EditorialThe poor and the sick are spoken, Parallel title: The poor and sick Job, Signed: G. D. He?man sculps, copperplate, plate DVIII, F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Heumann, Georg Daniel (sculps.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Kupfer-Bibel (...). Augspurg und Ul...
EditorialYorkshire lyrics : poems written in the dialect as spoken in the west riding of Yorkshire, to which are added a selection of fugitive verses not in the dialect : Hartley, John, 1839-.
EditorialTitle page of a translation of the epsitle of St. Paul, from New Testament. Yoruba is a language spoken in West Africa mainly in Nigeria. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans. Translated into Yoruba ... by the Rev. Samuel Crowther. London : C....
Editorial‘Paramahamsa’, a naked ascetic, usually a Saiva. (Inscription: ‘Likeness of Lomi (?) Saddah, a citizen of Mathura who, sitting beside the pool of Raja Phatte Mal, has not spoken for fifteen years. Kaum (i.e. caste) Paramahamsa’). Tashrih al-aqv...
EditorialCuneiform tablet: Old Babylonian balag to the mother goddess Aruru, Old Babylonian, ca. 19th?16th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Babylonian, Clay, 3 7/8 x 1 7/8 x 1 1/8 in. (10 x 4.9 x 2.7 cm), Clay-Tablets-Inscribed, Liturgical compositions were used in M...
EditorialLetter of Michelangelo. Autograph Letters from Michelangelo Buonarroti to. Italy [Rome]; 1512. [Whole folio] Autograph letter of Michelangelo to his father Ludovico, in Florence, defending hmself for having spoken ill of the Medici, who had just been r...
Editorial‘Paramahamsa’, a naked ascetic, usually a Saiva. (Inscription: ‘Likeness of Lomi (?) Saddah, a citizen of Mathura who, sitting beside the pool of Raja Phatte Mal, has not spoken for fifteen years. Kaum (i.e. caste) Paramahamsa’). Tashrih al-aqv...
EditorialTitle page of a translation of the epsitle of St. Paul, from New Testament. Yoruba is a language spoken in West Africa mainly in Nigeria. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans. Translated into Yoruba ... by the Rev. Samuel Crowther. London : C....
EditorialA young girl, named Flora at a tea party, being spoken to by another girl, dressed as a queen. Speaking Likenesses ... With pictures thereof by A. Hughes. London, 1874. Source: 12803.g.34 pages 24 - 25.
EditorialMadame Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (Anne Antoinette Desmoulins, 1743?1817), late 1780s, Oil on wood, 25 1/4 x 21 in. (64.1 x 53.3 cm), Paintings, Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725?1805 Paris), Anne Antoinette Desmoulins, born in Paris in 1743 marrie...
EditorialCuneiform tablet: Old Babylonian balag to the mother goddess Aruru, Old Babylonian, ca. 19th?16th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Babylonian, Clay, 3 7/8 x 1 7/8 x 1 1/8 in. (10 x 4.9 x 2.7 cm), Clay-Tablets-Inscribed, Liturgical compositions were used in M...
EditorialDjed pillar amulet, Third Intermediate Period?Ptolemaic Period, 1086?30 B.C., From Egypt, Faience, H. 3.2 ? W. 1 ? D. 0.6 cm (1 1/4 ? 3/8 ? 1/4 in.), Amulets were thought to magically transfer their power to the wearer. Such power often derived from th...
EditorialSyria. Ma?loula. Town built into the rugged mountainside. Village where Western Aramaic is still spoken. Near East. Photo before Syrian Civil War.
EditorialStone bust of Quetzalcoatl, Aztec, from Mexico, 1325-1521. This sculpture represents the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. His name in Nahuatl, the language spoken by the Aztecs, means Feathered (quetzal feather) Serpent. The serpent's coils of the sculpture are...
EditorialA scene from the legend of Gazi, riding a tiger. One of the 57 registers of a scroll-painting telling the story of a local Bengali pir or Muslim saint who fought demons, overpowered dangerous animals and had power over tigers, abilities important to se...