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    Kitāb al-Taysīr fī al-qiraʼāt al-saʻb
    كتاب التيسير في القرأات السعب / Catalog Record Only     Early work on the seven readings of the Qurʼān.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Dānī, ʻuthmān Ibn Saʻīd - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1579
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    [Ducale containing instructions to Giovanni Antonio Venier for administration of Istria]. Catalog Record Only Ms. In Latin through mid-leaf 95a; the rest in the Venetian dialect of Italian. Title supplied by cataloger; lost 1st leaf may have carried one. Judging from similar Venetian documents, the lost first leaf is likely to have included the name of the doge of the period as the issuing authority; in this case, Alvise Mocenigo I. In central medallion on upper cover of...
    • Contributor: Venier, Giovanni Antonio - Venice (Republic : To 1797). Doge ( : Mocenigo) - Mocenigo, Alvise I
    • Date: 1574
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    Nyōkanshi
    女官志 / | Jokanshi Catalog Record Only     Ms. (shahon), the copier and the date not known. Title from original cover. First work in 3-kan, 2nd work also in 3-kan. With no borders, text chiefly in 10 vertical lines. On double leaves, oriental style (fukurotoji). LC copy wormed, with loss of text. LC copy rebound in western style (yōsōbon) Asakawa collection (SEP 6 1907) 3807b Kokusho sōmokuroku, v. 6, p. 411 (3...
    • Contributor: Japanese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Kyōgoku Tamekane No Musume - Nijō, Yoshimoto
    • Date: 1572
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    Yangzhou Fu tu shuo.
    揚州府圖說     Following the map of Yangzhou, there are 11 more maps, including Jiangdu, Guazhou, Yizhen, Qinxing, Gaoyou, Xinghua, Baoying, Qinzhou, Rugao, Tongzhou, and Haimen. Each map has a commentary appended. Some records of the changes and migration in these counties are more detailed than those in other history books. In addition, there is a record of the 1533 Japanese invasion. The writing style of the...
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1573-01-01
    • Resource: Juan 1 - 26 pages

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    Hādhā matn al-Raḥbīyah fī ʻilm al-farāyiḍ.
    هذا متن الرحبية في علم الفرايض | Bughyat al-bāḥith Catalog Record Only     Poem on Islamic inheritance according to the Shāfiʻī school.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Al-Mutafanninah, Muḥammad Ibn ʻalī - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1575
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    Statuti nuoui d[e]lla Corte d[e]lla mercantia et universita de mercatanti d[e]lla citta di Firenza pubblicati l'Anno MDLxxvii a di primo di Maggio Gregorio xiii Pontifice Maximo : manuscript
    Statuti nuoui dlla Corte dlla mercantia et universita de mercatanti dlla citta di Firenza pubblicati l'Anno MDLxxvii a di primo di Maggio Gregorio xiii Pontifice Maximo | Statuti nuovi della Corte della mercanzia et Università de mercatanti della città di Firenza pubblicati l'Anno MDLxxvii a di primo di Maggio Gregorio xiii Pontifice Maximo Catalog Record Only     Commercial law statutes of the city of Florence, as approved on 1577 May 1. Organized in three books, proceeded by a table of contents (5 leaves) and an index (14 leaves).
    • Contributor: Tuscany (Grand Duchy) - Francesco I
    • Date: 1577
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    Philip II letter, ALS, written in Madrid, to Pedro Moya de Contreras, Archbishop of Mexico. Philip II complains to the Archbishop of Mexico City about his practice of appointing monolingual priests to Indian benefices. Philip had previously ordered the archbishop not to appoint clergy unskilled in Indian tongues. Despite the king's command, the archbishop had still allowed many monolingual priests to hold Indian benefices. At best, these...
    • Contributor: Eraso, Antonio De - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Philip II
    • Date: 1578
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    Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sailing order, In the age of piracy on the high seas, sailing instructions were top-secret documents upon which rested the security of the king's fleet and his treasure. Here, Menéndez de Avilés, governor of Florida, gives Don Cristóbal de Eraso complicated and detailed instructions for sailing to Spain on the Buenaventura with his fleet, via the islands of Flores and San Miguel. He is admonished not...
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Riviere & Son - Menéndez De Avilés, Pedro
    • Date: 1572

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    Fragments from a divination manual Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Colophon on f. 6v dated 5333=1572/3: תם ונשלם תהלה לאל עולם... שנת נצבה שגל לחמנך בכתם אופיר. Deinard, 1914. Ff. 11-13 are blank except for jottings. Work 1: Ff. 1r-6v: [ספר ידיעת המזלות] Astrological predictions based on personal horoscopes. Incomplete. Beginning and end missing. A complete copy of this work is found in MS Vatican, BAV...
    • Date: 1572

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    King Philip II certificate of nobility : Catalog Record Only Spanish Ms. Codex. Illuminated certificate of nobility, in Spanish, granted to Pedro del Guero of Arenillas. Bound in contemporary limp vellum. Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 138 Gift of Dr. Ernest C. Richardson, December 15, 1934.
    • Contributor: Philip II
    • Date: 1571
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    Alcab[ala]s de Burgos : el monesterio de San Juan de burgos xxiiv de iuro p[er]petuo : manuscript. Catalog Record Only Carta de privilegio of the perpetual annuity of 22,000 maravedis to the monastery of San Juan de Burgos, granted by Philip II on 5 August 1575. The source of this annuity is explained in the petition of Gonzalo López de Polanco, which outlines the source of Polanco's perpetual income and his wish that 22,000 maravedis from same be given to the monastery for missa...
    • Contributor: López De Polanco, Gonzalo - Spain. Sovereign ( : Philip II)
    • Date: 1575
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    Kitāb sharḥ Qawāʻid Ibn Hishām
    كتاب شرح قواعد إبن هشام / | Sharḥ Qawāʻid al-iʻrāb li-Ibn Hishām | Sharḥ al-Qawāʻid lil-Kāfiyajī | Sharḥ Qawāʻid Ibn Hishām Catalog Record Only     Commentary in Ibn Hishām's Iʻrāb ʻan qawāʻid al-iʻrāb.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Kāfiyajī, Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1573
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    Motoshige tai no sho reihō kojitsu.
    元重躰之書・禮法古實 | Motoshige karada no sho reihō kojitsu Catalog Record Only     Ms. (shahon). Title from original cover. With no borders, text chiefly in 10 vertical lines. On double leaves, oriental style (fukurotoji). LC set rebound in western style (yōsōbon) in 1 v. Asakawa collection (SEP 6 1907) Not listed in Kokusho sōmokuroku and Kotenseki sōgō mokuroku. 3809g LC set has "川内文庫" stamped. DLC With: 兵具雜記并幕星咒. [Japan, 17--?] Bound together. DLC Postscript (v. 1), "秋庭備中守元重・天文八年 [1539]...
    • Contributor: Akiba, Motoshige - Japanese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1578
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    Sadaoki hentōsho.
    貞興返答書 Catalog Record Only     Ms. (shahon). Caption title. With no borders, text in 12 vertical lines. On double leaves, oriental style (fukurotoji). LC copy rebound in western style (yōsōbon); original covers probably removed. Asakawa collection (SEP 6 1907) 3809b Binder's title: 故實雜書・九. Postscript by 伊勢三郎貞興, dated 元龜參年 [1572]. With: 兵具雜記并幕星咒. [Japan, 17--?] Bound together. DLC Kokusho sōmokuroku, v. 3, p. 701 (Sadaoki hentōsho, see 伊勢貞興返答書); v. 1, p....
    • Contributor: Japanese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Ise, Sadaoki
    • Date: 1572
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    Shiki sankon no koto.
    式三献之事 Catalog Record Only     Ms. (shahon). Title from half t.p. With no borders, text chiefly in 12 vertical lines. On double leaves, oriental style (fukurotoji). LC copy rebound in western style (yōsōbon); original covers probably removed. Asakawa collection (SEP 6 1907) Not listed in Kokusho sōmokuroku and Kotenseki sōgō mokuroku. 3809c Binder's title: 故實雜書・九. Postscript by 伊勢三郎貞興, dated 元龜參年 [1572]. With: 兵具雜記并幕星咒. [Japan, 17--?] Bound together. DLC
    • Contributor: Japanese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Ise, Sadaoki
    • Date: 1572
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    Tian hua pu shi : san juan.
    天花譜史 : 三卷     Ms. In case. Also available in digital form. 八行十六字. Eight lines, with sixteen characters per line. 原題:「雲陽邑人冷開泰玄贊甫集。」按是書不見著錄，檢四川雲陽縣志亦無開泰名，其事蹟無孜。茲記其目，以俟夫知者:卷一，原始篇，審症篇，明治篇，中氣篇，神氣篇，形色篇，標本篇，情理篇，死病篇，交會篇，歲氣篇，部位篇，生死篇，胎毒篇，陰陽篇，血氣篇，毒辨篇，氣血篇，因期施治論，辨痘貴嫌論，原痘賦，始熱賦，放苗賦，發秀賦，成實賦，結靨賦，落痂賦，金鏡賦，節制賦，指南賦。卷二，輕重生死預知章，疏密輕重損存章，氣血不分離散章，報點部位辨問章，駁八卦部份問章，辨平塌陷伏問章，辨夾症問章，三音問章，疔腫問章，臭爛問章，腫毒臭爛同異章，審內外精粗問章，補託辨難問章，辨虛實用補問章，大人小兒輕重問，婦人出痘問章，安胎問章，痘瘡入目問章，驚搐問章，辨痘歸陽明問章，痘與傷寒用藥問，不可為併惡候問。卷三，氣血毒元氣，看經辨輕重治法，表吐下，〓嘴戞牙，按餘症豐約，攻剩不容岐觀，形色相參，預驗法，治法繩墨，驗寒熱法，發泡，虛實，論眼，論藥遲早輕重決，辨食不食決生死，預決死期，看神色，痘按四季期日，驚論，狂論，嘔吐論，泄瀉論，咬牙寒戰論，痒論，癍論，喉論，喘促論.
    • Contributor: Leng, Kaitai - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1573-01-01
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    Fu xuan ye lu : er juan
    負暄野錄 : 二卷 /     Manuscript version (not woodblock print) collected in the 'Si ku quan shu'.
    • Contributor: Chen, You - Wang, Shu - Fan, Shikuan - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1573-01-01
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    Guo shi jing ji zhi : liu juan
    / | Jing ji zhi     Includes letter from author Jiao Hong to Chen Ruyuan that says the publication of this edition was accomplished because of Chen's efforts.
    • Contributor: Chen, Ruyuan - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Jiao, Hong
    • Date: 1570-01-01
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    Deed executed in the city of Antequera on February 3, 1572, whereby Garci Ponce de León claims that he is a "Hijodalgo" of the city and therefore should be exempt from payment ... Title devised, in English, by Library staff. Jurisdiction covered: Spain. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available on microfilm (Law Library Microfilm 84/10004). Document in Spanish.
    • Date: 1572-01-01

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    Rel[aci]on de la entrada q[ue] hizo por el estrecho el Navio yngles, y de lo q[ue] se previno contra el The original draft of the letter from the Viceroy of Peru to the Governor of the Río de la Plata (resident at Buenos Aires) recounting Sir Francis Drake's depredations on the Pacific coast of Spanish America during his voyage of circumnavigation and the measures taken there against him. The numerous inter-linear and marginal additions and correction throughout this version of the letter prove that...
    • Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Toledo, Francisco De
    • Date: 1579

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