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[Biblia Pauperum; Apocalypsis]

Photographs of "Biblia Pauperum; Apocalypsis," held by UNT Special Collections. The first is of the cover of the white book and the title at the top in black Latin script, the first letter of each word red. On top of it is a brown paper with a illustration in a red circle of a woman, Latin wording is around the rim of the circle and snaking over the woman. The second image is an illustrious of horses. In these two pages, there are three drawings of horses: blue, red and black. On each horse is a woman riding it, with small paragraphs of Latin text by them. There are several other drawings of thing such as swords. The third image is an illustration of creatures. At the top of each page is a woman with blue wings. On one side she is holding a collar attached to a creature, and pushing another creature into the gaping mouth of a monster. On the bottom left page six women ride a horse. The text of "Biblia pauperum" consists of selections from the Book of Revelation. Stories of the Apocalypse often recount visions said to be revealed by a heavenly messenger or angel …
Date: December 5, 2017
Creator: Sylve, Joshua & Merrill, Jeffery
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Liber Bestiarum: Ms Bodley 764. London: Folio Society, 2008]

Photographs of "Liber Bestiarum," held by UNT Special Collections. The first is of two pages in the open book, the one on the left contains a colorful illustration of birds on a tree with flowers. Under it is medieval script with the first letter of the paragraph a giant blue P. The page on the right contains the same medieval script. Towards the bottom is a paragraph with the first letter being a big red A. The second photo is of the cover of "Liber Bestiarum." The cover is bright red, the spine containing four different boxes of illustrations along the spine of animals. The front of the cover contains the book title in gold script Above and bellow it blue and red illustrations of animals. This is a facsimile of the manuscript from the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England and has 135 illustrated depictions of animals, including birds, reptiles, and fish. Bestiaries are manuscripts about animals, including real and imaginary illustrated depictions revealing a moral lesson. Bestiaries originated in the Ancient world but reached their height of popularity during the Medieval Period.
Date: November 27, 2017
Creator: Sylve, Joshua & Merrill, Jeffery
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Manassæ Oratio, Esdræ lib, III & IV. Cum indice Bibliorum triplici

3D scanned models of a miniature religious book. Bound in full contemporary red morocco, gilt tripple rule outer and inner rectangle, partly pointille corner fleurons. Front lettered "Au Capucins de"; back lettered "Pontoise". Spine with 5 compartments, 4 with stars within borders, fifth contains title "ORAT MAN".
Date: 2016
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Officium B. Mariae

3D scanned model of the miniature book: Miniature Book of Hours. Bound in full black leather, decorative gilt rule borders on covers, same rules dividing spine into 3 compartments. With metal and leather clasp.
Date: 2016
Creator: Catholic Church
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Writing and heraldry underneath pins and discs on a harp's neck]

Photograph of writing underneath pins and discs on a harp's neck. The top line of text says "Sebastian Eraro's" while the second line reads "Patent," followed by a glyph, and "4996." The third line says "18. Great Marlborough Street London. To the left of the lines of text is the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, made up by a crowned crest flanked by a lion and a unicorn, below which is a ribbon of paper that has upon it the latin words "dieu et mon driot." This harp is one of multiple restored historical harps donated to UNT by David Williams.
Date: 2014-09~
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ere e eme: pronunciamento miniaturo del importo profundissimo para los MCMLXXXs. (open access)

Ere e eme: pronunciamento miniaturo del importo profundissimo para los MCMLXXXs.

Spoof of Latin and Spanish text in ornate calligraphy. The text is not in correct Latin or Spanish, but intended to "look" like it.
Date: 1983
Creator: Massmann, Robert E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Millionth volume added to Willis Library]

Photograph of a page from the millionth volume to be added to the NTSU Library. The page is worn around the edges and on it are illuminations and a song in Latin with the notes above the words. At the top of the page is an inscription that reads "S. Benedicti M. V." and on the back of the print is a handwritten note that reads "A. M. Willis, Jr. Library Library's 1,000,000th volume".
Date: September 1974
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manuscript leaf from a liturgical work of ca.1300-1600. (open access)

Manuscript leaf from a liturgical work of ca.1300-1600.

Vellum/parchment leaf with Latin(?) writing on both sides. Recto includes square illumination of Mary holding the Christ Child.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manuscript leaf from an antiphonal. (open access)

Manuscript leaf from an antiphonal.

Vellum/parchment leaf with writing and muscial notation on both sides.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Manuscript leaf of music] (open access)

[Manuscript leaf of music]

Vellum/parchment with Latin writing (mostly red ink) and musical notation (in black ink) on both sides. Probably a modern creation.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manuscript leaf of music. (open access)

Manuscript leaf of music.

Vellum / parchment leaf with writing on both sides. The text is in Latin, in black, with occasional red letters. It includes sections of musical notation (5-line staff notation, square dots used for the notes). Recto with 12 full lines of text, 3 partial lines of text and one partial line of music, and one line of music. Verso with two lines of music, one partial line of music (out to side on left), and 12 lines of text.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Die Neüwen Inseln so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem Landt Indie ligen

Hand-drawn color map of the New World with place names in Latin, title in German. This is the earliest known map of the Americas. Drawings depict Magellan's ship Victoria and a cannibal scene in Brazil.
Date: unknown
Creator: Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552
Object Type: Map
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

[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

Regni Mexicani seu Novæ Hispaniæ, Ludovicianæ, N. Angliæ, Carolinæ, Virginiæ et Pensylvaniæ, necnon insvlarvm archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali

Hand drawn map of North America with geographical landmarks and place names in Latin. Map decorated with drawings of ships.
Date: 1759~/1784~
Creator: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Europa, secundum legitimas projectionis stereographic︠a︡e regulas et juxta recentissimas observationes ︠a︡eque ac relationes adhibitis qvoq[ue] veterum monumentorum subsidiis

Hand-drawn, color map of Europe as of 1743 with place names, geopolitical borders and some topographical features. Boundaries and features are noted, with relief shown pictorially.
Date: 1743
Creator: Hase, Johann Matthias, 1684-1742
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Etcing and engraving "Puer parvulus minabiteos"]

French religious etching and engraving titled "Puer Parvulus Minabiteos" (The Boy Threatened Them), which depictsa woman and three children in a field with a herd of wolfs, lions, and tigers among sheep and cattle. The main child, the baby Jesus, appears with a shepherds crook leading the flock.
Date: [1695..1800]
Creator: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714 & Lacroix, S. F. (Silvestre François), 1765-1843
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

{{Jeane Dixon Collection}} UNTA_AR0850-001-01-004

Engraving print for the title page of a printing of the classical Iconies Variae circa 1675. The plate was designed, engraved and published by Flemish printer Jan Galle (1600-1675). Text includes both Greek and Latin.
Date: 1675
Creator: Galle, Jan; Galle, Jan & Galle, Jan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

America noviter delineata

Map of North and South America showing political boundaries and place names. Includes inset of Greenland and illustrations of ships and sea monsters.
Date: 1633
Creator: Merian, Matthaeus
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hispania nova

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro.
Date: 1597
Creator: Wytfliet, Cornille
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Engraving portrait of Johann Von Schonenburgh]

Engraved portrait of German Catholic Archbishop Johann Von Schonenburgh, circa 1500-1600. The plate has the portrait framed by ornate scroll work including the face of a cherub, pears and ribbons. The description directly under the portrait reads "Religion and Wisdom".
Date: [1500..1600]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Haebler Incunabula Plate 1] (open access)

[Haebler Incunabula Plate 1]

Plate 1 - Antwerp, Gerard Leeu, 1491, Type 5, 8
Date: 1491
Creator: Leeu, Gerard & Haebler, Konrad
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Haebler Incunabula Plate 30] (open access)

[Haebler Incunabula Plate 30]

Plate 30 - Paris, Ulrich Gering, 1478, Type 5
Date: 1478
Creator: Gering, Ulrich & Haebler, Konrad
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Book of Hours Pentecostal Illumination from the 15th Century, Bruges (Belgium)] (open access)

[Book of Hours Pentecostal Illumination from the 15th Century, Bruges (Belgium)]

A leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, with a full-page illumination of Pentecost (Bruges, ca. 1460). The illustration is enclosed by a wide and ornate bar frame in pink and blue with gold tracery, the frame outlined in burnished gold with floral cornerpieces in colors and gold, the whole within a full floral border filled with blue, pink, and red flowers, with blue and gold acanthus leaves and green buds and leaves as well as many tiny burnished gold dots. The Virgin and the Apostles gathered in a large room with much architectural detail--blue, green, and gold columns, gray stone walls, mullioned windows, vaulted blue and red ceilings, and an intricately detailed blue and pink tiled floor, as golden rays of light shine through an open window.
Date: 1460
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library