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Americae pars quinta / nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni [sic] Mediolanensis secundae sectionis Hispaniorum, tum in Nigrittas seruos suos, tum in Indos crudelitatem, Gallorumq[ue] pirataru[m] de Hispanis toties reportata spolia; aduentu[m] item Hispanoru[m] in Nouam Indiae continentis Hispaniam, eorumq[ue] contra incolas eius regionis saeuitiam explicans. Addita ad singula fere capita scholia, in quibus res Indiae luculenter exponuntur. Accessit praeterea tabula chorographica Nouae Hispaniae in India Occidentali. Ad inuistis Rudolph. II. Rom. Imp. Aug. omnia elegantibus figuris in aes incisis expressa à Theodoro de Bry Leod. cive Franc. A[nno] M D XCV.

Benzoni, Girolamo, 1519-1572?

[Frankfurt am Main : Theodor de Bry, 1595]

PML 3795.2

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Document signed : Madrid, 1820 Oct. 9.

Fernando VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833.

1820 Oct. 9.

MA 4348 (106)

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Restoration of J. Pierpont Morgan's Library: Overview

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Incipit officium misse.

PML 27006

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

[Orationes].

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

PML 299

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

A history of the English-speaking peoples / by Winston S. Churchill.

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.

London : Cassell & Co., Ltd., 1956.

PML 151209-12

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Four Evangelists single leaf montage.

Created

Rome, Italy, 1572-1585.

Accession number

MS M.270

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Inferno, Canto III. Charon Portrayed Shipping the Damned through the Acheron, Seen as a Circular Lake with the Entrance to the First Circle in the Middle. Dante and Virgil Looking at the Damned Who Are Being Attacked by Hornets and Wasps; Pointing to the Entrance; Approaching the Ferry; Speaking to Charon; Boarding the Ferry; and on the Ferry. At top a town?

Attributed to Alessandro Vellutello

early 16th century

1966.12:4

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Purgatorio, Canti IX-X: Section of the Mountain, with Sun on the Right and Half Moon to the Left; Lucia Carries the Sleeping Dante Up to the Next Rim of the Mountain; Dante Kneels Before the Angel-Gatekeeper, Who Guards the Door of Purgatory; Penitential Climb Through a Narrow Cleft in the Rock to Arrive Where the Mountain Falls Back to the Open Above

Attributed to Alessandro Vellutello

early 16th century

1966.12:13

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Collection in Focus: Ouida's "A Dog of Flanders"

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