Figures. Illustrations.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Illustrations, diagrams, etc. that are printed along with the text of a book for the purpose of clarifying or illustrating the text of a book.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
'Geschlecht Buch dess Heiligen Reichs Stat Nürnberg Darinen alle alte und neue Adeliche Geschlecht daraus der Rath von 300 Jaren hero erwöhlth wordn Hierin zusamgebracht Anno 1610’, being histories, in different hands, of Nürnberg families.
File
Identifier: MS.3708
Scope and Contents
Each history is preceded by an engraving of a figure with the arms of the family.
Dates:
1610.
Papers of Frank Whyte, civil engineer, including notebooks, watercolours and letters, with educational certificates of his sister, Mary Whyte, teacher.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14564/1-18
Dates:
1910-1967
Poems of George Algernon Fothergill inspired by Robert Burns.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14570
Scope and Contents
The poems covers observations on Burns Nights, as well as on whisky and haggis.
Fothergill noted that he resided at the Craigiehall Estate, just outside Edinburgh, when he wrote all but three of the poems. This view appears repeatedly throughout the volume.
Dates:
1911-1927.
‘Συναγωγή’ iii-vi, viii, by Pappus of Alexandria.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.1.3
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was probably written in Italy in the mid-16th century. One scribe wrote from the beginning to folio 94 verso, line 26; another from there to the end. The latter writes a more upright hand, with fewer ligatures, than the former. According to A P Treweek in `The Manuscript Tradition of the Collectio Mathematica’, 195, and what follows, the first scribe, possibly Camillus Venetus, also wrote Naples, Bibl. Naz.IIIc14 and Chicago, Newberry Libr.MS. 110, and copied this...
Dates:
Mid 16th century.