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Syr Darya Oblast. Citadel in Khodzhend
This photograph is from the historical part of the Turkestan Album, a comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russia assumed control of the region in the 1860s....
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Recipients of the Saint George Cross and Those Awarded Golden Sabers. For the...
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Recipients of the Cross of Saint George, Awarded with the Highest Military...
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Recipients of the Cross of Saint George, Awarded with the Highest Military...
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Syr Darya Oblast. Fortress of Tashkent
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Blockade and Siege of the Fortified City of Tashkent from May 9 to June 15, 1865
This topographic map shows the battle plan used by Russian forces in the blockade and siege of the ancient city of Tashkent in May-June 1865. The Russians under the command of General Cherniaev...
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General Adjutant Count Vasilii Alekseevic Perovskii, Orenburg...
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Syr Darya Oblast. Ruins of the Citadel at Aulie Ata
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Recipients of the Cross of Saint George, Awarded with the Highest Military...
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The Book of Hermes the Wise
Kitāb Hirmis al-ḥakīm (The book of Hermes the Wise) is a text on invocations, magical incantations, and medicinal draughts used for the treatment of maladies. The purported author, Hermes Trismegistus...
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The Canon of Medicine
Abu ʻAli al-Husayn Ibn Sina was born in Bukhara (present-day Uzbekistan) in 980 and died in Hamadan (present-day Iran) in 1037. One of the intellectual luminaries of the medieval world, known in the...
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Collection of Well-tested Medical Remedies
The genre of mujarrabat consists of collections of medical case studies, including tested medical remedies found to be useful in the treatment of the listed ailments. Therapeutic manuals of this type...
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Recovery from Diseases and Remedy for Pains
The full name of the author of Shifāʼ al-asqām wa dawāʼ al-ālām (Recovery from diseases and remedy for pains) is Khidr ibn ʻAli ibn Marwan ibnʿAli ibn Husam al-Din, originally called al-Qunawi, also...
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The Book of Elegance in the Science of Agriculture
‘Abd al-Ghani ibn Isma’il al-Nabulusi (1641‒1731, 1050‒1143 AH) was an influential Syrian author whose corpus of at least 150 known works primarily treat mystical and other theological matters. After...
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A Compendium Aiming at Preservation of Health and Repelling of Disease
This work is a manuscript copy of Jāmi‘ al-gharaḍ fī ḥifẓ al-ṣiḥḥah wa-daf‘ al-maraḍ (A compendium aimed at preserving health and repelling disease) by the Syrian physician Abu al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qub Ibn...
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The New Chemical Medicine Invented by Paracelsus
Al-Ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmiyāʼī alladhī ikhtaraʻahu Barākalsūs (The new chemical medicine invented by Paracelsus) is an Arabic compendium of alchemical works from early modern Europe by Salih ibn...
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Poem on the Causes and Symptoms of Fevers
Although the colophon of this manuscript copy of al-Urjūzah fī asbāb al-ḥamīyāt wa ’alāmātihā (Poem on the causes and symptoms of fevers) attributes the work to Abu ʻAli Husayn Ibn Sina (born in...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Hōrin Temple Moon - Yokobue
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Print Index
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Takakura Moon - Hasebe Nobutsura
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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