A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum, Bloomsbury: Departments of Printed Books, Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, Coins and Medals, Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Greek and Roman Antiquities, British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnographyorder of the Trustees, 1883 - 176 pages |
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... . Biblia Pauperum , or Bible of the Poor , once a popular manual of devotion , and supposed to be the earliest of the 2 [ GROUND DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS . Exhibited Books in the Grenville and King's Libraries Block-books.
... . Biblia Pauperum , or Bible of the Poor , once a popular manual of devotion , and supposed to be the earliest of the 2 [ GROUND DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS . Exhibited Books in the Grenville and King's Libraries Block-books.
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... and was in partnership with Fust , the rich goldsmith , who furnished the money for the enterprise . After the production of the Great Bible the partnership was dissolved , and then the names 4 [ GROUND DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS .
... and was in partnership with Fust , the rich goldsmith , who furnished the money for the enterprise . After the production of the Great Bible the partnership was dissolved , and then the names 4 [ GROUND DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS .
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... VIII . are shown specimens of the earliest pro- ductions of the Printing Press in England ; together with specimens of the books printed abroad by William Caxton , 6 [ GROUND DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS . Italy France England.
... VIII . are shown specimens of the earliest pro- ductions of the Printing Press in England ; together with specimens of the books printed abroad by William Caxton , 6 [ GROUND DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS . Italy France England.
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... . 1249 and 1404. Purchased in 1856 . In Case X. some of the Illuminations are very beautiful 8 [ GROUND DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS . Books Printed in England by William Caxton Specimens of Fine and Sumptuous Printing.
... . 1249 and 1404. Purchased in 1856 . In Case X. some of the Illuminations are very beautiful 8 [ GROUND DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS . Books Printed in England by William Caxton Specimens of Fine and Sumptuous Printing.
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... Defoe . Robinson Crusoe . London , April , 1719. - The first edition . Purchased in 1852 . Among the examples of Bookbinding contained in Cases XV . 10 [ GROUND DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS . Broadsides Typographical and Literary ...
... Defoe . Robinson Crusoe . London , April , 1719. - The first edition . Purchased in 1852 . Among the examples of Bookbinding contained in Cases XV . 10 [ GROUND DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS . Broadsides Typographical and Literary ...
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18th dynasty Akkadian amphora ancient antiquities Assur-banî-apli Assur-nasir-apli Assurbanipal Assyrian Athens Autotype Babylonia bas-reliefs Bequeathed bequest British Museum bronze bull bust casts Catalogue century chariot chiefly coffins Coins collection colossal colours Compartment cylinder deities edifice Egypt Egyptian engraved eponymy Esarhaddon Etruscan excavated exhibited female figure fragments frieze Full Face Gallery glass goddess Greek head hieroglyphs Ialysos inscribed inscription Kamiros King of Assyria King of Elam Kouyunjik Layard lion Lower Shelf Lycia male figure Manuscripts marble medals ment Middle Shelf monarch monuments mummies Nimroud objects ornaments Osiris painted palace period Phoenician placed Plates porcelain portion Portrait pottery principal Printed probably Profile Purchased Rassam reign Roman sarcophagus scene sculptures Sennacherib sepulchral shape side slabs specimens statue stone supposed Table Table-Case tablet containing temple terracotta Thebes Thomas Grenville Tiglath-pileser III tomb upper various vases vellum wall wooden
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Page 42 - Ionic peristylar building, with fourteen columns running round a solid cella, and statues in the intercolumniations, the whole elevated on a base, which stands upon two steps. This building has by some been considered a trophy in memory of the conquest of Lycia by the Persians under Harpagus, BC 545, though it was probably not erected till some time in the next century.
Page xi - An Act for the purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane and of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts, and for providing one general repository for the better reception and more convenient use of the said collections, and of the Cottonian Library, and of the additions thereto...
Page 35 - ... the great lines of trade in the Greek and Roman world. For practical purposes, the medallist and the art-workman will find this series the most profitable as well as the safest guide. The artist will not fail to perceive the suggestive value of designs which, however small, are essentially large in treatment.
Page 6 - The first book printed in Italic types, and the earliest attempt to produce cheap books by compressing the matter into a small space, and reducing the size of the page.
Page xii - Admissions to the galleries of antiquities and natural history were by tickets only, on application in writing, and were, in the first instance, limited to ten, for each of three hours in the day. Visitors were not allowed to inspect the cases at their leisure, but were conducted through the galleries by officers of the house. The hours of admission were subsequently extended, but it was not till the year 1810 that the Museum was freely accessible to the general public, for three days in the week,...
Page xvii - A collection of British Antiquities was commenced in 1851. It comprises " illustrations of the early history of the British Islands through its various " phases of Early British, Roman, and Saxon, lately enriched by the donation "from Canon Greenwell, of his very valuable collection of, early British " remains excavated from the barrows of England, and comprising about 200 " British urns and a number of relics found with them.
Page 34 - For the study of mythology these coins present the local conceptions of the gods and heroes worshipped in the Greek world, with their attributes and symbols. The historian will find a gallery of characteristic portraits of sovereigns, almost complete, from Alexander the Great to Augustus. The geographical student will be able to verify and correct the nomenclature of the classical writers as preserved to us in manuscripts.
Page 105 - ... plain with inscriptions cut upon them, or else covered with a layer of stucco, painted like the cartonages, in tempera. Sometimes there were three or more coffins fitting in one another, like a nest of boxes. The bodies of kings and persons of high rank or wealth were deposited in massive sarcophagi, or outer stone coffins of granite, basalt, alabaster, breccia, and other materials.
Page 91 - Amen-Ra; 2. Mentu; 3. Atum; 4. Shu and Tefnu; 5. Seb, 6. Osiris; 7. Set and Nephthys; 8. Horus and Athor. The gods of the second order were twelve in number, but the name of one only, an Egyptian Hercules, has been preserved. The third order is stated to have comprised Osiris, who, it will be seen, belonged to the first order.
Page 107 - The flat board has the goddess of the West, and on the interior of the vaulted cover the heaven is represented as a female extended at full length as if covering the mummy. At the sides of the heaven are representations of the twelve signs of the Greek Zodiac. The texts which accompany these coffins are formulas and dedications taken out of the later Ritual called the Shai en sin sin, or Book of respirations.