDF - 18
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Book/Printed MaterialSharaknotsʻ erazhshtakan ergetsʻmunkʻ hogeworakankʻ : A[stua]tsaynotsʻ ew erjankatsʻ srbotsʻ vardapetatsʻ, Hayotsʻ Tʻargmanchʻatsʻ ; Zkargaworutʻi[wn]s ekeghetsʻwoy vayelchʻatsʻutsʻanoghatsʻ This Sharaknots' (hymnal) published in 1712 reproduces engravings from an earlier Sharaknots' that was produced by the bishop and printer Oskan Erevants'i (Oskan of Yerevan, 1614-74) at his shop in Amsterdam. Khaz (musical notations) are shown. One new engraving, of Saint Hripsime (died 304), is included in this edition and can be seen on page 405 of the book (page 413 of this presentation).…- Contributor: Armenian Church
- Date: 1712
- Resource: PDF - 745
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Book/Printed MaterialNachatki khristĭanskago uchenīi︠a︡. Romanized.- Contributor: Net︠s︡vi︠e︡tov, I︠a︡kov - Filaret
- Date: 1840-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 212
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, July 4, 1776, a declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled
Also known as: Dunlap Declaration of Independence This document is the first printed version of the American Declaration of Independence. On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution urging Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, to declare independence from Great Britain. Four days later, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston were appointed as a committee to draft a declaration of independence. The committee's…- Contributor: United States - Dunlap, John - Force, Peter - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Ridgely, David
- Date: 1776
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb al-jadwal fī al-ḥisāb al-sinīn al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Rūmīyah
كتاب الجدول في الحساب السنين العربية و الرومية / The correct reckoning of time has been the object of study by many Arabic scientists. Its importance in Islam has to do with the proper calculation of the length of days, months, and years necessary for the performance of the five daily prayers and for the celebration of festivals at the correct hours, days, and months of the lunar year. This 19th-century copy of…- Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Watarī, Muḥammad ʻalī Ibn Ẓāhir - Thābitī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻabd Al-Laṭīf
- Date: 18??
- Resource: PDF - 33
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Book/Printed MaterialGenealogische Tabellen der arabischen Stämme und Familien. In zwei Abtheilungken. Mit historischen und geographischen Bemerkungen in einem alphabetischen Register. Aus den Quellen zusammengestellt von Dr. Ferdinand Wüstenfeld. Heinrich Ferdinand Wüstenfeld (1808-99) was a German Orientalist who specialized in Arab history and literature. He studied at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin, and he taught at Göttingen from 1842 until 1890. Genealogische Tabellen der arabischen Stämme und Familien (Genealogical tables of Arab tribes and families) consists of genealogical tables showing the two divisions of the Arabs, namely the Yemeni tribes (Tables 1-22),…- Contributor: Wüstenfeld, Ferdinand
- Date: 1852-01-01
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMu shi zong pu
木氏宗譜 / | Mu shi huan pu Joseph Rock invited painters who were Mu family relatives to reproduce Mu family ancestors' portraits in accordance with style of the original illustrations; included are portraits of chiefs of the Mu tribe in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, from the first to the thirty-third generation. This work is a faithful copy, by a painter of the Mu clan commissioned by Joseph Rock, to reproduce ancestral portraits…- Contributor: Rock, Joseph F. (Joseph Francis) - Cao, Yongxian - Yang, Shen - Chen, Zhaotang
- Date: 1931
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Book/Printed MaterialFergana, po "zapiskam" sultana Babura Romanized.- Contributor: Pantusov, N. N. (Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich)
- Date: 1884-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 62
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Book/Printed MaterialA philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies is a six-volume translation, published in London in 1798, of the ten-volume Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes by Guillaume-Thomas-François (1713-96), also known as Abbé Raynal. Educated by the Jesuits and ordained as a priest, Raynal…- Contributor: Justamond, J. O. (John Obadiah) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Raynal, (Guillaume-Thomas-François)
- Date: 1798
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Book/Printed MaterialEuropean coalitions, alliances, and ententes since 1792, In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. European Coalitions, Alliances, and Ententes Since 1792 is Number 152 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of…- Contributor: Hearnshaw, F. J. C. (Fossey John Cobb) - Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: PDF, Text - 58
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Book/Printed MaterialHistory of the Eastern question In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. History of the Eastern Question is Number 15 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920
- Resource: PDF, Text - 176
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Book/Printed MaterialThe congress of Berlin, 1878. In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. The Congress of Berlin, 1878 is Number 154 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were…- Contributor: Woodward, E. L. (Ernest Llewellyn)
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: PDF, Text - 72
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Book/Printed MaterialOur scientific frontier The "scientific frontier" is a term used by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield) of Great Britain in 1878 to denote a border between British India (in present-day Pakistan) and Afghanistan, which could be occupied and defended according to the requirements of the science of military strategy, as opposed to the existing frontier, which had been formed by a haphazard pattern of British expansion…- Contributor: Andrew, W. P. (William Patrick)
- Date: 1880
- Resource: PDF, Text - 192
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Afghan question from 1841 to 1878, The Afghan Question from 1841 to 1878 consists of five chapters extracted and reprinted from a larger work, The Eastern Question, also published in 1879. The author, George Douglas Campbell, eighth duke of Argyll (1823-1900), was secretary of state for India in the first government of Liberal Prime Minister William Gladstone (1868-74). Argyll believed that the security of India did not require territorial expansion…- Contributor: Argyll, George Douglas Campbell
- Date: 1879
- Resource: PDF, Text - 306
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Book/Printed MaterialAfghanistan: The Afghan Committee of the British Parliament was comprised of members of Parliament from all parties who were critical of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80) and the policies that had led to it. The committee issued documents and reports intended to help the public to understand the war and to counter the secrecy with which, in the committee's view, the British government had conducted…- Contributor: Afghan Committee - Afghan Committee (Great Britain) - Arthur, William
- Date: 1879-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialCentral Asian questions; Demetrius Charles Boulger (1853-1928) was a British orientalist who wrote prolifically on topics mainly related to the British Empire. With Sir Lepel Henry Griffin (1840-1908), a British administrator in India, he co-founded the Asiatic Quarterly Review, which he edited for a time. An unapologetic imperialist with strongly anti-Russian views, Boulger criticized the British government for its lack of assertiveness, as he saw it, in…- Contributor: Boulger, Demetrius Charles
- Date: 1885
- Resource: PDF, Text - 481
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Book/Printed MaterialOught we to hold Candahar? Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-7-16- Contributor: Boulger, Demetrius Charles
- Date: 1879-01-01
- Resource: PDF, Text - 32
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Book/Printed MaterialL'Afghanistan L'Afghanistan: les Russes aux portes de l'Inde (Afghanistan: The Russians at the gates of India) is a comprehensive analysis of Anglo-Russian rivalry in Central Asia in the 19th century. The book is intended to help explain this rivalry to a French audience. The author is Charles Simond, an alias for Paul Adolphe van Cleemputte (1837-1916), a French-Belgian publicist, journalist, and novelist. The book was…- Contributor: Simond, Charles
- Date: 1885
- Resource: Image - 349
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Book/Printed MaterialRussia in Central Asia in 1889, and the Anglo-Russian question. George Nathaniel Curzon (1859-1925) was a British politician, traveler, and writer who served as viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and foreign secretary from 1919 to 1924. As a young man he traveled extensively and wrote several travel books, or books that drew extensively on his travels. Presented here is his Russia in Central Asia in 1889, and the Anglo-Russian Question. Published in…- Contributor: Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel Curzon
- Date: 1889
- Resource: PDF, Text - 544