https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=42&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Displayed+as+.jpg&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CCreator&page=2&output=atom2024-03-28T13:44:51-04:00Omekahttps://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1070A work written under the pen name, Theophilus Agricola (either Caspar Schewenckfeld von Ossig or his assistant, Georg Meyer) that refutes the Lutheran teachings of Matthias Flacius Illyricus and Nicholas Gallus.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:16-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/480In this treatise d'Ailly sought to reconcile theology and the science of astronomy, which included astrology]]>2022-11-26T12:54:08-05:00
Prothro B-39. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Robert Aitken, at Pope's Head, three doors above the Coffee-House, in Market Street, 1782.
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1641This collection of fifty-two biographies of female saints was compiled by Aegidius Albertinus, the Bavarian court librarian and royal secretary in Munich. The biographies are illustrated with portraits by Raphael Sadeler II (1560–1632), the court engraver in Munich.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:24-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1293Falsely attributed to St. Albertus Magnus (c. 1206–1280), the "Secrets of Women and Men" was compiled from a variety of Western and Arabic treatises on medicine and astrology. This text shows the primitive state of medicine at the time through its inaccurate descriptions of male and female physiology.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:19-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1771Aldrovandi studied in Bologna, Padua, Rome, and Pisa where his interests included antiquities and botany. Author of several works on medicine and natural philosophy, he is most well known for his thirteen-volume illustrated work on natural history. Only four of the thirteen volumes were published in his lifetime, while the remaining volumes, compiled and edited by his students and colleagues, were published between 1606 and 1668. This is his single volume on serpents and dragons.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:26-05:00
BRC0010. Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605?). Serpentum, et draconu[m] historiae libri duo. Bologna: Clemente Ferroni for the publisher Marco Antonio Bernia, 1640.
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1772Aldrovandi studied in Bologna, Padua, Rome, and Pisa where his interests included antiquities and botany. Author of several works on medicine and natural philosophy, he is most well known for his thirteen-volume illustrated work on natural history. Only four of the thirteen volumes were published in his lifetime, while the remaining volumes, compiled and edited by his students and colleagues, were published between 1606 and 1668. This is his single volume on fish.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:26-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1773Aldrovandi studied in Bologna, Padua, Rome, and Pisa where his interests included antiquities and botany. Author of several works on medicine and natural philosophy, he is most well known for his thirteen-volume illustrated work on natural history. Only four of the thirteen volumes were published in his lifetime, while the remaining volumes, compiled and edited by his students and colleagues, were published between 1606 and 1668. These are the three ornithological works.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:26-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1300Parts I and II of the four-part Doctrinale puerorum, a primary textbook used during the late Middle Ages. Labels and inscriptions identify the books as property of the Benedictine Abbey at Melk.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:19-05:00
07045. ALEXANDER DE VILLA DEI (c. 1175–1240). Doctrinale puerorum (Part I). Commentary by Gerardus Zutphaniensis (1367–1398). Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 5 March 1494. [Bound with:] ALEXANDER DE VILLA DEI. Doctrinale puerorum (Part II). Commentary by Gerardus Zutphaniensis. Nuremberg Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 20 March 1494.
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/494Papal Bull confirming possessions of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Pierre at Meobecq within the diocese of Bourges, France.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:08-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1702Papal Bull confirming privileges and domains of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Pierre at Meobecq within the diocese of Bourges, France.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1805Papal Bull confirming privileges and domains of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Pierre at Meobecq within the diocese of Bourges, France. The scribe set off the formal preamble in majestic elongated letters, and beneath the main text added the circular papal rota, the pope's name, and an elaborate monogram of the papal farewell "Bene Valete."]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/616Copy 250 of 500. Illustrated version of Psalm 24 on sheets of colored paper trimmed to varying widths.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:10-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/524Letter from Robert Alexander to Littleton Fowler, two members tasked with leading the Texas Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church missionaries. In this letter, Alexander discusses Ruter's death, funeral, and gravesite.
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]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2143Natural goatskin with purple Harmatan goatskin, a modified lacunose technique and stingray onlays. Marbled endsheets by Catherine Levine. The two interlocking circles are based on the vesica piscis. The purple ring symbolizes the spiritual with gilt stars, the flowering Holy Thorn tree represents the material world. On the spine, Excalibur bisects the interlocking shapes while the outer ring binds them as a whole.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:32-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/716First printed Turkish translation of the New Testament. Originally translated by Ali Bey (Albertus Bobowsky) in 1666.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:10-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2088Full green, goatskin over laced-on boards. Paste paper ends by the binder. Design executed with painted foil stamped onlaid leather, tooling colored foils, and relief imagery. The motif illustrates the transformation of a women, the object of the author's unreturned affection, from a vibrant beauty to a cold, heartless figure of stone. Bound in 2002.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:32-05:00
Dante Alighieri. The Stone Beloved: Six Poems from Dante Alighieri. Translated by Harry Duncan, lithographs by Peter Nickel. Austin, TX: Kairos Press, 1986.
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/607Copy 10 of 50, bound in green goatskin. Allix's illustrations are etchings and aquatints and reflect her idea that books represent a medium for creative expression.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:10-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2123Borges’ eyes have been chosen from the line drawing for a unifying element of the content and the cover. The “eyes” would be cast and covered with leather and attached to the cover. The stamped and foiled ambigram on the back is symbolic of literary genius. Titles of the short stories would be letterpressed on handmade paper in small and cramped handwritten typeface similar to the actual handwriting.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:32-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/793First edition of the Danish translation of the Lutheran Bible includes illustrations from woodcuts by Erhard Altdorfer (c. 1485–1561).]]>2022-11-26T12:54:12-05:00
Prothro B-192. [Danish Bible]. Biblia, det er, Den gantske Hellige Scrifft, udsaet paa danske. Copenhagen: Ludwig Dietz, 1550. From the Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Collection.
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/624Copy 27 out of 200 printed. Text is Robert Alter's English translation with facing text from Biblio Hebraica Stuttgartensis (1967).]]>2022-11-26T12:54:10-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1877The immediate impact of Dürer’s St. Jerome frontispiece of 1492 is evident in this woodcut of St. Ambrose, printed in Basel later the same year. Similar to the St. Jerome in conception but less sophisticated in its placement of objects on the floor, this print has been attributed to Dürer himself, although most scholars now assign it to an anonymous artisan in Basel.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:28-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1532Bound by a follower of skilled master Conradus de Argentina. This book has eighteen blind stamps which are attributed to de Argentina's followers. The binding might have been done by a follower who later utilized de Argentina's tools.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:22-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/117Early translations of the Bible and portions of the Bible were completed as early as seventh century CE, but until the 1800s, it was difficult to create translations that survived. This particular translation features English and Chinese in parallel columns.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:01-05:00
Prothro B-385, [Chinese Gospel of Matthew]. The Gospel of Matthew in English and Mandarin. Published by the American Bible Society. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1884. Part of Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible Collection