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Embroidered Mantle Fragment, arts of africa oceania and the americas

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Inlay, fragment, maenad hair, Egypt, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

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Gold earring with winged Eros - Public domain portrait print

Hellenistic Public domain photograph of ancient Greek artifact, archaeological object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of ancient Greek artifact, arc... More

Roman Statuette of Venus - Public domain portrait print

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Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

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Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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[Portfolio cover, vol. I: La Basse Egypte.]

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Gold earring with disc and pendant

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Portrait of a Youth with a Surgical Cut in one Eye

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skulptur (Friskulptur), Sweden - Public domain portrait print

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Zittende lezende heer - Public domain portrait print

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Lopend rundvee - Public domain portrait print

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Oostindische vogel - Public domain portrait print

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Detailstudies van vissen, met kleurnotities

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Kabouter knielend knippend op een tafel

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Orgelspelende vrouw - Public domain portrait engraving

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Carte-de-visite met beeld van Hoop

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Jongen zittend op een stoel, wijzend naar rechts

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Rijstvogeltjes - Public domain portrait print

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Ambonse kaketoe - Public domain portrait print

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Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Moses after the sculpture by Michelan...

The Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae is a collection of engravings of Rome and Roman antiquities, the core of which consists of prints published by Antonio Lafreri and gathered under a title page he printed in t... More

Miniature, leaf (4) recto - showing God, angels and graveyard above co...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4443-H. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Death; Incunabula; RBD; Shelf.

Designs for Book Illustrations - Public domain portrait drawing

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[Medieval universe, with heaven above, bands containing stars, and ear...

Illus. in: Buch der natur / Konrad von Megenberg. Augsburg : Johann Bamier, 1481. Ref. copy in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 8.

Solon van Athene, Michel Wolgemut, Germany

Een bloemkelk met een lezende man, naar rechts kijkend. De tekst identificeert hem als Solon van Athene, één van de Zeven wijzen van Griekenland. De prent maakt deel uit van een album.

Ahlspiess, 14th century - Public domain portrait print

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Slavin Roosje van Brandes - Public domain portrait print

Public domain reproduction of portrait print, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Printed vellum page from the first book printed in small type. 1459]

Illus. in: Durantis, Rationale divinorum officiorum [Mainz], 1459. Reference copy may be in LOT 4496. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[A dying man attended by Mary Magdalene and Saint Peter, angels, and t...

Illus. in: Ars moriendi. Germany, 1466. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 69.

[Printed vellum page from Corpus Juris Civilis, 1468]

Reference copy may be in LOT 4496. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Civliano consuli ac patricio Priscianus salutem

Print shows page of text on weights and measures, with illuminated borders. Illus. in: Carmen de ponderibus mensuris. [Venice : Vindelinus de Spira, 1470]. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks... More

Civliano consuli ac patricio Priscianus salutem

Print shows page of text on weights and measures, with illuminated borders.

[Blacksmith shoeing a horse while a man with large sword slays a snake...

Illus. in: Ruralia commoda. [Augsburg] : Johann Schüssler, ca. 16 Feb. (XIIII Kal. Mart.) 1471. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D... More

[Earth, the sun, and moon carried on dragon's back below title in deco...

Title page in: Astronomicum caesareum / Petrus Apianus. [Ingolstadii, 1540] Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p.43.

[Medieval depiction of earth as wheel encircled by ocean; and surround...

Illus. in: Etymologiae / Saint Isidorus, Bishop of Seville. G. Zainer, 1472. Ref. copy in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 7.

[Mechanical device for scaling towers]

Illus. in: De re militari / Roberto Valturio. [Verona] : Joannes Nicolai de Verona, 1472. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : ... More

[Mobile tank-like fortress in the shape of a dragon]

Print shows a dragon-shaped, mobile fortress equipped cannons and capable of carrying troops, with a ladder device mounted on the front used for scaling walls or as a bridge during siege warfare.

Incipit liber tercius de vocabulo arithmetice disciplinae

Beginning text of the third book of Etymologiae, about arithmetic. Title page in: De vocabulo arithmetic disciplinae / Saint Isidorus, Bishop of Seville. In his Etymologiae. [Augustae Vindelicorum] : G. Zainer,... More

Ercole de Roberti - [The Capture of Christ]

This drawing represents the central portion and main action of the painting--Christ's betrayal by Judas--of the Garden of Gethsemane. Dating is difficult, but it is likely that the sheet belongs to the artist... More

[Fisherman using hand net] - Public domain book illustration, Library ...

Illus. in: [Jacobus de Cessolis], De ludo scachorum, [Utrecht, ca. 1475]. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI WORKS; RBD; Fishing (livelihood); Incunabula; Shelf.

[Portable siege ladder]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a portable ladder with sections that are screwed together, used during siege warfare. Illus. in: Des durchleichtigen wolgebornen Grauen Flauii Vegecii Renati kurcze Red von der Ritterschafft (De re... More

Aristotellis stragiritae de historia animalium liber primus

Decorative border and text in: De natura animalium [...] / Aristotle. Venice : Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1492. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C... More

[World map by Ptolemy] - Public domain vintage map

Illus. in: Claudii Ptholemei Alexandrini philosophi Cosmographia. Rome : Arnoldus Buckinck, 10 Oct. (VI Idus Octobris) 1478. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Le... More

[Fable of crane and peacock] - Public domain book illustration, Librar...

Illus. in: Aesopus, Vita et fabulae (German), Augsburg, ca. 1497. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Birds; Incunabula; RBD; Fables; Shelf.

Animals sawing wooden planks - Public domain book illustration, Librar...

Illus. in: Dialogus creaturarum. Gouda : Gerardus Leeu, 1480. Reference copy may be in LOT 4707. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Animals in human situations; ... More

Coat-of-arms. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illus. in: Dialogus creaturarum. Gouda : Gerardus Leeu, 1480. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Animals in human situations; Incunabula; RBD; Coats-of-arms; Shelf.

[Trees with medicinal virtues, growing naturally and cultivated in pot...

Illus. in: Buch der natur / Konrad von Megenberg. Augsburg : J. Bamler, 1481. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 55.

[Half-human monsters called "wonder-people" and soulless animal monste...

Illus. in: Buch der natur / Konrad von Magenberg. Augsburg : J. Bamler, 1481. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 79.

[Woodcuts used to illus. Fables from incunabula...1966: Aesop surround...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4442. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Title page of Elementa geometrie; with decorated border and initial P...

Title page in: Elementa geometria / Euclides. Venice : E. Ratdolt, 1482. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 225.

[Aeneas' ship landing on an island]

Illus. in: French ed. of Virgil's Aeneid, publ. in Lyon in 1483 by Guillaume Le Roy. Reference copy may be in LOT 4714. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Plantain shown with snake and scorpion to indicate plant is antidote ...

Illus. and text in: Herbarium / Apuleius Barbarus. Rome : J.P. Lignamine, ca. 1483-ca. 1484. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 56.

[Sigismund, emperor of Germany, on his death bed, 1437]

Illus. in: Reformation kaiser Sigmunds, 1484. Public domain scan of 15th-century woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain scan of woodcut print, free to u... More

[Illus: Prognostication: Clergyman ("Jupiter") blessing farmer ("Sagit...

Illus. in: Paulus Middelburgensis, Bp., Prognostica ad viginti annos duratura, Antwerp, Gerard Leeu, 28 Sept. 1484. Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card... More

[Knight in armor slaying dragon; woman kneeling]

Illus. in: Raoul Lefevre, Le receuil des histoires de Troyes, Dutch; Haarlem, Jacob Bellaert, 5 May 1485. Reference copy may be in LOT 4246. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption ... More

[Four illustrations of 15th c. daily live from the text of Boethius, D...

Illus. in: Boethius, De consolatione philosphiae. Dutch and Latin. Ghent, Arend de Kaysere, 3 May 1485. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI WORK... More

Des Humeurs et qualites - Public domain dedication image

Qualities of primary matter: elements of earth and water surrounded by concentric circles of air, then fire.

[Four illustrations of 15th c. daily live from the text of Boethius, D...

Du Temps. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Medieval time wheel with twelve signs of zodiac; activities, usually related to plants or planting, for each month of the year; and center scene of woman in summer above man in winter. Illus. and text in: De pr... More

"View of Venice". Book illustration from Library of Congress

Panorama in 4 segments. Illus. in: Sanctarum peregrinationum opusculum. Mains, 1486. Reference copy may be in LOT 4614. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

"View of Venice". Book illustration from Library of Congress

[Life stages from infancy to old age with various accoutrements]

Illus. in: De proprietatibus rerum. Lyons : Johannes Siber, [after 26 Jan. 1486] Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library o... More

"View of Venice". Book illustration from Library of Congress

[Farmers harvesting crops]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illus. in: Opus ruralium commodorum Petri de Crescentijs. Strassburg (Argentine) : [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg], 9 Mar. (quinta feria ante festum S. Gregorii) 1486. Published in: The tradition... More

[Christ]

Illus. in: Ludolphus de Saxonia, Vita Christi (Dutch), Antwerp, 1487. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Incunabula; BI WORKS; BI; RBD; Shelf.

Woman with hunting horn and dog on leash; symbolic representation of "...

Illus. in: Van de geestelijke kindscheid Jesu gemoraliseert, Antwerp, 1488. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Hunting; Bible-N.T.; Incunabula; RBD; Shelf.

[The Trojan Horse]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illus. in: Historia Destructionis Troiae by Guido de Columna. Augsburg, 1488. Reference copymay be in LOT 4714. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Lion with two shields - Public domain book illustration, Library of Co...

[Knights, some on horseback, in hand-to-hand combat]

Illus. in: [L]art de cheualerie selon Vegece. Paris, Antoine Vérard, 26 June 1488. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library... More

[Jean de Gerson, 1362?01428, full, standing, facing left, carrying shi...

May have been executed by durer during apprenticeship. Illus. in: Opera, 1489. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Dante & Virgil confronted by wolf, leopard, and lion

Woodcut with elaborate border. Illus. in: Divine Comedy, 1491 Venetian ed. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

The Scourging of Christ (verso), and The Israelites Enslaved in Egypt ...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, medieval or early renaissance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Page of De mineralibus, with initial O]

Page in: De mineralibus / Saint Albertus Magnus. Pavia : C. de Canibus, 1491. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 199.

[Illustrated title page]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illus. in: Plautius, Nova Typis Transacta Navigatio, 1492, t.p. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Head of a Man Wearing a Cap - Public domain portrait print

Public domain reproduction of portrait print, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Illustrated arithmetic problem showing man stamping on fruit in recta...

Woodcut illus. and text in: Aritmetica / Filippo Calandri. Florence : L. Morgiani and J. Petri, 1492. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 234.

[Cultivation and care of grapevines]

Illus. in: Liber ruralium commodorum [Ruralia commoda]. [Speier: Peter Drach] 1 Oct. (Dienstag nach S. Michael) 1493. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C... More

[Viticultural scenes - man making wine vats]

Illus. in: Latin ed. of Liber ruralium commodorum by Petrus de Crescentiis, printed at Spier by Peter Drach, 1493. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4434 I. See LCQJ Oct. 1966. This record contains unverified, old data f... More

[Cosmos]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illus. in: Liber chronicarum. German. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 23 Dec. 1493. Reference copy may be available in LOT 4444 A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: ... More

[Viticultural scenes - grape vine]

Secunda etas mundi. Page from Liber Chronicarum (The Nuremberg Chronic...

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[Saint Pantaleon, d. 305, full, standing, facing slightly right]

Illus. in: Augustinus de Cremona's Historia S. Pantaleonis. Cremona, 1493. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Viticultural scenes - man crushing grapes in vat with his feet]

[Viticultural scenes - man offering another a cup of wine]

[Viticultural scenes - man using two-pronged hoe in vineyard]

Cessolis. Libro de giuocho di Scacchi. Firenze...1493

Man holding open book with one hand and flask with other; also 2 cuts of man on horseback and man holding scales. One of 15th century Italian prints dealing with books and reading reproduced in Max Sander, Le L... More

L'Aquatinta magnanimo duca. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Decorated initial L showing mathematician Luca Paccioli as Franciscan monk, surrounded by text, and rope-patterened border. Illus. and text in: Somma di arithmetica, geometria, proporzione e proporzionalita / L... More

De insulis nuper in mari Indico repertis

Christopher Columbus discovering America. Illus. in: In laudem Serenissimi Ferdinandi, Hispania[rum] Regis, Bethicae & regni Granatae obsidio victoria & triu[m]phus. Et De insulis in mari Indico nuper inuentis ... More

Herodotus. Historia. Venezia...1494

Person placing laurel wreath on head of scribe in library. One of 15th century Italian prints dealing with books and reading reproduced in: Max Sander, Le Livre a Figures Italien, v. 5. Reference copy may be in... More

De insulis nuper in Mari Indico repertis [and] de insulis nuper invent...

A two-page spread from In laudem Serenissimi Ferdinandi, Hispania[rum] Regis, Bethicae & regni Granatae obsidio victoria & triu[m]phus. Et De insulis in Mari Indico nuper inuentis. [Basel] : I[ohann] B[ergmann,... More

[Medieval book collector sitting at desk, reading]

Illus. in: Das Narrenschiff. Basel : Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 11 Feb. (Fastnacht) 1494. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : L... More

[2 men standing beside woman scribe(?) seated at reading stand]

Illuminated vellum manuscript in Boccaccio, De Casibus vivarum illustrium [Paris, 1494] Reference copy may be in SSF (Gr) - Scribes. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tra... More

[Lion and bird]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illus. in: (Bidpa'i. Arabic version. Kalilah wa-Dimnah. Spanish.) Directorium humanae vitae, Zaragoza, 1494. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Incunabula; Birds... More

[Pietro da Montagnana, a Paduan medical teacher surrounded by Greek an...

Illus. in: Fasciculus medicinae / Johannes de Ketham. Venice : J. and G. de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1495. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 130.

[Man performing autopsy on cadaver lying on table as 8 other men look ...

Illus. in: Joannes de Ketham, Fasciculus medicinae, Venice, Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 15 Oct. 1495, verso of leaf eII. Ref. copy may be in SSF(Gr) - MEDICINE. This record contains unverif... More

[Earth-centered universe, with orbits of moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, J...

Illus. and text in: De caelo / Aristoteles. Venice : B. Locatellus for O. Scotus, 1495. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 255.

[Remondino de Luzzi overseeing assistant in dissection of cadaver as s...

Illus. in: Fasciculus medicinae / Johannes de Ketham. Venice : J. and G. Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1495. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 140.

[Illustrated page with vignette showing Aristotle? pointing to the sta...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, medieval or early renaissance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Illus. of St. Dympna, 7th Century Irish princess who was martyred by r...

Illus. in: Petrus Cameracensis, Legenda S. Dympanae, Oratio de S. Dympanae. Antwerp. Govaert Back, 1496. Reference copy may be in LOT 4443E. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption ... More

[Crowned Greek astronomer Ptolemy and his Renaissance translator Regio...

Frontspiece in: Epytoma in Almagestum / Regiomontus. Venice : J. Hammam, 1496. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 29.

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