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L'America Settentrionale

This map shows Central America, the southern portion of North America, and the surrounding areas. Regions are outlined and shaded in various colors. Some bodies of water and geographic features are marked pictorially. There is also a color illustration of several people in the upper left corner with the title.
Date: 1690?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

A generall [sic.] chart of the South Sea from the River of Plate to Dampiers Streights on ye coast of New Guinea

Map shows islands islands in the "South Sea" and partial eastern coast lines of land forms including New Guinea and Japan; lower portion of North America including the eastern coast as far north as New England, the islands of the Caribbean, Central America, and all but the eastern portion of South America. California shown as an island. Includes cartouche and one historical note of discovery for "Staten Land" in the South Sea. Scale not given.
Date: [1690..1710]
Creator: Keating, Christopher
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Carte particuliére de l'Amerique Septentrionale : ou sont compris le destroit de Davids, le destroit de Hudson, &c

Map shows Iceland, Greenland, and the North Atlantic coast of North America including "Baffins Bay" and Hudson Bay. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1693..1700]
Creator: Mortier, Pieter
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

A map of a large country newly discovered in the Northern America situated between New Mexico and the frozen sea : together with the course of the great river Meschasipi.

Map shows areas of Native American habitation, some settlements. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:11,500,00].
Date: 1698
Creator: Hennepin, Louis, 17th cent.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

'T Amerikaans Gewest van Florida : Door Ferdinand De Soto Nader Ontdekt en groot deels Bemagtigt ; La Floride, Grand Paÿs de l'Amerique Septentrionale, plus avant decouverte et presque toute conquise par Ferdinand de Soto en 1534, tirée de ses Mémoires, et de tous ceux qui ont paru jusqu à present.

Map shows the extent of Spanish Florida with settlements encompassing majority of southeastern portion of the North American continent. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1696
Creator: Aa, Pieter van der, 1530-1594
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Il martirio: dramma sacro per musica

Libretto for Il martirio di S. Adriano. Grove Music Online and similar items in WorldCat point to authorship by Girolamo Gigli for a composition by Giuseppe Fabrini, circa 1690.
Date: 1690~
Creator: Gigli, Girolamo, 1660-1722
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Givditta: drama sacra

Libretto for Giuditta. The preface is dated May 10, 1697. Gigli is identified here under the name Amaranto Sciaditico.
Date: 1697
Creator: Gigli, Girolamo, 1660-1722
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bust of the Painter Pierre Mignard (1612-95)

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Total from front center
Date: 1695
Creator: DESJARDINS, Martin (Martin van den Bogaert, called
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library
Astrée (open access)

Astrée

Libretto of the 1691 opera "Astrée" by Jean de la Fontaine. Pascal Collasse composed the music of the opera which premiered under the title "Astrée et Céladon" on November 25, 1692.
Date: 1691
Creator: La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enée et Lavinie (open access)

Enée et Lavinie

Libretto of the opera "Enée et Lavinie" by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle. Pascal Collasse composed the music of the opera which premiered on November 7, 1690. The plot, which Bovier de Fontenelle adapted from Virgil's "Aeneid, Book vii," revolves around the marriage of Enée (i.e., Aeneas) to the Latin bride Lavinia.
Date: 1690
Creator: Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

L'Amerique meridionale et septentrionale : dressée selon les dernieres relations et suivant les nouvelles decouvertes dont les points principaux sont placez sur les observations de Mss. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences.

Map shows late seventeenth century geography, cities, political borders, and points of interest in North America, South America, and parts of England and France. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:29,000,000].
Date: 1699
Creator: Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Planisfero del mondo nuovo.

Map shows known geography and place names in the Western Hemisphere. Includes "Tavola di clavio nella sfera del sacrobosco." Scale varies.
Date: 1695
Creator: Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae.

Map shows known geography and place names of late seventeenth century North America and South America. Relief shown pictorially. No scale indicated.
Date: 1690?
Creator: Schagen, Gerard A.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fabrication Cots for Plutonium Fuel Elements Part A: Variable Costs of Fabrication UO2-PuO2 Fuel Rods for the Plutonium Recycle Critical Facility (open access)

Fabrication Cots for Plutonium Fuel Elements Part A: Variable Costs of Fabrication UO2-PuO2 Fuel Rods for the Plutonium Recycle Critical Facility

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Date: September 1, 1695
Creator: Bloomster, C. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Historische Beschreibung der edelen Sing- und Klingkunst, in welcher deroselben Ursprung und Erfindung, Fortgang, Verbesserung, unterschiedlicher Gebrauch, wunderbare Würckungen, mancherley Feinde

Und zugleich berühmteste ausüber von Anfang der Welt biss auff unsere Zeit in möglichster Kürtze erzehlet und vorgestellet werden, aus denen vornehmsten Autorobus abgefasset und in Ordnung gebracht von Wolfgang Caspar Printzen, von Waldthurn.
Date: 1690
Creator: Printz, Wolfgang Caspar, 1641-1717
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Man swinging an axe at a snake while his wife jumps back in surprise]

Etching and engraving print of a man swinging an axe at a snake. The man appears to be protecting his wife and child who sit in front of a large open hearth. The wife reacts in surprise and fear in the midst of cooking dinner with the child in her lap. This print has a unique ghost image on its verso of a woman dressed in French style fashion with a large wig embellished with feathers.
Date: [1695..1800]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

["The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; "Burdock refiting the surgeon's attempt to trepan him."]

Etching and engraving print from page 216 of Charles Grignion I's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; "Burdock refiting the surgeon's attempt to trepan him.". The print includes an oval framing the scene with characteristic flourishes of ivy vines surrounding a plaque with the title information. The main figure in the image appears standing on his bed angrily confronting a flustered doctor to a room of terrified onlookers. The print was part of a copy of the picaresque novel "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" by Tobias Smollett.
Date: [1695..1800]
Creator: Grignion, Charles the Elder
Object Type: Artwork
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
Amore fra' gl'impossibili (open access)

Amore fra' gl'impossibili

According to Grove Music, Gigli's 'Amore fra gli impossibili' is an eccentric work where "the pastoral setting is disturbed by mythological references and the addition of the characters Don Chisciotte and Coriandolo, in an ironic and grotesque atmosphere."
Date: 1693
Creator: Gigli, Girolamo, 1660-1722 & Campelli, Carlo
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Great Elector, Friedrich Wilhelm (Der Grosse Kurfürst). Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg

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overall view from right center
Date: 1696/1709
Creator: SCHLÜTER, Andreas
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Great Elector, Friedrich Wilhelm (Der Grosse Kurfürst). Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg

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overall view from left
Date: 1696/1709
Creator: SCHLÜTER, Andreas
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Great Elector, Friedrich Wilhelm (Der Grosse Kurfürst). Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg

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figures at base
Date: 1696/1709
Creator: SCHLÜTER, Andreas
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Great Elector, Friedrich Wilhelm (Der Grosse Kurfürst). Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg

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the Elector on his horse
Date: 1696/1709
Creator: SCHLÜTER, Andreas
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Great Elector, Friedrich Wilhelm (Der Grosse Kurfürst). Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
detail of figure at base
Date: 1696/1709
Creator: SCHLÜTER, Andreas
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library