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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialPforzheimer collection of Bruce Rogers materials, 1200-1957 Bruce Rogers was one of the foremost typographers and book designers of his time. His papers include correspondence, book preparatory materials, printing samples, artwork, writings and speeches, and other items that document his professional and personal life. Carl Pforzheimer was a book collector, as well as an associate of Rogers. Included here are Rogers related materials collected by Pforzheimer.
- Contributor: Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard)
- Date: 1508
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHans Peter Kraus Collection: Royal cedula to Antonio de Mendoza, Viceroy of New Spain
- Date: 1540-06-10
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHans Peter Kraus Collection: Domingue de Gourgue
- Contributor: Robert De Barnac and Arnaud Gerburi
- Date: 1567-07-25
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialWilliam Dudley Foulke papers, circa 1470-1952 Lawyer, public official, and author from Indiana. Correspondence, diaries, journals, copybook, speeches, writings, notes, legal papers, clippings, printed material, and other papers, including a late fifteenth century fragment of the Tristram Saga obtained by Arthur Middleton Reeves on a trip to Iceland. The bulk of the collection consists of Foulke's correspondence reflecting his literary career and public service, including letters from Theodore Roosevelt discussing...
- Contributor: Foulke, William Dudley
- Date: 1470
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHans Peter Kraus Collection: Copy of a royal cedula to the audiencia of La Plata de los Charcas, Upper Peru
- Contributor: The King [Philip II of Spain]
- Date: 1580-09-23
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Incomplete manuscript of the Ottoman Turkish translation of ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt of Qazwīnī] Manuscript. Turkish Arabic script. Ms. lacks t.p. and an undetermined number of pages at the beginning. Scribe not identified. Written in Turkey. Paper; polished, light cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; text enclosed in ruled borer of one thin black and one thick gold line; black ink with rurication; catchwords. Naskh; 17 lines in written area 18 x 9.5...
- Contributor: Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad
- Date: 1553-01-01
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHans Peter Kraus Collection: Notarized copy of a cedula to the governors of Guatemala, Higueras, and Honduras and other justices in the Spanish Indies
- Date: 1541-01-11
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Book of hours] Ms. Written and decorated in central France in the 1st half of the 16th cent. In Latin. 16th-cent. additions in French (leaves 173-181). For detailed description see Medieval and renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, by Svato Schutzner. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 15 Schutzner, S. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, 54 Also available in...
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Catholic Church
- Date: 1500
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialPeter Force papers and collection, 1492-1977 Antiquarian, historian, and mayor of Washington, D.C. Chiefly Force's personal papers and papers he collected for his nine-volume American Archives. Force's personal papers document his career as a Washington printer, newspaper editor, compiler, and collector. The collection records political, military, scientific, and social aspects of eighteenth and nineteenth century America.
- Contributor: Force, Peter
- Date: 1492
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMakhzan al-asrār ; Khulāṣat al-khamsah
مخزن الاسرار ؛ خلاصة الخمسة Manuscript. Persian. Each work has separate title ; title of first work fol. 1b; title for second work, fol. 82a. Each section has different date: Makhzan al-asrār dated 28 Rajab 954 [9 September 1547]; second section dated 4 Shaʻbān 954 [19 September 1547]. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in Iran or India. Paper: thick, cream color Oriental paper; text in columns in...- Contributor: Persian Manuscript Collection (Library of Congress) - Niẓāmī Ganjavī
- Date: 1547
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHans Peter Kraus Collection: Royal cedula to [Luis de Velasco], Viceroy of New Spain
- Contributor: The King [Philip II of Spain]
- Date: 1559-10-21
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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 MaterialGreek Manuscripts 1721. Plays.
- Contributor: Sophocles
- Date: 1500
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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: Walsingham, Francis - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Burghley, William Cecil
- Date: 1588-01-01
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