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Book/Printed MaterialApocalypsis Sancti Johannis. This work, printed in Germany in 1470, includes part of the text of the Apocalypse of Saint John, the last book of the Christian Bible, also known as the Book of Revelation. The book is based on letters written to church members in Asia Minor that describe Saint John's heavenly visions and revelations. It tells the story of the great heavenly warfare between good...
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1470
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Photo, Print, DrawingDie erste Figur darinnen der Scharmützel dess Bayrischen Volcks mit dem Feind beym Brückl. und der Böheimb retirata gegen ihren auffgeworffnen Schantzen zusehen
First illustration in which the skirmish of the Bavarian people with the enemy near the bridge and where the siege against the Bohemian retirata defense can be seen | Tarku ubs Tartarorum in Dagestahn ad mare Caspium | Tarki, city of the Tartars in Dagestan on the Caspian Sea 1 print : engraving ; sheet 28 x 31 cm on card mount 36 x 46 cm | Print shows birds-eye view of the skirmish between forces of the Holy Roman Empire, Bavaria and Bohemia in a valley along a small river and swamp with troops in formation on opposite sides of a bridge. Troops in formation are visible on a hillside and across...- Contributor: Sadeler, Jan - Hauslab, Franz,, Dlc - Hauslab, Franz
- Date: 1621-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingSchencken Schans
Eigentlicher vnd nicht endichter abriss der vornehmen vast vnv̈berwintlicher Vöstung Schencken Seantz wie solche von den Spanischen gelderische Soldatten ist erobert den 28. July 1635 | Actual and not final outline of the distinguished and almost unconquerable fortress of Schencken Schanz and how it was conquered by Spanish from Dutch troops on July 28, 1635 | Schenckenschanz Fortress on the Rhine, built in 1586 and captured by Spanish forces, 28 July 1635 1 print : engraving ; sheet 39 x 34 cm on card mount 61 x 51 cm | Birds-eye view print shows the fortress of Schenckenschans built at the confluence of the Waal and Rhine Rivers on the border between the Netherlands and Germany. Also visible are soldiers in boats and on land. In 1635 the fortress was captured and held by Spanish troops...- Contributor: Kilian, Wolfgang - Hauslab, Franz,, Dlc - Hauslab, Franz
- Date: 1635-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingProspectus montis gui vulgo Römer-Berg dicitur Francofurti ad Moemun Vüe du mont nomé vulgairement Römer-Berg a Francfort sur le Mein = Prospetto del m[...] nominato volgarment Römer-Berg a Francoforte al Meno = ... Print shows view of plaza in Frankfurt, Germany, with city hall and Old St Nicholas Church; the windows have been cut out and sheets of paper with watercolors are pasted behind the print to give an appearance of light.
- Contributor: Probst, Georg Balthasar
- Date: 1770-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingPassau. septen trio 1 print : etching ; plate 36.5 x 50 cm, on sheet 39.8 x 53.8 cm. | Print shows a bird's-eye view of Passau from the south with the Inn River in the foreground and the Danube River in the background; also shows a man and a woman walking at bottom center with another woman and a dog behind, and two women nearby, city...
- Contributor: Abent, Leonard, Active - Abent, Leonard
- Date: 1576-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingGustavus Adolphus, by the Grace of God, King of the Swedes, Goths, and Vandals, the Great Prince of Finland, the Duke of Estonia and Karelia, and Lord of Ingria.
Gustavus Adolphus D.G. Svecorum, Gothorum, et Vandalorum Rex, Magnus princeps Finlandiæ, DVX Ethoniæ et Careliæ, nec non Ingriæ dominus During its age of imperial greatness in the 17th and early 18th centuries, Sweden was an important European power. Sweden's rise in stature coincided largely with the 1611--32 reign of King Gustavus Adolphus. Under his leadership, Sweden increased its military capacity, seized significant territories on the continent of Europe, and championed Lutheranism at a time of great confessional strife. This copper engraving depicts the...- Contributor: Kilian, Lucas
- Date: 1611-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Photo, Print, DrawingDenier. Charlemagne (742--814) was crowned emperor of the Romans in 800. Yet coins bearing his imperial title are so rare that it is believed that he had them minted only after 812, when he received recognition as emperor of the West by the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire. This denier silver coin is typical of those produced during the Carolingian Renaissance, a period in...
- Contributor: Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814
- Date: 0812-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Photo, Print, DrawingPhilipp Apian's Drawings, Watercolors, and Woodcuts. Between 1554 and 1561 Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria at the behest of Duke Albrecht V. Made without the use of triangulation, Apian's map is considered the first mathematically measured map of a large region. In 1563, Apian completed a large-scale version on vellum to a scale of 1:40,000. This map was destroyed, however, in the 18th century. At...
- Contributor: Amman, Jost
- Date: 1554-01-01
- Resource: - 104 pages
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Photo, Print, DrawingThurneisser's "Astrolabium".
Astrolabium The Archidoxa (1569), a collection of astrological ideas and predictions, is one of the most famous works of Leonhard Thurneisser (or Thurneysser, circa 1530-96), a scholar with broad scientific knowledge, whose involvement in alchemy brought denunciation from some fellow scientists. As an addition to Archidoxa, in 1575 Thurneisser published the Astrolabium. The astrolabe had revolving discs showing constellations and other features of the heavens...- Contributor: Thurneisser Zum Thurn, Leonhard - Hille, Peter
- Date: 1575-01-01
- Resource: - 96 pages