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Meteorologia philosophico

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Meteorologia philosophico

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Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Tantum ergo - Public domain American music sheet

Ars memorandi per figuras Evangelistarum.

Block book. Printed in brown ink on one side of leaves only, on versos and rectos alternately, so that pairs of printed and blank pages alternately face each other. Of each printed pair, one is text, the other ... More

Jesu dei vivi - Public domain American sheet music, 1880

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam deuastatarum verissim...

Latin translation from the French ed. of 1579, which was a translation of the Spanish title: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. Title within ornamental border; Iodocus a Winghe designed the ... More

Systema mundi Tychonicum : secundum celeberrimorum astronomorum Tychon...

Appears in his Grosser Atlas uber die gantze Welt. Nurnberg, 1716. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Discoloration along fold line. Bottom edge and ce... More

Paolo Forlani - [Geografia tavole moderne di geografia].

Relief shown pictorially. Some maps entirely in Italian, some maps entirely in Latin. Title derived by cataloger from title page of bound Lafréry atlas. Seventeen loose sheets that appear in atlases sold by Ant... More

Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Ve...

Relief shown pictorially. First document known to name America. Red ink grid on 2 sheets. Text applied over blank areas on 2 sheets. Manuscript annotations in the margin of 1 sheet. All sheets bear a watermark ... More

Philalethes., 15th century - Public domain document scan of drawing

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Philalethes., 15th century - Public domain document scan of drawing

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D. Benjamin Franklin, et vita inter Americanos acta, et magnis electri...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing fur cap and spectacles, medallion on pedestal. After portrait by Cochin. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and p... More

[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hierony...

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination (col. diagrs., col. maps) 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of... More

[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hierony...

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination (col. diagrs., col. maps) 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of... More

Three Ave Marias, op. 1 - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Gvinea propia, nec non Nigritiæ vel Terræ Nigrorvm maxima pars : geogr...

Covers West Africa from Gabon in the south to Niger, Mali, and Mauritania in the north. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image... More

Epistola Christofori Colom [Letters of Christopher Columbus]

Without foliation, signatures or catchwords. E.D. Church calls this Plannck's second or corrected edition. BM 15th cent., IV, p. 97 (IA.18551) Church, E.D. Discovery, 5 Copinger 1691 Goff C-758 GW 7177 Hain-Co... More

Americae pars sexta, sive, Historiae ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono Mediolane[...

The t.p., with a new engr. title on a slip mounted over the original text, is repeated preceding the plates. First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 158. Novae Novi Orbis historiae, liber 3... More

Tabvlae Rudolphinae, quibus astronomicae scientiae ...

"Tabvlae Rudolphinae" (Rudolphine Tables) is a set of astronomical tables that were published in the 17th century. The tables were commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II and were compiled by the Germ... More

Sidereus nuncius - Public domain book scan / engraving

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Signatures: A-C⁴ D⁶ E-G⁴. Contains both woodcut and engraved illustrations; moon illustrations from Galileo's own drawings. Vendor: Jonathan A. Hill.

Esopo con la uita sua historiale [e] uulgare

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Esopo con la uita sua historiale [e] uulgare

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Ioannis Schoneri Carolostadii Opusculum astrologicum

Signatures: A-O⁴ (last leaf blank). LC copy has 2 leaves of ms. notes, laid in; 1 bifolium bound in between gatherings N and O, with ms. annotations. LC copy has the bookplate of Doctoris Tinel, Rotomagensis. F... More

Ioannis Schoneri Carolostadii Opusculum astrologicum

Signatures: A-O⁴ (last leaf blank). LC copy has 2 leaves of ms. notes, laid in; 1 bifolium bound in between gatherings N and O, with ms. annotations. LC copy has the bookplate of Doctoris Tinel, Rotomagensis. F... More

De claris mulieribus. Latin incunabula biography book

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Americae pars VII. Verissima et ivcvndissima descriptio praecipvarvm q...

Translation of Ulrich Schmidel's Warhafftige und liebliche Beschreibung. The 3 numb. plates intended to illustrate this pt. were published with pt. 8, 1st ed., 1599. First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating... More

Americae pars VII. Verissima et ivcvndissima descriptio praecipvarvm q...

Translation of Ulrich Schmidel's Warhafftige und liebliche Beschreibung. The 3 numb. plates intended to illustrate this pt. were published with pt. 8, 1st ed., 1599. First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating... More

Exposicio mistica super exod[um]. [Germany, ca. 1150]

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Vita et Aesopus moralisatus - Public domain medieval manuscript

The Book of Fables is a collection of Aesop's fables that has been compiled and transmitted through the ages in various forms. Many of Aesop's fables have become well-known and have been translated into multipl... More

Vita et Aesopus moralisatus - Public domain medieval manuscript

The Book of Fables is a collection of Aesop's fables that has been compiled and transmitted through the ages in various forms. Many of Aesop's fables have become well-known and have been translated into multipl... More

De re militari., 15th century - Rare book, public domain, Library of C...

Rosenwald 61 Goff V-106 Hain 15911 Polain 3911 Voulliéme 1201 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy rubricated throughout.

De re militari., 15th century - Rare book, public domain, Library of C...

Rosenwald 61 Goff V-106 Hain 15911 Polain 3911 Voulliéme 1201 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy rubricated throughout.

De re militari. Italy, 14th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript on paper. Signatures (with catchwords at end of each): [a-s¹⁰, t²⁺]. Humanistic script. Illuminated initials; headings in red; sepi... More

De re militari. Italy, 14th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript on paper. Signatures (with catchwords at end of each): [a-s¹⁰, t²⁺]. Humanistic script. Illuminated initials; headings in red; sepi... More

De re militari. Italy, 14th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript on paper. Signatures (with catchwords at end of each): [a-s¹⁰, t²⁺]. Humanistic script. Illuminated initials; headings in red; sepi... More

Psalmi (inc.) - Public domain music sheet scan

Cosmographia., 15th century

Incunabula are books printed in the earliest years of the printing press, from the mid-15th century to the early 16th century. The term "incunabulum" is Latin for "cradle" and refers to the fact that these work... More

Cosmographia., 15th century

Incunabula are books printed in the earliest years of the printing press, from the mid-15th century to the early 16th century. The term "incunabulum" is Latin for "cradle" and refers to the fact that these work... More

Cosmographia., 15th century

Incunabula are books printed in the earliest years of the printing press, from the mid-15th century to the early 16th century. The term "incunabulum" is Latin for "cradle" and refers to the fact that these work... More

Cosmographia., 15th century

Incunabula are books printed in the earliest years of the printing press, from the mid-15th century to the early 16th century. The term "incunabulum" is Latin for "cradle" and refers to the fact that these work... More

Quadragesimale., 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

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Quadragesimale., 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

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Quadragesimale., 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

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Quadragesimale., 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

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Quadragesimale., 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

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Quadragesimale., 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Signatures: [A]-Z⁴, (H₂ lettered G₂), Aa-Zz⁴, ***⁴, Aaa-Ooo⁴. The second and third books were apparently printed by different printers as indi... More

Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis., 15th century

Block book. Printed in brown ink on one side of leaves only. Includes illus. of the life of St. John. BM 15th cent., I, p. 3 (IB.41) Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch, IV, p. 160-216 (4th ed., 1st state) Rosenwald 23 A... More

Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis., 15th century

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Polygraphiae libri sex Ioannis Trithemij, abbatis Peapolitani quondam ...

Polygraphiae libri sex Ioannis Trithemij, abbatis Peapolitani quondam ...

Decretales Gregorii IX. Vol. 3.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed in black and red. With a commentary. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d⁶ e⁵ f-h¹⁰ i-k⁶ l-m¹⁰ n⁸ o¹¹ p-q¹⁰ r⁸ s⁷ t-x¹⁰ y⁶ z⁷ A-C¹⁰ D⁸ E⁶ F-G¹⁰ H⁹ I-K... More

Ars moriendi., 15th century - Rare book, public domain, Library of Con...

Block book. Printed in black ink on one side of leaves only, so that pairs of printed and blank pages alternately face each other. Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch (3. Aufl.), IV, p. 261, 267-312 (ed. IV A) BM 15th ce... More

Ars moriendi., 15th century - Rare book, public domain, Library of Con...

Block book. Printed in black ink on one side of leaves only, so that pairs of printed and blank pages alternately face each other. Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch (3. Aufl.), IV, p. 261, 267-312 (ed. IV A) BM 15th ce... More

Rationale divinorum officiorum, 15th century

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Rationale divinorum officiorum, 15th century

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Guilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis ...

Esopi Appologi siue Mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum addi...

Signatures: a-b⁸, c-o⁶ ⁸, p-s⁶ (last leaf blank) A-B⁸, C-D⁶, E-K⁸ ⁶, L⁴, M⁶ (last leaf blank). In 2 pts.; the first includes Aesop's life tr. by Rinuccio, the fables in the prose version of Romulus and the metr... More

Esopi Appologi siue Mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum addi...

Signatures: a-b⁸, c-o⁶ ⁸, p-s⁶ (last leaf blank) A-B⁸, C-D⁶, E-K⁸ ⁶, L⁴, M⁶ (last leaf blank). In 2 pts.; the first includes Aesop's life tr. by Rinuccio, the fables in the prose version of Romulus and the metr... More

Esopi Appologi siue Mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum addi...

Signatures: a-b⁸, c-o⁶ ⁸, p-s⁶ (last leaf blank) A-B⁸, C-D⁶, E-K⁸ ⁶, L⁴, M⁶ (last leaf blank). In 2 pts.; the first includes Aesop's life tr. by Rinuccio, the fables in the prose version of Romulus and the metr... More

Esopi Appologi siue Mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum addi...

Signatures: a-b⁸, c-o⁶ ⁸, p-s⁶ (last leaf blank) A-B⁸, C-D⁶, E-K⁸ ⁶, L⁴, M⁶ (last leaf blank). In 2 pts.; the first includes Aesop's life tr. by Rinuccio, the fables in the prose version of Romulus and the metr... More

[Musical treatises], Italy - Library of Congress performing arts encyc...

[compiled by Johannes Franciscus Preottonus]. (statement of responsibility) Title from: Census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. F. 47r: Venice; f. 155r: Piacenza. Black a... More

Steganographia qv‘ hvcvsqve a nemine intellecta, sed passim vt svpposi...

Page 396 incorrectly numbered 364. The Clavis specialis (p. 123-315) consists of the text of the Darmstadt edition of 1620 of the Steganographia, with Heidel's explanations added, and has (p. [124]) a reprint ... More

Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati f...

The first part, originally published in 1585, is composed of three fascicles, each with a special t. p.: Galliæ tabulę geographicæ ; Belgii Inferioris geographicæ tabulę ; Germaniae tabulę geographicæ. The ... More

Missarum cum quatuor, quinque & sex vocibus liber nonvs

Title from cantvs part. For cantus, altus, tenor, bassus, quintus and sextus. The quintus and sextus parts are printed on opposite pages in one partbook. LC copy bound in 1 v. Missa Ave Regina coelorum, a 4 -- ... More

Hymni totivs anni iuxta ritum Sanctæ Romanæ Ecclesiæ cvm qvattvor voci...

For cantus, altus, tenor, and bassus. Title from cantvs part. White mensural notation. LC copy bouond in 1 v. Latin words. (language)

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Sacra corona motetti a due, e trè voci di diuersi eccelentissimi auto...

Title from canto primo part. Parts for canto primo, canto secondo, basso, and basso continuo, bound in 1 v. Latin words. (language)

Sacra corona motetti a due, e trè voci di diuersi eccelentissimi auto...

Title from canto primo part. Parts for canto primo, canto secondo, basso, and basso continuo, bound in 1 v. Latin words. (language)

Tertia pars magni operis musici continens clarissimorum symphonistarum...

Principally motets. Parts for discantus, altus, tenor, and bassus. Each part contains an index of first lines. The bassus of the LC copy lacks signatures AA1-AA4, which have been supplied in a modern hand. With... More

Liber sextus Decretalium.Mainz, Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 17 De...

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De re militari.Verona, Boninus de Boninis, 13 Feb. 1483.[254] leaves (...

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The Virgin, Child, and a bishop / AC [monogram of Alessandro Casolani]...

Print shows Madonna and Child with bishop kneeling beside them. After Alessandro Casolani. Dedication: Al Sig. Mutis Peui Nobile senese. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photo... More

Bartolomeo Coriolano - [The Virgin and Child], Guido Reni

Print shows Mary and infant Jesus. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, p. 28. Print originally part of Pembroke albu... More

Jean Boisseau - America noviter delineata / Historic map, Library of C...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes insets of north and south polar regions. Acquisitions control no. 3-85

Nova Hispania, Nova Galicia, Gvatimala.

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Ogilby's America and Montanus' De nieuwe en onbekende weerld. 1671. Phillips, Maps of America, pp. 404 and 405. Ogilby, John, America, pp. 238-239. Available also through th... More

Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula - Public domain map

Relief shown pictorially. Includes two ancillary polar hemispheres and illustrations. LC copy foldlined, with three pin holes in lower margin. Hand coloring to delineate continental boundaries only. Shirley, Ro... More

Typus generalis Ukrainæ : sive Palatinatuum Podoliæ, Kioviensis et Bra...

Covers palatinates that are now part of central and southern Ukraine (at the time a part of the Russian Empire previously acquired by military conquest from the Ottoman Empire). Relief shown pictorially. In Lat... More

Mappa totius mundi : adornata juxta observationes dnn. academiae regal...

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Tobias Conrad Lotter's Atlas géographique de cent et huit cartes générales et spéciales. Augsburg, 1778. Includes note, ill., and ancillary maps of the northern hemisphere a... More

Veluti in speculum. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows seven British officers admiring themselves in a mirror held up for them by a devil. The officers are, from right to left, Amherst, Murray, Burgoyne, and possibly Tarleton, Cornwallis, Clinton, and S... More

[How the Natives collect gold in the streams]

Native men using hollow rods which they drive into the sandy bottom of streams to collect gold and other metals. Illus. in: Brevis narratio eorvm qvæ in Florida Americæ provi̇cia Gallis acciderunt, : secunda in... More

St. Salvador tower (Latin convent) [Jerusalem]

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Canadian named official of Dallas exposition. Washington, D.C., May 5....

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Secrecy surrounds meeting of Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Washi...

Two men standing next to each other in front of a door. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Calendar of religious ceremonies in Jer. [i.e., Jerusalem] Easter peri...

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Calendar of religious ceremonies in Jer. [i.e., Jerusalem] Easter peri...

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Pensylvania Nova Jersey et Nova York cum regionibus ad fluvium Delawar...

Print shows cartouche and ornament in upper left corner of map; Natives bring fish and furs to a man in European dress. Illus. in: Atlas géographique de cent et huit cartes générales et spéciales, ... / Tobias... More

America septentrionalis. - Public domain map

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Quartum mirabile mundi mausoleum idest magnum mausoli sepulchrum

Print shows people admiring the Mausolus mausoleum. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

Expeditio Francisci Draki eqvitis Angli in Indias Occidentales a. M.D....

Translation of A summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage. "First Latin edition ... The text is somewhat abridged from the original English version, which was published ... in the fo... More

De arte praedicandi - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

Book 4 of the author's De doctrina Christiana. Goff A-1226 Hain 1956 BM 15th cent., I, p. 52 (IB.510) GW 2871 Rosenwald 35 LC copy: gilt brown morocco by Rivière. Provenance: Huth Collection (bookplate). Gift ... More

Prospectiua communis d. Iohannis archiepiscopi Cantuariensis fratris o...

Title from opening words, leaf a2. Edited by Facius Cardanus. Ampersand in leaf a1 verson caption represents a Tironian sign. Printer from colophon (in verse: "... Faustis Corneni clauditur auspitijs. ..."); pl... More

Responsoria Hebdomadæ Sanctæ qvatvor vocibvs concinenda vna cum organo...

Bonifiacii Gratiani in ecclesia Domus Professæ, e in Seminario Romano musices praefecti. (statement of responsibility) Title vignette; ornamental borders; intials. Title from cantvs. Parts for cantus, altus, te... More

Novvm et insigne opvs mvsicvm sex, qvinqve et qvatvor vocum, cvivs in ...

Principally motets. Title from supplied t.p. of tenor part. Parts for discantus, altus, tenor, bassus, vagans, and sexta vox. Each part contains an index of first lines. In the LC tenor part the title, the dedi... More

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Rosenwald 237 Goff H-58 Hain 1322 Copinger 532 (variant) BM 15th cent., IV, p. 131 (IA.19267) (variation) GW 2300 LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Provenance: F.W.T. Hunger, Amsterdam (bookplate).

Novvm et insigne opvs mvsicvm sex, qvinqve et qvatvor vocum, cvivs in ...

Principally motets. Title from supplied t.p. of tenor part. Parts for discantus, altus, tenor, bassus, vagans, and sexta vox. Each part contains an index of first lines. In the LC tenor part the title, the dedi... More