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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHans Peter Kraus Collection: Royal letter to the bishops of Mexico, Guatemala, and Antequera [Oaxaca]- Contributor: The King [Charles I of Spain]
- Date: 1538-08-23
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialSermons of Isaac Joshua b. Immanuel de Lattes Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [דרשות ר' יצחק די לטיש] Sermons of Isaac Joshua b. Immanuel de Lattes. The beginning of the first sermon is missing as in the end from the middle of pericope Va-Yakhel. This incomplete collection of the sermons of Isaac Lattes is considerably shorter than the complete collection copied by the author's son-in-law Abraham b. Meshullam Sant'Angelo…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialGhazals of Amir Khusraw Dihlavi Ghazals by Indian Persian poet, Amir Khusraw Dihlavi (d. 725/1325) written in black nasta'liq script by the calligrapher Sultan 'Ali Mashhadi, active in the Timurid court of Sultan Husayn Bayqara (r. 1470-1506) in Herat. Dimensions of Written Surface: 10.5 (w) x 18.6 (h) cm In the bottom left corner of the rightmost column appears the artist's signature, which reads: mashaqahu al-'abd (written by the…- Contributor: Sultan 'Ali Mashhadi
- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHans Peter Kraus Collection: Royal cedula to [Alonso de Montúfar], archbishop of Mexico- Contributor: The King [Philip II of Spain]
- Date: 1561-08-26
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHans Peter Kraus Collection: Royal cedula to the audiencia of New Spain- Contributor: The Princess [Juana, Princess of Spain and Portugal]
- Date: 1558-05-07
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQuatrain for a king Quatrain for a king written in black Nasta'liq script by the calligrapher Mir 'Ali Heravi (d. 951/1544-5) during the Shaybanid period. Dimensions of Written Surface: 9.5 (w) x 17.6 (h) cm In the lower left corner, the calligrapher, 'Ali, states that he wrote the work (katabahu). 'Ali may be identified as Mir 'Ali Heravi (d. 951/1544-5), a calligrapher active in the city of Herat…- Contributor: Mir 'Ali Heravi (Attr.)
- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialGreek Manuscripts 1143. Maximus Margunius against the Latins.- Contributor: Maximus Margunius
- Date: 1583
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialGreek Manuscripts 1793. Menaion (Oct).- Date: 1500
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialColophon of "Makhzan al-Asrar"; title page of "Khusraw va Shirin" Colophon of "Makhzan al-Asrar"; title page of "Khusraw va Shirin" from the Nizami's Khamsah, Shirazi style Safavid Persian illuminated manuscript in Nasta'liq script. Dimensions of Written Surface: Recto:12.1 (w) x 14.9 (h) cm. Dimensions of Written Surface: Verso: 12 9 (w) x 21 (h) cm Nine other folios from the same manuscript --mostly initial and terminal folios of the various books (kitab) from the…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDong Zhongfeng xian sheng wen xuan : shi er juan
董中峰先生文選 : 十二卷 This work is a collection of writings by Dong Qi (1483-1546), selected by Dong's follower, Tang Shunzhi (1527-60), who was a Confucian scholar, a member of the Hanlin Academy, and a man with military knowledge. Dong Qi, a native of Guiji, Zhejiang Province, achieved his jin shi (doctoral degree) and a second degree at the highest imperial examination, and entered the Hanlin Academy. As…- Contributor: Wang, Guozhen - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Dong, Ji - Tang, Shunzhi
- Date: 1561
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialOtto H.F. Vollbehr collection of printers' and publishers' marks The Otto H. F. Vollbehr Collection of Printers' and Publishers' includes samples of such in nearly all of the major European countries. They chronicle the early example of printing through the seventeenth century.- Contributor: Völcker, Georg - Vollbehr, Otto H. F. (Otto Heinrich Friederich)
- Date: 1490
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHans Peter Kraus Collection: Royal letter to [Pedro Moya de Contreras], archbishop of Mexico- Contributor: The King [Philip II of Spain]
- Date: 1578-07-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDocument signed (contemporary copy) A source for the history of the Drake-Norris expedition against Spain and Portugal, which was planned and organized immediately after the defeat of the Invincible Armada, and which was carried out in the following year, 1589. In this document, Sir Henry Billingsley (d. 1606), then an Alderman of London, and a wealthy merchant; Peter Osborne (1521-1592), a "remembrancer to the Lord Treasurer in the…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Walsingham, Francis - Burghley, William Cecil
- Date: 1588
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHans Peter Kraus Collection: Royal cedula to Alonso de Montáfar, archbishop of Mexico- Contributor: The Prince [Later Philip II of Spain]
- Date: 1554-05-10
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHans Peter Kraus Collection: Letter[a] de Americo. Vespucci. pro viagio a chalicut. [Copy of letter to Piero Soderini, Gonfaloniere of the Republic of Florence.]- Contributor: Amerigo Vespucci
- Date: 1504-09-10
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