Scientific or magical text in an unidentified language, in cipher, apparently based on Roman minuscule characters; the text is believed by some scholars to be the work of Roger Bacon since the themes of the illustrations seem to represent topics known...
Nahuatl map on maguey paper documenting agricultural holdings in the Valley of Mexico, probably fields of bulrush or maize under the colonial jurisdiction of Tenochtitlan-Mexico City, ca. 1565
Description:
Available on x-ray film
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico, Mexico., Mexico City (Mexico), and Mexico, Valley of (Mexico)
Subject (Name):
Alvarado Huanitzin, Don Diego de., Cecepátic, Don Cristóbal de., Guzmán, Don Esteban de., San Francisco Tehuetzquititzin, Don Diego de., Santa María Cipac, Don Luis de., and Velasco, Luis de, 1500?-1564.
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Corn, Indian cartography, Indians of Mexico, Discovery and exploration, History, Maps, and Early works to 1800
Manuscript of a Manual containing 18 works, including instructions of Mass, moral instructions, meditations for prayer, a calendar, and two works ascribed to Thomas Aquinas
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. and Carthusians.
BEIN 1983 Folio 19: Imperfect: mutilated along fold, with some loss of text; portions of decorative border cut or torn and repaired; tears repaired. Sheet measures 46.1 x 55 cm. No. 26 of 92 maps bound together.
An illustrated advertising handbill for Thomas Haines's fly waggons and fly vans, running from the Blossoms Inn in the City of London to the Royal Hotel Yard, Cheltenham. Illustrated with a vignette at head of a covered fly waggon driven by two men; ...
Alternative Title:
Thomas Haines, Junior, fly waggons to London from the Royal Hotel Yard
Description:
Title from first line of text.
Publisher:
S.Y. Griffith & Co., copper plate printers
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Thomas Haines Jun. (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Carriages and carts, Advertising, and Carriages & coaches
Stubbs, George Townly, -1815?, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[30 April 1795]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, bust, three-quarter to left, looking towards the viewer, with a top hat, curled hair at ears, frilled front shirt, open dark waistcoat and jacket; in an oval; after Stubb's enamel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published April 30, 1795, by G.T. Stubbs, 86 High Street, Mary'bone
Subject (Geographic):
India.
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818.
