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Illuminated border and initial from BL King's 23, f. 1

Illuminated initial 'E'(go) and a full border with the arms probably of the Del Drago family of Rome, at the beginning of Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares. Image taken from f. 1 of Epistolae ad familiares. Writ... More

Illuminated initial and full border with heraldic arms from BL Burn 15...

Illuminated intial 'Q'(uanquam) and full border with heraldic arms (of the Lan family of Treviso ?), supported by sphinxes. Image taken from f. 2 of Orationes, etc. Written in Latin.

Abbildung aller medizinisch-ökonomisch-technologischen Gewächse mit de...

Origanum vulgare Bot. - Wohlgemuth - Wohlgemut - Oregano Public domain photograph of medieval botanical illustration, illuminated manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abbildung aller medizinisch-ökonomisch-technologischen Gewächse mit de...

Datura stramonium Bot. Tolläpfel Public domain photograph of medieval botanical illustration, illuminated manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Flight into Egypt, from The Life of the Virgin, from the Latin Edi...

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg) Public domain photograph of 16th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Flight into Egypt is a bi... More

[Interior of a metallurgist's workshop with furnace and implements of ...

Illus. in: Voarchadvmia contra alchi'miam: ars distincta ab archimi'a, & sophia: cum additionibus: proportionibus: numeris: & figuris opportunis. Venetiis : 1530. Published in: The tradition of technology : La... More

St. Brendan holding mass on the back of a whale

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

Venezuela, cum parte Auftrali Novae Andalausiae.

Place names in Spanish. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. 2 copies; 1 copy as of 07/27/98 Vault

Provincia = Provence, Joan Blaeu 1596-1673 - Vintage map, Norman B. Le...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Regnum Bohemiae cum adiunctis ducatu Silesiae et marchionat Moraviae e...

Escala gráfica, además en : 'milliaria gallica sive horae itin. 20 in uno gradu'. Coordenadas : E32 00'-E40 00'/N52 20'-N48 35'. Sin especificar meridiano

Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali.

Scales vary. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Sheet title in Latin and German. Individual map titles and text in German. Maps in English and German. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 83 Differs from o... More

Nouae Africae delineatio - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

This mid-18th-century map of Africa includes fictitious place names that are often found in African maps of this era, such as the mysterious and mostly unexplored interior regions here called Monomotapa and Mon... More

Azalea pontica; Odur kavkazskii [Azalea Caucasus]

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Abbildungen aller medizinisch-ökonomisch-technologischen Gewächse mit ...

Purpurrother Täubling. Public domain scan of 19th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abbildungen aller medizinisch-ökonomisch-technologischen Gewächse mit ...

Der Pfefferschwamm. Public domain scan of 19th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abbildungen aller medizinisch-ökonomisch-technologischen Gewächse mit ...

Safrangelbe Pfirsiche. Public domain scan of 19th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abbildungen aller medizinisch-ökonomisch-technologischen Gewächse mit ...

Wundkraut. Gemeine Wollblume. Public domain scan of 19th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eve after the Fall / Mecarino inventore, Anda. intagliat[o]re Mant[ua]...

Print shows Eve covering herself with a fig tree branch. After Domenico Beccafumi. Dedication: Al S. Guavio Portiani Canonico del Duomo di Siena dedico l'anno MDLxxxvi. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by ... More

Abbildung aller medizinisch-ökonomisch-technologischen Gewächse mit de...

Kaempferia rotunda. Bot. Die Zittwerwurzel. Public domain photograph of medieval botanical illustration, illuminated manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conference of Latin American retailers. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. Repr...

A group of men in suits and ties posing for a picture. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rhodomela scorpioides. Botanical cyanotype contact print

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Meditatio[ne]s Iordani de vita et passio[n]e Ih[es]u [Christ]i.Meditat...

Rosenwald 209 Goff J-475 Copinger-Reichling 3372 Campbell-Kronenberg 1049 Bound with Rosarium Beatae Mariae Virginis. Rosariu[m] Beate Marie V[ir]g[in]is. [Magdeburg, ca. 1500?] LC copy imperfect: leaves [9-16]... More

Athanasius Kircher - Arx Babylonica à Semiramide, exstructa.

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Central America History, Aztec, Mesoamerica, Mexico, Pre-Columbus America free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Rosenwald 237 Goff H-58 Hain 1322 Copinger 532 (variant) BM 15th cent., IV, p. 131 (IA.19267) (variation) GW 2300 LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Provenance: F.W.T. Hunger, Amsterdam (bookplate).

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Rosenwald 237 Goff H-58 Hain 1322 Copinger 532 (variant) BM 15th cent., IV, p. 131 (IA.19267) (variation) GW 2300 LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Provenance: F.W.T. Hunger, Amsterdam (bookplate).

Musæum hermeticum, omnes sopho-spagyricæ artis discipulos fidelissime ...

Title within engr. border. Each tract has special engr. t.-p. LAC ecr 2018-09-06 LAC Review Completed 2018-09-10

Single leaf from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin

[recto] .. petebat ut sibi .. / R. Hic est sacer antistes ze/[verso]no .. / & fulserunt in mundum mi[racula] .. Office of St. Zeno (12 April) Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Rosenwald 237 Goff H-58 Hain 1322 Copinger 532 (variant) BM 15th cent., IV, p. 131 (IA.19267) (variation) GW 2300 LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Provenance: F.W.T. Hunger, Amsterdam (bookplate).

Missal : use of York : in Latin

Public domain reproduction of English medieval illuminated manuscript page, Latin, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica

This is the first edition of Newton's Principia, in which he elucidates the universal laws of gravitation and motion that underlay the phenomena described by Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler. Newton also establis... More

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica

This is the first edition of Newton's Principia, in which he elucidates the universal laws of gravitation and motion that underlay the phenomena described by Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler. Newton also establis... More

Harmonia macrocosmica, seu, Atlas universalis et novus, totius univers...

Public domain scan of a page from geographical atlas, geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harmonia macrocosmica, seu, Atlas universalis et novus, totius univers...

Public domain scan of a page from geographical atlas, geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harmonia macrocosmica, seu, Atlas universalis et novus, totius univers...

Public domain scan of a page from geographical atlas, geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Almagestum Cl. Ptolemi, 1515 book

The Almagest is a 2nd-century Greek-language mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths, written by Claudius Ptolemy. It is one of the most influential scien... More

Astrolabivm physicum - A drawing of a sundial on a piece of paper

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mahometes secundus Turcarum Imperator, p. 164

Public domain scan of renaissance or mannerist print or drawing, 16th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

End of Pater Noster, opening of the Creed, fol. 251

Public domain reproduction of illuminated medieval manuscript page, Latin, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Full-page miniature of lovers walking in a garden, in April, fol. 5v

A book of hours is a type of devotional text that was popular in the Middle Ages, particularly in the late medieval period. It is a type of prayer book that contains a collection of prayers and devotional texts... More

Enteromorpha compressa - Early photography, Public domain image

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Joseph Hawley Papers - Texts in Latin

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Sanctus and Benedictus - Public domain American music sheet

[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hierony...

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination (col. diagrs., col. maps) 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of... More

Americae pars sexta, sive, Historiae ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono Mediolane[...

The t.p., with a new engr. title on a slip mounted over the original text, is repeated preceding the plates. First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 158. Novae Novi Orbis historiae, liber 3... More

Epistolarum astronomicarum libri., Latin book

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Missarum cum quinque, sex, & octo, vocibus, liber primus

Capricorn from BL Harley 2506, f. 39

Drawing of the constellation Capricorn, with the stars picked out as red dots. Image taken from f. 39 of Phaenomena (also known as the Aratea). Written in Latin.

Foliate initial and full border from BL Arundel 124, f. 1

Foliate initial 'C'(ogitanti) and full border, at the beginning of Cicero's De oratore. Image taken from f. 1 of De oratore (ff. 1-88); De senectute (ff. 89-101); De amicitia (ff. 101v-116v); De optimo genere o... More

Eridanus from BL Harley 647, f. 10v

Detail of an illustration of the longest constellation in the sky, Eridanus or river god with his body formed of text or scholia. An Anglo-Saxon reader has made several corrections to the verses of the 'Aratea... More

Abbildung aller medizinisch-ökonomisch-technologischen Gewächse mit de...

Paeonia officinalis Bot. - Päonie Public domain scan of 18th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prima Europae tabula - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Public domain scan of an old vintage map, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Die neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India...

Relief shown pictorially. South America labeled in German, geographic features otherwise in Latin. Appears in the author's Cosmographei. Basel, Switzerland. 1550. Available also through the Library of Congress ... More

Thracia et Bulgaria cum viciniis : Карта

В долния ляв ъгъл на картата е гравиран портрет на султан Махмут ІІ. На гърба на картата има подробни сведения за картографираната територия на готиш (gothic) и цифрата 67, изнесена в горния десен ъгъл на листа... More

Noua totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula

First published in 1606, Blaeu's world map is one of the foremost examples of ornamentation and decoration during the Golden Age of Dutch cartography. This map had a long life, and was reissued numerous times, ... More

[Men operating water pumps during building fire]

Illus. in: Theatrum machinarvm novvm, exhibeus aqvarias, alatas, ivmentarias, manuarias .... Coloniæ Agrippinæ : sumptibus P. Principis, 1662. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western t... More

Pvgna navalis in ipsis faucibus freti Öresund Svecos inter et Belgas ...

View of the Battle of the Sound between Sweden and the Dutch Republic in 1658. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Palaestina seu Terra olim Sancta tum duodecim tribubus distributa tum ...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy: Hand colored.

America Septentrionalis a Domino d'Anville in Galliis edita nunc in An...

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro and London. Place names and descriptive notes in English. Differs from other copies in coloration and boundaries. Colors do n... More

Abbildungen aller medizinisch-ökonomisch-technologischen Gewächse mit ...

Der Herbstadonis. Public domain scan of 19th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abbildungen aller medizinisch-ökonomisch-technologischen Gewächse mit ...

Die gemeine Gleisse. Public domain scan of 19th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abbildungen aller medizinisch-ökonomisch-technologischen Gewächse mit ...

Die Leberblume. Dreylappige Anemone. Public domain scan of 19th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Irlandiae regnum. Historic map, Library of Congress

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Insula Borneo et occidentalis pars Celebris, cum adjacentibus insulis

Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Iudæa Seu Palæstina ob Sacratissima Redemtoris vestigia hodie dicta Te...

Relief shown by hachures. Includes inset of "Populi Israelitici ex Ægypto per Desertum in Terram Promissionis Canaan quadraginta annorum Iter Stationes et Profectio." Minimal level cataloging record. Available ... More

Jerusalem from the Latin Convent, including the Mount of Olives, the M...

Public domain photograph related to history of Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Quartier Latin. A magazine devoted to the arts / Louis Rhead.

Poster with art nouveau aspects showing a seated woman holding a palette and paint brushes. Promotional goal: Fr .D41 189-. Publication Artistique de La Plume.

Louis Rhead - The Quartier latin, a magazine devoted to the arts

lithographie Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The burden of the Latin races / Dalrymple.

Print shows a man labeled "Latin Races" carrying a clergyman on his shoulders. Illus. from Puck, v. 44, no. 1143, (1899 February 1), cover. Copyright 1899 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.

Boston Normal and Girls' Latin School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Communist Subversion in Latin America (Poster) 65-323

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Distribution Center: Multiple Post: RSC - Beirut Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East

A North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) RIM-7M Sea Sparrow radar-g...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: UNITAS 43-03 Base: Uss Fife (DD 991) Scene Major Command Shown: destroyer USS Fife (DD-991) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Shane ... More

A port bow view of the US Navy (USN) Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Caribbean Sea Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Robert Brooks, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A starboard bow view of the US Navy (USN) Ticonderoga Class Guided Mis...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Caribbean Sea Scene Camera Operator: PHAA Jennifer Apsey, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - League of United La...

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

Adeste fideles the celebrated Portuguese hymn for Christmas Day with a...

For voice and piano. Latin words with interlineal English translation. (language) Staff notation. (language)

Mutus liber, L'Alchimie - Public domain portrait engraving

In Latin Attributed to a possibly fictitious Jacob Saulat or Sulat (of which Altus is an anagram) and also to a doctor Tolié . Cf. E. Canseliet L'Alchimie et son Livre muet {1967} The plates , re-engraved afte... More

Motets book 4 - Public domain music sheet scan

di Alessandro Grandi vice maestro di capella della serenissima Signoria di Venetia in San Marco. (statement of responsibility) Parts for canto, alto, tenore, and basso. Title vignette; ornamental borders; initi... More

Andreae Vesalii suorum De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome

Signatures; A-M¹, 2 leaves unsigned. Illus. by J. S. van Calcar. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 906 LAC brd 2018-11-14 update (1 card) LAC kcc 2018-11-15 review

Andreae Vesalii suorum De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome

Signatures; A-M¹, 2 leaves unsigned. Illus. by J. S. van Calcar. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 906 LAC brd 2018-11-14 update (1 card) LAC kcc 2018-11-15 review

Single leaf from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin

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

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Rosenwald 237 Goff H-58 Hain 1322 Copinger 532 (variant) BM 15th cent., IV, p. 131 (IA.19267) (variation) GW 2300 LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Provenance: F.W.T. Hunger, Amsterdam (bookplate).

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Rosenwald 237 Goff H-58 Hain 1322 Copinger 532 (variant) BM 15th cent., IV, p. 131 (IA.19267) (variation) GW 2300 LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Provenance: F.W.T. Hunger, Amsterdam (bookplate).

Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudente...

LAC scc 2018-11-06 update (1 card)

Liber cronicarum, cum figuris et ymaginibus ab inicio mundi

Title extracted from woodcut title of register (leaf [1a]), which begins: Registrum huius operis Libri cronicarum ... Illus. by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Rosenwald 163 Goff S-307 Hain-Copinger ... More

Novvm et insigne opvs mvsicvm sex, qvinqve et qvatvor vocum, cvivs in ...

Principally motets. Title from supplied t.p. of tenor part. Parts for discantus, altus, tenor, bassus, vagans, and sexta vox. Each part contains an index of first lines. In the LC tenor part the title, the dedi... More

Novvm et insigne opvs mvsicvm sex, qvinqve et qvatvor vocum, cvivs in ...

Principally motets. Title from supplied t.p. of tenor part. Parts for discantus, altus, tenor, bassus, vagans, and sexta vox. Each part contains an index of first lines. In the LC tenor part the title, the dedi... More

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica

This is the first edition of Newton's Principia, in which he elucidates the universal laws of gravitation and motion that underlay the phenomena described by Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler. Newton also establis... More

Visigoth Antiphonal (Catedral de León) e

Book decoration patterns, fonts etc. collection from various sources selected by BibliOdyssey.

Harmonia macrocosmica, seu, Atlas universalis et novus, totius univers...

Public domain scan of a page from geographical atlas, geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Magnificat, musical notation - Public domain American sheet music 1870...

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

[Florida Indians planting seeds of beans or maize]

Timucua men cultivating a field and Timucua women planting corn or beans. Illus. in: Brevis narratio eorvm qvæ in Florida Americæ provi̇cia Gallis acciderunt, secunda in illam nauigatione, duce Renato de Laudōn... More

[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings]....

Manuscript on vellum. Gothic script in black and red. Pen-and-ink drawings, some slightly colored, with explanatory text in German or Latin. Subject matter and form of presentation is similar to that in 15th ce... More

De re coquinaria, 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

Goff A-921 Hain 1283 = 1283, note (variant) BM 15th cent., VI, p. 789 (IA.26887) GW 2267 (+ note) IGI 750 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy imperfect: first 2 leaves wanting.

Materia Prima - Public domain dedication image

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Commentarii Academiae scientiarum imperialis Petropolitanae vol. 1, ti...

Delesseria sanguinea - Early photography, Public domain image

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Delesseria sanguinea in fruit - Public domain dedication image

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Rhodomenia palmetta - Early photography, Public domain image

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Horae, fol. 14, illuminated manuscript

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. A book of hours is a type of devotional text that was popular in the ... More

Horae, fol. 46v

A book of hours is a type of devotional text that was popular in the Middle Ages, particularly in the late medieval period. It is a type of prayer book that contains a collection of prayers and devotional texts... More