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Il Tiberio, Volume 1, Number 24, 15 November 1897

Il Tiberio was a manuscript magazine produced in Barcelona at the end of the 19th century. It contained articles, reviews of artistic and other cultural and political matters, and original drawings....

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Il Tiberio, Volume 2, Number 31, 1 March 1898

Il Tiberio was a manuscript magazine produced in Barcelona at the end of the 19th century. It contained articles, reviews of artistic and other cultural and political matters, and original drawings....

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Il Tiberio, Volume 2, Number 30, 15 February 1898

Il Tiberio was a manuscript magazine produced in Barcelona at the end of the 19th century. It contained articles, reviews of artistic and other cultural and political matters, and original drawings....

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Il Tiberio, Volume 2, Number 29, 1 February 1898

Il Tiberio was a manuscript magazine produced in Barcelona at the end of the 19th century. It contained articles, reviews of artistic and other cultural and political matters, and original drawings....

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Il Tiberio, Volume 2, Number 28, 15 January 1898

Il Tiberio was a manuscript magazine produced in Barcelona at the end of the 19th century. It contained articles, reviews of artistic and other cultural and political matters, and original drawings....

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Il Tiberio, Volume 2, Number 35, 1 May 1898

Il Tiberio was a manuscript magazine produced in Barcelona at the end of the 19th century. It contained articles, reviews of artistic and other cultural and political matters, and original drawings....

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Il Tiberio, Volume 2, Number 34, 15 April 1898

Il Tiberio was a manuscript magazine produced in Barcelona at the end of the 19th century. It contained articles, reviews of artistic and other cultural and political matters, and original drawings....

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Il Tiberio, Volume 2, Number 33, 1 April 1898

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Il Tiberio, Volume 2, Number 32, 15 March 1898

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Exposition of Realities Explaining “Treasury of Intricacies”

This six-volume work of al-shari’ah (Islamic law) is a commentary by ʻUthman ibn ʻAli al-Zaylaʻi (died 1342 or 1343) on a compendium of judgments by ʻAbd Allah ibn Ahmad Al-Nasafi (died 1310), a near...

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The Lesser Compilation of Hadiths of the Consecrated Messenger

This manuscript dating from the late 17th century is a collection of hadiths, or sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, by the Egyptian polymath Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (1445−1505). The work is carefully...

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Capstone Dictionary of Unusual Words of Hadith and of Yore

Al-Nihāyah fī gharīb al-ḥadīth wa-al-athar (Capstone dictionary of unusual words of hadith and of yore) is a four-volume dictionary of words in the hadiths, or the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, by...

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Gospel Book

This Gospel book dating from the mid-11th century comprises 16 canon tables, positioned at the beginning after the prologues, nine full-page carpet pages, initial pages, and decorated pages, as well...

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Epistles of Paul with Commentary

This manuscript dating from the 12th century, written in Caroline minuscule in one hand throughout, contains the Epistles of Saint Paul with an interlinear gloss and marginal glosses. The beginnings...

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"Life of Saint Margaret" and Lives of Other Saints

Illuminated legends of saints are preserved in only a few manuscripts from the 11th century. One of the rare examples is this manuscript from the monastery of Benediktbeuern, Bavaria, which arrived in...

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Encyclopedia of the Fourteenth Century A.H., Twentieth Century A.D.: A...

This ten-volume encyclopedia is an effort to reconcile Islamic belief with the scientific and intellectual currents of the West early in the 20th century. Entirely the work of one man, Muhammad Farid...

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Historical Realities of Maritime Principalities

Haqāʼiq al-akhbār ʻan duwal al-biḥār (Historical realities of maritime principalities) is a comprehensive textbook in three volumes on the history of European and Middle Eastern maritime powers from...

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Prayer Book of Emperor Maximilian I

There are six known copies of this prayer book, which was printed on parchment in an edition of only ten copies at the behest of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459−1519) for knights of the Order of...

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"Of the Nature of Things" and "Of the Times" by Bede. Letters by Saint Jerome...

This manuscript contains two works on computus (computations) by the Anglo-Saxon scholar the Venerable Bede (673−735), De natura rerum (Of the nature of things) and De temporum ratione (Of the times),...

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Gratian's Decree

The Decretum Gratiani, also known as the Concordantia Discordantium Canonum, is a collection of canon law completed around 1140 by Gratian, a Benedictine monk from Italy who taught at the Monastery of...

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