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Date: 1400

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Computus ecclesiasticus. [Ephemerides compendiosae ad sciendum in quo signo zodiaci planetae sint. De ortu & occasu syderum ex libris VI Fastorum P. Ovidij Nasonis. Extracta ex libro Georgicorum Virgilij Maronis. Ortus stellarum … Catalog Record Only Ms. Sources are, except for the selections from Ovid and Virgil, not stated. Information in the Ephemerides and in Ortus stellarum fixarum may be based on Joannes Stadius or on Giovanni Antonio Magini. Compiled and handwritten probably in or shortly after 1583 at Rouen, not unlikely by one of the Celestine monks named in the inscription on the t.p. of the printed calendar with…

Contributor: Virgil - Ovid
Date: 1583

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Greek Manuscripts 489. Eklogai.

Date: 1500

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Greek Manuscripts 1763. Apophthegmata.

Date: 1500

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Hagios Sabas 703. John Chrysostom on Matthew, Liturgica. 14th-18th cent. 26 f. Pa. 5 ft.

Contributor: St. John Chrysostom, [John Chrysostom Saint, -407]
Date: 1300

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Taḥrīr al-qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah fī sharḥ al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah
تحرير القواعد المنطقية في شرح الرسالة الشمسية | Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah Quṭb al-Taḥtānī's commentary on Qazwīnī's al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah.

Contributor: Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Quṭb Al-Taḥtānī, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1583
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Panagios Taphos 426. Gerasimos of Alexandria. 16th cent. 407 f. Pa. 46 ft.

Contributor: Gerasimos of Alexandria
Date: 1500

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Ḍawʼ al-lumaʻ fī al-ḥisāb
ضوء اللمع في الحساب Text is a poem on arithmetic dedicated to Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Bahwashī al-Shāfiʻī, as mentioned at the end of the manuscript. This work is a versified treatise on arithmetic ('ilam al- ḥisāb), and specifically the art of dividing inheritance (farā'iḍ), which has application in Islamic law. After a standard expression of praise for the Prophet, his companions, and later followers,…

Contributor: Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Ḥamīdī, ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Ibn Aḥmad Ibn ʻalī - Bahwāshī, Shihāb Al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn Shams Al-Dīn Muḥammad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad
Date: 1588
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Arabic Manuscripts 688. Diary and Treaties.

Date: 1574

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Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Copy of a royal letter to Pedro Moya de Contreras, archbishop of Mexico

Contributor: The King [Philip II of Spain]
Date: 1580-06-17

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Greek Manuscripts 1848. Medica.

Contributor: Galen
Date: 1500

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Ethiopic 15. Psalter. 16th/17th cent. 115 f. Pg. 14 ft.

Date: 1500

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Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Dechiarazione di molti bedetti et uocaboli sopra lopera del furioso di L[udovi]co ariosto

Contributor: Ludovico Ariosto
Date: 1500-01-01

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Slavonic 16. Kanones (Nilus). 15th/16th cent. 30 f. Pa. 5 ft.

Date: 1400

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Panagios Taphos 254. Mathematarion. 16th cent. 328 f. Pa. 28 ft.

Date: 1500

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Panagios Taphos 63. Patristica. 16th cent. 276 f. Pa. 30 ft.

Date: 1500

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Greek Manuscripts 467. Lives of Saints.

Date: 1500

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Manuscript dispatch in Spanish This endorsed "Copy of the letter the duke my lord wrote to the governors of the Indies in the year 1587" is the official "model" of a set of letters sent by the Duke at the behest of King Philip II of Spain. The attached slip is a list of the addressees: it specifies the governors of Havana ( i.e. , of Cuba), of…

Contributor: Medina Sidonia, Alonso Pérez De Guzmán - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1587

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John Davis Batchelder collection of manuscripts, 1537-1944 Educator and collector. Autographs, letters, official documents, writings, printed material, photographs, and other papers of prominent historical figures in the arts, science, and politics of the Western world collected by Batchelder.