World Treasures: Beginnings
Exhibition Items
- Koran. Hand-copied in Arabic by Kohazadeh
Ahmad Rashid Safi. Decorated by Adham Gharbaldeh al-Balawi. Probably
Persian, nineteenth century.
African and Middle Eastern
Division, Library of Congress (1)
- Bsod-nams-rgya-mtsho. "Three-Deity Mandala
of the Auspicious Beginning" in Chibetto "mandara" shusei (Tibetan Mandalas: The Ngor Collection). Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983.
Reproduction. Japanese Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (2)
- Zhao Boju. Ba Xian (The
Eight Immortals), ca.1150. Scroll painting. Chinese Rare Book Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (2.1)
- The English Bible, Containing the
Old Testament and the New. London: The Doves Press 1903-05.
Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (3)
I. Creating
- Hamishah Humshei Torah (The Five Books of the Torah). Berlin: Soncino Gesellschaft, 1933. Hebraic Section,
African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (4)
- In the Beginning God. . . ., Flemington, New Jersey: St. Teresa's Press, Carmelite Monastery,
1969.
Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (7)
- Carybé (pseudonym of Hector Julio Paride Bernabé). Iconografia dos deuses africanos no Candomblé da Bahia.
São Paulo, Brazil: Raízes, 1980.
General Collections (10)
- James Weldon Johnson. "The Creation," from God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse.
New York: Viking Press, 1927. Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
(11)
- Ovid. Les Metamorphoses (The
Metamorphoses). Paris: Panckoucke, 1767-1771. Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
(12)
- Publius Ovidius Naso. Les
metamorphose d'ovide figure. Lyon: I. De Tovrnes, 1557.
Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (12.1)
- Publius Ovidius Naso. Le metamorphosi,
cioe, tramutationi, di Ovidio. Venicei Bidi Bindoni, 1538.
Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (12.2)
- Tominobu Hosoda. Kamiyo no masagoto
tokiwagusa (Mythological Story of the Creation of Japan).
Kyoto: 1827. Japanese Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (13)
- Carlos Merida. Estampas del Popol-vuh; 10 litografías
a color (Prints of Popol-vuh: 10 Color Lithographs). Mexico City: Graphic Art Publications, 1943.
Prints & Photographs
Division, Library of Congress (14a,b)
- Ida Bagoes Madé Togog of Batoean. "Pall
design: traditional for Brahman or Satrya body." Ink on paper.
Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (15)
- Molefi Kete Asante and Abu S. Abarry, eds. African
Intellectual Heritage. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 1996.
African and Middle Eastern
Division, Library of Congress (16.1)
- Atha Naradiyamahapuranam.
(Narada's Great Ancient Tale). Mumbayyam: Sri Venkatesvara Stim-Yantragare,
1923. Southern Asian Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (17)
- Dialogus Creaturarum (Dialogues of Creation).
Gouda: Gerard Leeu, 1480.
Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (17.1)
- Hartmann Schedel. Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles). Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493. Rosenwald
Collection,
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (18)
- Qauqaua: A San Folk Story from Botswana Told by Coex'ae Qgam. Johannesburg: Artists' Press, 1996.
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
(19)
- Franz Josef Haydn. Die Schoepfung (The Creation). Vienna, 1800. Music Division, Library of Congress (20.1)
- William Blake. "Urizen as the Creator
of the Material World" from Europe, A Prophecy.
Lambeth: Printed by W. Blake, 1794. Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (21)
- Elias Lönnrot. Kalevala; Kàlevala: poema finnico. Igino Cocchi, translator.
Città di Castello: Società tipografica editrice cooperativa,
1909. Russian Imperial Collection,
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (21.1)
- William Blake. The Song of
Los. Lambeth: Printed by W. Blake, 1794.Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (21.2)
- Santal creation account. Scroll,
ink, and watercolors on paper. Bengal, India: mid-twentieth century.
Southern Asia Section, Asian
Division, Library of Congress (21.4)
- Kalevala, liitteenä kaksikymmentäneliä
kuuva Akseli Gallen-Kallelan maalauksista. Helsinki: Otava,
1965.
General Collections (22)
- Rig-Veda-sanhita, the Sacred Hymns
of the Brahmans. Friedrich
Max Müller, ed. London: 1974. Southern Asian Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (24)
- Albrecht Dürer. The Fall of
Man (Adam and Eve). Engraving, 1504. Gardiner Greene
Hubbard Collection,
Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress (27)
- Lucas Cranach, the Elder. Adam
and Eve in Paradise, 1509.
Woodcut.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
(27.1)
- Albrecht Dürer. The Expulsion
from Paradise. Nuremberg?: 1510. Woodcut. Prints
and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (27.2)
- Edward Burne-Jones. "Eve Created from
the Rib of Adam." In the Dawn of the World. "Eve
Created from the Rib of Adam." Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1903.
Frederic Goudy Collection,
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
(28)
- Speculum humane savationis.
Utrecht: Printer of the Speculum, ca. 1470.
Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (28.1)
- Speculum Humanae Salvationis.
(Mirror of human salvation). Augsburg: Peter Berger, 1489. Rosenwald
Collection. Rare Book
and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (28.2)
- Heures a l'usaige de Rome (Book of Hours). Paris: Philippe Pigouchet, 1498. Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
(29)
- Hmayil (prayer scroll),
Istanbul (?): 1725. Near East Section, Asian
Division, Library of Congress (29.2)
- Ludolph of Saxony (ca.1295-1377). Vita
Domini nostri Jesu Christi ex quatuor Evangeliis. Delft: 1488. Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (30)
- Ludolph of Saxony (ca. 1295-1377). Vita Christi. Holland: Pieter Van Os Zwolle, 1499.
Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (30.2)
- Aakel of Siwnik. Adamagirk (Book of Adam). Manuscript, copied 1653. Near East Section,
African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (31)
- Hans Holbein the Younger. The Images of the Old Testament.
. . . - Image 2 Lyon: I. Frellon, 1549
Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (31.1)
- Plato. Lysis, or, Friendship.
The Symposium. Phaedrus. 1968 Translated by Benjamin
Jowett. Illustrated by Eugene Karlin. Mount Vernon, New York: Limited
Editions Club, 1968.
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (32)
- "Promethee qui forme l'homme
avec Minerve, qui lui donne l'ame . . ." (Prometheus who
creates man with Minerva, who gives him a soul . . .) Plate 24 in
Bernard de Montfaucon. L'Antiquitée et représentée
en figures (Antiquity Explained and Represented in Figures.) Vol.
1. Paris: F. Delaulne, 1719. Rare
Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (32.1)
- Niels Christian Ursin Brøgger. Nordens
demring: nordiske myter og sagn. Oslo: E. G. Mortensen,
1949. European Division, Library of Congress, Library of Congress (33)
- Nüwo, the Goddess of Creation.
Stone rubbing with color, ca. 900.
From Dunhuang pi hua xuan. (A Collection of Dunhuang Wall Paintings).
Beijing: 1952.
Chinese Rare Book Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (33.3)
- Tian-gong Yuan. "Pangu Kaitian Pidi"
(Pangu Creating the World) from Tui Bei Quan Tu, 1820
copied by Wu-Yi Chao Xie, circa 1900. Manuscript. Chinese Rare Book
Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (33.1)
- Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1992. Facsimile.
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
(35)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Du Contrat
Social: ou Principes du Droit Politique (The Social Contract).
Amsterdam: ca. 1762.
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (36)
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan.
London: Andrew Crooke, 1651. Holmes Collection,
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (37)
- John Locke. Two Treatises of Government.
. . London: A. Churchill, 1690.
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
(38.1)
- Sigmund Freud. "Totem and Taboo."
Holograph manuscript, 1912-1913. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Library of Congress (39)
- Mikayel Chamcheants. Patmutiwn
Hayots (History of Armenia). Venice, 1784. Near East
Section,
African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (40)
- Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli. Kitab
Dala'il al-Khayrat wa Shawariq al-Anwar fi Dhikr al-Salah 'ala al-Nabi
al-Mukhtar (The Guide Book of Blessings and Enlightenment
[that comes from] Invoking the Chosen Prophet in Prayer). Copy of
original fifteenth century manuscript, circa 1720. Near East Section,
African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (40.1)
- Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli. Kitab
Dalail al-Khayrat wa Shawariq al-Anwar fi Dhikr al-Salat ala al-Nabi
al-Mukhtar (The Guide Book of Blessings and Enlightenment
[that comes from] Invoking the Chosen Prophet in Prayer). Copy of
original fifteenth century manuscript, Istanbul, 1780. Near East
Section, Asian Division, Library of Congress
(40.2A)
- Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli. Kitab
Dala´il al-khayrat wa Shawariq al-Anwar fi Dhikr al-Salat ´ala al-Nabi
al-Mukhtar (The Guide Book of Blessings and Enlightenment
[that comes from] Invoking the Chosen Prophet in Prayer). Copy of
original fifteenth century manuscript, circa 1718. Near East Section,
African and Middle Eastern
Division, Library of Congress (40.2)
- Nairi Zaryan. Sasna Davit' (David of Sasun).
Erevan, Armenia:, 1966.
Near East Section,
African and Middle Eastern
Division, Library of Congress (40.3)
- John Henderson Soga. The South-Eastern
Bantu (Abe-Nguni, Aba-Mbo, Ama-Lala). Johannesburg: Witswatersrand
University Press, 1930.
General Collections (41)
- Author unknown. Landnámabók.
Sagan Landnama vm fyrstu bygging Islands af nordmønnum (Book of Settlements: Land-taking Saga of the First Colonization
of Iceland by the Northmen). Skalhollte: H. Kruse, 1688.
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
(42)
- Jónsbók (John's Book),
ca. 1637. Manuscript. Rare Book Collection of the Law Library, Library of Congress (42.1)
- Babad Tanah Jawi,1862.
Manuscript. Southern Asian Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (43)
- Ja'nos Thuro'czy. Chronicaie Hungariae. (Chronicles of Hungary). Brunn: Conrad Stahel and Matthias Prenlein,
1488. Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (45)
- Janos Thuroczy. Der Hungern
Chronica. (Chronicles
of Hungary). Vienna: 1534. Rosenwald Collection, Rare
Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (45.2)
- Bernard de Montfaucon. Les monumens de la monarchie francoise,
qui comprennent l'histoire de France. . . . (The Monuments
of the French Monarchy). Paris: J.-M. Gandouin P.F. Goffart, 1729-1733.
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
(46)
- Kristijonas Donelaitis. Metai (The Seasons). Kaunas: svietimo Ministerijos Knyg Leidimo Komisija,
1940.
General Collections (47)
- Idulgentiae Ecclesiarum Urbis
Romae (Indulgences of the Churches of Rome). Nuremberg:
1475. Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
(49.1)
- Frances F. Berdan and Patricia Rieff Anawalt, ed. Facsimile
of the Codex Mendoza.
Berkeley, California: University of California Press,1992.
General Collections (50)
- Mioria (Little Lamb). Edited by Radu Cârneci,
illustrated by Drago Morrescu. Bucharest: Orion, 1997.
General Collections (51)
- "Holy Cities" wall plaque. Jerusalem (?), ca. 1870. Watercolor
on paper. Hebraic Section,
African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (51.1)
- Nicolaes Visscher I (1618-1697). "De
Gelegentheyt van ´t Paradys ende ´t landt Canaan, mitsgaders de
eerst bewoonde landen der Patriarchen," in Korte Beschryvinge
van de Landschappen des Werelts. [Amsterdam: 166-?]. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (51.2)
- Abraham Ortelius. "Abrahami Patriarchae
Peregrinatio, et Vita," in The Theatre of the Whole World.
London: John Norton, 1606. Geography
and Map Division, Library of Congress (51.3)
- Miguel Covarrubias. "The Island of Bali." Typescript, ca. 1936-37. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (52)
- Gadla Takla Hymnot (The Life and Miracles of Takla Hymnot). Ethiopia: n.d. Asian
Division, Library of Congress (52.1)
- Sunjata: Three Mandinka Versions. Edited by Gordon
Innes. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University
of London, 1974.
African and Middle Eastern
Division, Library of Congress (53)
- Firdawsi. Shah Namah (Book of Kings). Illuminated manuscript leaf, ca. sixteenth century.
Near East Section,
African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (54.1)
- Kebra Negast (Glory of
the Kings). Gojam, Ethiopia: 1965. Fabric.
African and Middle Eastern
Division, Library of Congress (55)
- Burhan al-Din bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim Al-Halabi. Multaka
Al Abhur (The Confluence of the Currents). Manuscript,
1517. Law Library, Library of Congress (64)
- Coustumes de Normandie. (Customary Laws of Normandy). Manuscript, circa. 1450-1470. Law Library, Library of Congress (65)
- Huejotzingo Codex, 1531. Amatl paper. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (67)
- Magna charta cum statutis angliae, (Great Charter with English Statutes). Manuscript, fourteenth century.
Rare Book Collection, Law Library, Library of Congress (68)
- Zhalovannaia Gramota Dvorianstvu (Carta Granted to the Nobility). 1785. Rare Book Collection, Law Library, Library of Congress (70)
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- Francoise. La Plus Vielle Histoire Du Monde (The Oldest
Story of the World). Paris: Jardin des Modes, 1931. Children's Literature
Center (25)
- Christopher Saxton. An Atlas of
England and Wales. London:
1579.
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
(56.1)
- Pieter van den Keere. La Germanie inférievre (The Low Countries). Amsterdam, 1622. Hand-colored engraving. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (58)
- Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612). Leo
Belgicus de Noort. Amsterdam: 1611. Engraved map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (58.1)
- Foldout map of Mexico City in Praeclara Ferdinadi Cortesii de Noua maris Oceani Hyspania narratio...Carolo
Romanor u imperatori. . . . (The Second Letter Sent to His Sacred Majesty the Emperor, Our Sovereign,
by Don Fernando [Hernán] Cortés, Captain General of
New Spain.)
Nuremburg: F. Peypus, 1524.
Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (59)
- Huang He Wan Li Tu (Pictorial Map
of Yellow River). China, facsimile of 1368-1378 original. Chinese
Rare Book Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (60)
- Edo yori Nagasaki made yadotsuke,
funamichi meisho kyseki (Edo to Nagasaki, Inns and Historic
Sites), ca. 1660-1736. Watercolor. Geography
and Map Division, Library of Congress (61)
- Gosudaria Imperatora Aleksandra
II Vysochaishie manifest i ukayzy 19. Fevralia 1861, 1. Ianvaria 1864, 20. Noiabria 1864. S. Petersburg, 1869. (Imperial Manifest and Decrees of Emperor Alexander II of February
19, 1861; January 1, 1864; and November 20, 1864. St Petersburg,
1869).
St. Petersburg: Imperial Court Printer, 1869. Law Library Rare Book Collection, Library of Congress (65.1a,b)
- Eike of Repgow. Der Sachsenspiegel (Mirror
of the Saxons).
Germany, ca. 1500. Manuscript.
Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (66)
- The Constitution of India. Calligraphy by Prem Behari Narain Raizda, illuminated by Nand Lal
Bose.
Dehra Dun, India: Survey of India Offices, 1955.
Rare Book Collection, Law Library, Library of Congress (70.1)
- Levi ben Gershom. Milhamot Ha-Shem (The Wars of the Lord). Riva di Trento: Ya'akov Markri'ah, 1560.
Hebraic Section,
African and Middle Eastern
Division, Library of Congress (71)
- William Cuningham.
"Coelifer Atlas" from The
Cosmographical Glasse. . . . London: John Day, 1559.
Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (71.1)
- Bartholomaeus Anglicus. Le Proprietaire
des Choses (The Properties of Things). Lyons: Johannes
Siber, 1486. Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (72)
- René Descartes. Principia
philosophiae. Amsterdam: Apud L. Elzevirium, 1644.
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (73)
- Konrad von Megenberg, Buch der Natur (Book of Nature). Augsberg: Johannes Bämler, 1481. Rosenwald
Collection,
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (74)
- Bartholomaeus Anglicus. Le proprietaire en francoys. (The Properties in French).
Lyon: Mathieu Husz, l491.
Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (74.1)
- Galileo Galilei. Syderevs nuncius.
In Opere di Galileo Galilei. . . (Works of Galileo
Galilei), Vol. 2. Bologna: 1655.
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (75)
- Johannes Hevelius. Selenographia sive lunae descriptio,
atque accurata tum macularum eius, quam motuum diversorum. . . . Danzig: Hunefeldianis, 1647.
Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (75.1)
- Petrus Apianus. Astronomicum Caesareum. (The Emperor's Astronomy). Ingolstadt, Germany: 1540. Rosenwald
Collection,
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (76)
- Petrus Apianus and Gemma Frisius. Cosmographia,
Petri Apiani . . . additis euisdem argumenti libellis ipsius Gemmaa
Frisii. . . . (Cosmographia of Petrus Apianus, . . . carefully corrected
and with all errors set to right by Gemma Frisius. . . .). Antwerp:
Arnoldi Birckmanni, 1564. Rare
Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (76.2)
- Zont (d. 1842). Sekai dais no zu (Buddhist Cosmological Map). Japan: 1830. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (77)
- Chonhado (World
Map) from Chonha Chido (Map of the World). Hand-copied
manuscript map. Korea: mid-eighteenth century. Geography
and Map Division, Library of Congress (77.2a)
- Choson Kukto (Map
of China) from Chonha Chido (Map of the World). Hand-copied
manuscript map. Korea: mid-eighteenth century. Geography
and Map Division, Library of Congress (77.2b)
- Chunggukto (Map
of Part of Korea) from Chonha Chido (Map of the World). Hand-copied
manuscript map. Korea: mid-eighteenth century. Geography
and Map Division, Library of Congress (77.2c)
- Cholla-do (Map of
Cholla Province) from Chonha Chido (Map of the World).
Hand-copied manuscript map. Korea: mid-eighteenth century. Geography
and Map Division, Library of Congress (77.2d)
- Nicolaus Copernicus. De Revolutionibus
Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI. Nuremberg: Ioh. Petreius, 1543.
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
(78)
- Yu Tu Bei Kao Quan Shu. (Complete Illustrated Book of Celestial Phenomena). Tianyuan Fawai.
1633. Chinese Rare Book Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (79)
- The Astronomical Phenomena.
(Tien Yuan Fa Wei). Compiled by Bao Yunlong in the 13th century.
Ming Dynasty edition, 1457-1463. Chinese Rare Book Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (79.1)
- Rockwell Kent. Drifter. Wood engraving on maple, 1933.
Prints & Photographs
Division, Library of Congress (81)
- Srid pa ho (Divination
Chart). Tibet, late twentieth century. Paint on cloth. Tibetan Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (82)
- Description de l'Égypte ou,
Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été
faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée
française publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté
l'empereur Napoléon le Grand (Description of Egypt...).
A. vol. 4, plate 21. Paris: Commission des sciences et arts d'Égypte,
1809-1822. Copper-plate engraving. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (83)
- 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Umar al-Sufi (d. 986). Suwar
al-Kawakib (The Depiction of Celestial Constellations).
Copied from the original, 1730. Near Eastern Section,
African and Middle Eastern
Division, Library of Congress (84)
- Persian manuscript celestial globe,
ca. 1650. Painted wood. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (85)
- Caspar Vopell. Terrestial globe with armillary sphere.
Cologne, 1543.
Wood and metal. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (85.1)
- M. Koisumi. Genshi jujirekky zukai (Illustrated
Calendrical Observations). 1697. Japanese Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (86)
- Untitled manuscript. Nepal: ca. 1900-1925.
Accordion style paper manuscript. Southern Asian Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (87)
- Pandita Vamadhara Indrajalakala (The Art of Magic).
Meerut, India: Jwala Prakash Press, 1884.
Southern Asian Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (87.1)
- Andreas Cellarius. Harmonia macrocosmica
sev atlas universalis et novus . . . (Celestial Atlas). Amsterdam: 1708. Hand-colored engraving. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (88)
- Reiner Ottens. Atlas maior cvm generales
omnivm totius orbis regnorvm . . . Amsterdam: 1729. Hand-colored engraving. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (89)
- Jehoshaphat Aspin. A Familiar Treatise
on Astronomy. . . . London,
1825. Color plates.
Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress (90
a-h)
- Tavatimsa. Burma: ca.
eighteenth century. Accordion-style paper manuscript. Southern Asian
Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (91)
- Almanac for Hindu year 1871-1872. Rajastan, India: 1871. Fabric. Southern Asian Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (92)
- Xiyang Xinfa Lishu.
(Book of the Western Calendar). Beijing: 1644-1661. Chinese Rare
Book Collection. Asian Division, Library of Congress
(92.1)
- Mariano Fernández Echeverría y Veytia. Calendar
Wheel, no. 7 from Historia del origen de las gentes que
poblaron la América septentrional (History of the
Beginnings of the People Who Settled North America). Early nineteenth-century
facsimile manuscript. Peter Force Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (93)
- Johannes Mueller, called "Regiomontanus." Calendarium (Calendar). Nuremberg: 1474. Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (94)
- Johannes Mueller, called "Regiomontanus." Calendarium (Calendar). Illustrated by Bernhard Maler. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt
and Peter Løslein,1476. Rosenwald Collection, Rare
Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (94.2)
- Antonio de León y Gama. Descripción
histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras . . . . Mexico City: F. Zuniga y Ontiveros, 1792.
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (95)
- Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. La Piedra del Sol. Calendario Azteca (Sunstone. The Aztec Calendar).
México: 1992 (95.1)
- Burmese astronomical-astrological manuscript, mid-nineteenth century. Accordion-style paper manuscript. Southern
Asian Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (96)
- Gen'y Yoshida. Hkan hikets shusei. Tokyo: Sshid, 1882. Japanese Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (97)
- Xiang Yi Fu.
(The Study of Celestial Phenomena).
Beijing: ca. 1580.
Manuscript.
Chinese Rare Book Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (97.1)
- Eliezer ben Jacob Belin, Sefer
Ebronot (The Book of Intercalations). Offenbach: Bi-defus
Bonaventura de la Noi, 1722. Hebraic Section,
African and Middle Eastern
Division, Library of Congress (99)
- Bahera Haszab, (Comptus).
1902. Asian Division, Library of Congress (99.1)
- Phags pa bskal pa bzang po zhes
bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (Sutra of the 1,000 Buddhas
of the Auspicious Aeon). Seventeenth century. Tibetan Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (100)
- Paul Caponigro. Untitled, from the Stonehenge portfolio.
Gelatin silver print, between 1967 and 1972.
Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress (103)
- Zekeriya Kazvinî. Acaib-ül
Mahlûkat (The Wonders of Creation). Translated
into Turkish from Arabic. Istanbul: ca. 1553. Near East Section,
African and Middle Eastern
Division, Library of Congress (104)
- 'Umar bin Muzaffar Ibn al-Wardi. Kharidat
al-'Aja'ib wa Faridat al-Ghara'ib. (The Pearl of Wonders and the Uniqueness of Things Strange). Late
seventeenth century. Near East Section,
African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (104.1)
- Isidore, Bishop of Seville. Etymologiae (Etymologies). Augsburg: Guntherus Ziner, 1472. Vollbehr
Collection,
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
(105)
- Isidore, Bishop of Seville. Etymologiae (Etymologies). Venice:1483. Hain Collection, Rare
Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (105.2)
- Manusyaloka (The Human
World). Western Rajasthan: late nineteenth century. Fabric. Southern
Asian Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress. (106)
- Vidynandasvm, Director, Ngapuragorakshanasabh [Nagpur Cow Protection League]. Mumbai (Bombay). Published by Khemarja
Srkrsnd, Srvekatevara Chpakhn, Samvat Era 1947 (A.D. 1890). Southern
Asian Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (106.1)
- Atha Srimadvarahamahapuranam (Varha's Great Ancient Tale). Kalyananagaryam: Laksmivenkatesvara
Mudranalaye, 1923. Southern Asian Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (107)
- Bhagavatapurana.
Ink and gouache on paper. Alwar, Rajasthan, India: eighteenth or
nineteenth century. Southern Asian Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (107.1)
- Masque Dogons (Dogon Masks). Illustrated by Marcel
Giraule. Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie, 1938.
General Collections (108)
- Srid pa'i khor lo (Wheel
of Life). Painting on cloth, twentieth century. Tibetan Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (109)
- Srid pai khor lo (Wheel of Life).
Painting on cloth, twentieth century.
Tibetan Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (109.1)
- Ester Hernandez. Mis Madres/My Mothers, 1986. Screenprint.
Prints & Photographs
Division, Library of Congress. (110)
- Wladyslaw T. Benda. The Earth with the Milky Way and
Moon. Charcoal on paper, ca. 1918.
Published in "The Future of the Earth" by Maurice Maeterlinck, Cosmopolitan, March 1918.
Cabinet of American Illustration.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
(110.1)
- Mateus Prunes. Portolan Chart of
the Mediterranean World. Majorca: 1559. Manuscript on vellum. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (112)
- [Placido Oliva. Chart of the
Mediterranean and Black Seas,with the west coast of Spain and Portugal. Messina?: sixteenth century.] Manuscript on vellum. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (112.1)
- Htan. Nansenbushã bankoku shka no zu (The World
Map of Buddhism). Kyoto: 1710. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (113)
- Claudius Ptolemy. Cosmographia. Ulm: 1482. Hand-colored woodcut print. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (116)
- Claudius Ptolemy. Cosmographia.
Stasbourg: J. Scotus, 1520. Hand-colored woodcut print. Geography
and Map Division, Library of Congress (116.2)
- Sefer Raziel (The
Book of Raziel). Grodno, Belarus: Bi-defus Stanislaus Agustus Melekh
Polin, 1793. Hebraic Section,
African and Middle Eastern
Division, Library of Congress (118)
- Lorenzo Spirito. "Wheel of Fortune with
the Zodiac Sign of the Moon" in Libro de la Ventura (Book
of Fortune). Milan: 1508. Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (119)
- Paul Pambst. Loossbuch, zu Ehren der Roemischen,
Ungerischen unnd Boehemischen Keunigin. Strasbourg: B. Beck, 1546.
Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (119.1)
- Akuaba Doll. Ghana, ca. 1970s. Wood.
African Section,
African and Middle Eastern
Division, Library of Congress (120)
- Incantation bowl from Mesopotamia,
ca. seventh century. Clay. Hebraic Section,
African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (121)
- Oracle Bones. 1766-1123 B.C. Animal
bone. Chinese Rare Book Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (122)
- Isaac Newton. Philosophiae naturalis
principia mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural
Philosophy). London, Jussu Societatis Regiae ac Typis J. Streater,
1687.
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (123)
- Isaac Newton. Philosophiae naturalis
principia mathematica (Mathematical principles of Natural
Philosophy) 3rd ed. London: Royal Society, 1726. Rare
Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (123.1)
- Robert Hooke. Micrographia.
London: John Martyn and James Allestry, 1665. Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
(124)
- Charles Robert Darwin. On the Origin
of Species by Means of Natural Selection; or, The Preservation of
Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: J. Murray,
1859.
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (125)
- Mu'aiyid al-Din al-Tughra'i. Masabih
al-Hikma wa Mafatih al-Rahma. (The Lanterns of Wisdom
and the Keys of Mercy). Seventeenth century. Near East Section,
African and Middle Eastern
Division, Library of Congress (126.1)
- Muhammad Mirza Tunakaboni. Tufat
al-momanin (Gift to the Faithful). Shiraz, Iran: mid-nineteenth
century. Asian Division, Library of Congress
(126.3)
- Andreas Vesalius. De humani corporis
fabrica librorum epitome (On the Fabric of the Human
Body). Basel: I. Oporinus, 1543. Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (127)
- Thomas Gemini. Compendiosa totius Anatomie Delineatio
. . . . - Image 2 (Compendium of all anatomy delineated. . . .)
London: John Herford, 1545.
Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (127.1)
- Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical
and medical drawings. South Germany: ca. 1410. Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (128)
- Daniel Ricco. Mechanical anatomical
plate from Ristretto anotomico. Venice, 1790.
Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (128.1)
- Ulrich Pinder. Epiphanie Medicorum.
Speculum videndi urinas hominum. Clavis aperiendi portas pulsuum.
Berillus discernendi causas & differentias febrium. Nuremberg:
1506. Rosenwald Collection. Rare
Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (128.2)
- Yizong Jinjian. (Complete Survey of Medical Knowledge). Beijing: Imperial
Edition, 1743. Chinese Rare Book Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (129)
- Tobias Cohen, Ma'aseh Tuviyyah (The Work of Tobias). Venice: s.n., 1708. Hebraic Section,
African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (130)
- Johannes de Ketham. Fasciculus
medicinae. Venice: J. and
G. de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1495. Rosenwald Collection,
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (131)
- Abu´l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani. Breuis
ac perutilis co[m]pilatio Alfragani
. . . totu[m] id continens quod ad rudimenta astronomica est opportunum.
Translated by Johannes Hispalensis. Ferrara: Andreas Belfortis,
Gallus, 1493, frontispiece.
Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (131.1)
- Abu Masher. De magnis conjunctionibus (On great conjunctions). Venice: J. Pentium de Luecho, 1515. Rare
Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (131.1a)
- Verna Aardema. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West
African Tale. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. New York:
Dial Press, 1975.
General Collections (134)
- Margaret Mayo. Reteller. When the World Was Young: Creation
and Pourquoi Tales. Illustrated by Louise Brierley. New York:
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996.
General Collections (135)
- Michael Rosen. Reteller. How Giraffe Got Such a Long Neck:
A Tale from East Africa. Illustrated by John Clementson.
New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1993.
General Collections (136)
- Yuzo Otsuka. Reteller. Suho and the White Horse: A Legend
of Mongolia. Adapted from the translation by Ann Herring.
Illustrated by Suekichi Akaba. New York: Viking Press, 1981.
General Collections (137)
- Ronald King and Roy Fisher. Anansi
Company: A Collection of Thirteen Hand-made Wire and Card Rod-puppets
Animated in Colour and Verse. London: Circle Press, 1992.
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (138)
- Gerald McDermott. Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale.
Gouache and ink. New York: The Viking Press, 1974.
General Collections (141)
- Marcia Brown. Once a Mouse ... A Fable cut in Wood.
Woodcuts. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961.
General Collections (142)
- Ruth Robbins. Baboushka and the Three Kings. Adapted
from a Russian Tale. Illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov. Berkeley,
California: Parnassus Press, 1960.
General Collections (143)
III. Recording the Past
- Cuneiform tablet. Mesopotamia,
2039 B.C. Hebraic Section,
African and Middle Eastern
Division, Library of Congress (146)
- Tibetan Musical Score, nineteenth
century. Tibetan Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (147)
- Pustakapj (Book of Worship).
Maharashtra, nineteenth or early twentieth century. Southern Asian
Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (148)
- Bhagavatapurana.
Illustrated manuscript. Inscribed palm leaves with wooden covers.
Orissa, India: Eighteenth centruy. Southern Asian Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (148.1)
- Lei-feng Ta Fu Jing. (Thunder Peak Pagoda scroll). Zhejiang Province,
China, 975. Chinese Rare Book Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (149)
- Type specimens. Korea, ca. thirteenth
century. Brass, iron, copper, and wood.
Asian Division, Library of Congress (152)
- Doctrina breve muy provechosa de
las cosas que portenecen a la fe Catholica y a nuestra cristiandad
en estilo llano para común inteligecia (A brief
and very valuable compendium of the facts that pertain to the Catholic
faith and our Christianity, in simple style, for the average intelligence).
Mexico City: John Cronberger, 1543. Spanish-American Imprint Collection,
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (153)
- Calligraphy page from Dirvan-i Jami (Collected
Poetry of Jami).
Isfahan, Iran, early 1700s.
African and Middle Eastern
Division, Library of Congress (153.1)
- Hyakumanto dharani (One Million Pagoda Charms). Woodblock printed sutras and wooden
pagoda, ca. 764. Japanese Section,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (154a,
b)
- "P'alman taejanggyong" (Tripitaka
Koreana). Korea, 1231.
Asian Division, Library of Congress (155)
- Yi Kyu-bo. Yi Munsun Chip (The
Collected Works of Yi Munsun). Korea, 1241. Korean Collection,
Asian Division, Library of Congress (156)
- Robert Fludd. Urtriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et
minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia, in duo volumnia
secundum cosmi differntiam diuisa. Vol. 1
Frankfurt: J. T. Bry, 1624
Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress (157)
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