[Collection of Travel Maps]

Nine maps depicting the travels of the author to accompany his journals. The first map shows routes through parts of the Middle East and Asia with references to the Orenburgh Expedition. The second map shows routes in Northern Europe and parts of Russia, including towns in Prussia, Germany, and the Netherlands. The third map shows various portions of the Volga River in four separate, overlapping insets with nearby towns noted. The fourth map shows an area around the Eastern Ocean including present-day Saudi Arabia and India; regions and towns are noted as well as geographic features (with relief shown pictorially). The fifth map shows land around the Caspian Sea including routes of the Russian Embassy, towns, and geographic features (with relief shown pictorially). The sixth map shows a portion of Russia depicting the Orenburgh Expedition as well as towns, landmarks, and geographic features which are marked pictorially. The seventh map shows the Caspian Sea with surrounding regions and geographic features (with relief marked pictorially). The eighth map shows Europe and some surrounding areas including routes taken by the Russia Company, cities, and geographic features. The final (ninth) map is of Siberia and bordering areas; regions and landmarks are noted as …
Date: 1762
Creator: Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Manuscript Leaf 15th Century, Northern Netherlands] (open access)

[Manuscript Leaf 15th Century, Northern Netherlands]

15th-century Book of Hours originating from the Nothern Netherlands [Utrecht], ca. 1430s. Dutch text from the Long Hours of the Cross displayed in single column, 19 lines, gothic book hand. Rubrics in red, capitals struck with red, eight one-line initials in red or blue, verso with one three-line initial in burnished gold embellished with red penwork and extensions' full border composed of a vertical bar border of burnished gold and blue with white tracery, the bars with hairline stems emanating from each end and spreading across the top and bottom and along the fore-edge margin, these vines bearing burnished gold trefoils, delicate daisies, and pink and green buds, with the text opened by a 10-line initial "H" in highly burnished gold on a pink and blue ground with white tracery, in the center of the initial a draped flowering vine.
Date: [1430..1439]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Small Prayer Book Leaf from the 15th Century, Netherlands] (open access)

[Small Prayer Book Leaf from the 15th Century, Netherlands]

Leaf form a small prayer book from the 15th century in Old Dutch with text displayed in single column, late gothic script. The leaf in this item contains prayers to Christ who as "gheboren vander maget Marien" and also the prayer beginning "So wie dit gebet spreket heuet benedictus die xii."
Date: [1401..1500]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Leaf from Miniature Prayer Book, 15th Century, Netherlands] (open access)

[Leaf from Miniature Prayer Book, 15th Century, Netherlands]

Leaf from a miniature prayer book in Old Dutch (The Netherlands, 15th-century). Text appears in a single column, late gothic script. The present leaf contains prayers for the "Heilige Jonc frauwen" Saint Gertrude and Saint Margaret. Note the scribe misspelled the girl's name as "Gertgtruyt" to which he/she/they made an unobtrusive correction. This item is unique in its collection, of the 37 leaves from this acquisition made in 2018, this is the only one on paper.
Date: [1401..1500]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Leaf from an Unadorned Book of Hours 15th Century, Netherlands?] (open access)

[Leaf from an Unadorned Book of Hours 15th Century, Netherlands?]

Leaf from an unadorned miniature Book of Hours, in Latin, with specific prayers for Lauds which take place in the early morning hours. Text is displayed in a single column of late gothic script. Prayers invoke the Virgin Mary.
Date: [1401..1500]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Liturgical Calendar Leaf from a Book of Hours 14th Century, France or the Netherlands?] (open access)

[Liturgical Calendar Leaf from a Book of Hours 14th Century, France or the Netherlands?]

A leaf displaying the month of November from a liturgical calendar within a Latin Book of Hours. The text indicates so-called "Red Letter" days. This particular Book of Hours was designated use of Sarum (i.e. Salisbury Cathedral) and was bound in France or The Netherlands in the 14th-century most likely for the English Market. Of particular interest is the appearance of "Euduardi Regis" referencing King Edward the III of England [1312-1377].
Date: [1301..1400]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library