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[Etching and engraving of the burial shrine of Odeschalco]

Etching and engraving of the Italian noble family Odeschalcos burial shrine printed circa 1800. The print is attributed to designer Leopoldo Buzi and printmaker Giovannia Acquaroni. The print show a line etching of the shrine with Latin text on its front at the top of a stone platform with stairs flanked by two statues of Roman muses. The image is paired with descriptive Italian text below the printed image.
Date: 1800
Creator: Buzi, Leopoldo & Acquaroni, Giovannia
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Perusini agri [Umbria, Italy].

Map shows cities and villages pictorially in the region of Umbria, Italy during the late-sixteenth century. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1584
Creator: Danti, Ignazio, 1536-1586
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mosaic]

Photograph of a mosaic in Venice, Italy. Half of a domed roof is visible in the foreground. The dome is decorated a detailed mosaic depicting many figures in front of a building. Below the mosaic, a row of columns and a carved archway are visible.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gough, Ray
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[St. Mark's Basilica doorway]

Photograph of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy. The top detail of a doorway fills the frame. A mosaic scene is inset into the top half dome of the doorway. Columns line the sides under the mosaic. The doorway is carved out of marble.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gough, Ray
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[The Trevi Fountain]

Photograph of the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy. In the foreground, a portion of the piazza in front of the fountain is visible and crowded with people. Behind the people, the fountain is visible along with the top of the Palazzo Poli, which is the backdrop for the fountain.
Date: July 1965
Creator: Gough, Ray
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Unbound sheets] (open access)

Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Unbound sheets]

A complete set of unbound sheets of the last printing of the Pickering Horace. The Horace was originally printed by Pickering in 1820 as the first of his Diamond Classics, and are a landmark in the world of miniature books and printing. This set of sheets are a remarkable survival, giving insight into the printing and binding process. The sheets are quarter-sheet impressions, each sheet holding 8 front-and-back leaves (16 pages) of the text. The sheets have been folded into gathers, and left thus. The separately printed frontispiece engraving is included as an individual sheet. The whole is housed in a book-form leather case.
Date: 1826
Creator: Horace
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Africae tabula geographica.

Map shows northern coast of Africa, Iberian and Italian peninsulas, and larger islands in the Mediterranean Sea. Includes notes. Scale not given.
Date: 1742
Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of Europe as queen]

Map shows a stylized Europe in the form of a woman. [Spain] is her head and [Gaul], [Germany], [Denmark], [Poland], [Hungary], [Greece], [Bulgaria], [Macedonia], and Scythia are the remainder of her body. Europe is shown surrounded by Africa, [England], [Scotland], [Scandinavia], and Asia. Includes text in lower margin. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1550..1570]
Creator: Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Antoninianus coin of Roman emperor Claudius Marcus Aurelius (Claudius II Gothicus)

Antoninianus coin of Roman emperor Claudius Marcus Aurelius (Claudius II Gothicus) bearing on the obverse the emperor bust radiate right; Fortune stands facing left on reverse.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Coin of Gordianus III Pius Antoninianus

Coin showing on the obverse crowned Gordian III radiate bust right. The reverse shows Security standing or leaning on a shield and column or a long staff.
Date: 0238/0244
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Coin of Nero from Seleucis-Pieria in Antioch

Coin from the ancient Roman city of Seleucia Pieria of the emperor head right on the observe; SC is set within a wreath and dotted border on the reverse.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Coin of Roman Emperor Constans

Coin of Roman Emperor Constans that bears a portrait of the emperor head right with a laurel wreath around Latin lettering on reverse.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Coin of Roman emperor Maximianus I from Londinium mint

Coin of Roman emperor Maximianus I from Londinium mint showing laureate head left on the obverse and two standing figures on the reverse.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Coin of Roman emperor Valentininan II

Coin of Roman emperor Valentinian II bearing on the obverse a head, with diadem, bust right and on the reverse with two figures standing with scepters.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Imperial Antoninianus coin of Constantine I (the Great)

Imperial Antoninianus coin of Constantine I (the Great) showing on obverse the emperor bust right; the reverse has a laurel wreath.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Imperial Antoninianus coin of Constantine II

Roman Imperial Antoninianus coin of Constantine II showing on the obverse laureate head bust right with two soldiers on reverse.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Imperial Antoninianus coin of Constantine II

Imperial Antoninianus coin of Constantine II showing on the obverse bust right; the reverse shows two soldiers, each holding a spear in outer hand and resting inner hand on grounded shield.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Imperial Antoninianus coin of Gallienus

Imperial Antoninianus coin of Gallienus shown on the obverse radiate bust right; the reverse shows the goddess Annona holding a cornucopia right and grain ears over a modius right.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Imperial Antoninianus coin of Gordian III from Rome

Roman Empire Antoninianus coin of Gordian III radiate head bust right on the obverse; SC within a wreath on reverse.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Imperial Antoninianus coin of Philip I of Rome

Roman Empire Antoninianus coin of King Philip I bust right on the obverse; the goddess of corn-harvest, Annona, standing front, head left, holding two corn ears and cornucopia on reverse.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Imperial Antoninianus coin of Roman Emperor Constantine I

Imperial Antoninianus coin of Roman Emperor Constantine I showing the emperor on the obverse laureate bust right; the reverse bears the inscription SOL INVICTO COMITI with the sun god, Sol, holding a globe on reverse.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Leaf from a 15th Century Breviary, French or Italian] (open access)

[Leaf from a 15th Century Breviary, French or Italian]

A miniature Breviary from the 15th C. including sermons and readings, on 2 Luke: "sermo euangelicus qui praecedit narrat qualiter dominus centurionis puerem obentu magnae eius fiidei sanauerit, et quomodo ipsius centurionis, immoin eo gentium, extulerit fidem."Also "Eternus arque invsibilis rerum conditor, humanum genus quod per longa seculi cranseuntis sparia mortis perpetua."
Date: [1401..1500]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Manuscript Leaf 12th Century, France] (open access)

[Manuscript Leaf 12th Century, France]

A previously bound leaf approximately 12th-century.Text from a Lectionary (?) with text from the Life of Saint Gregory of Spoleto. The words Gregory and martyr appear in red ink. Late romanesque book hand. Seven line initial "T" in yellow on a blue background outlined in red, with a small winged dragon. Recovered from a bookbinding.
Date: 1150~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Manuscript Leaf 14th Century, Italy] (open access)

[Manuscript Leaf 14th Century, Italy]

A leaf from bookbinding recovered and repaired from Italy, ca. 1300. Displays 2 columns, with marginal glosses. Includes text from Justinian's Digesta. Repaired with vellum at an unknown date.
Date: 1300
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library