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Jet gemstone inscribed with a seal translated to "Rely on God" or "Ali trusts in God" (translated by The MET). Seals inscribed in stone or other materials were often placed on rings and used as signatures or talismans for the protection of the owner…

A Silver and Lapis-Lazuli seal ring. Seal rings or signet rings are rings engraved with text in reverse that were used to stamp text into seals like a signature and may have also "functioned as talismans used to protect their owners from harm" (The…

CBC article on the existence of "fatbergs" along Toronto's waterfront and what they can tel researchers about pollution in the area.

A woodcut engraving illustrated by William Harvey showing the scene "The Story of the Fisherman" for the 1912 book titled "The Thousand and One Nights: Commonly called, in England The Arabian Nights' Entertainments" by Edward William Lane. The…

The Last Supper, from a bishop’s benedictional made in Bavaria, Germany, ca. 1030–40.

The Hermann Composite begins with St. Jerome’s prologue on the Hosea. It contains a sizeable illuminated capital depicting abbot Hermann holding a book and crosier, his head partially surrounded by a nimbus and standing in an archway. Hermann is…

illuminations and illustrations on parchment leaves 12.5''h x 9.5''w.
f.159v - The end of the decorated chonology. (Fisher Library) Text in a gothic script with black ink (and red used for initials). Diagrams of family trees with linked circles…

illuminations and illustrations on parchment leaves 12.5''h x 9.5''w.
f.160v - The end of the contrast of prophets and apostles. (Fisher Library)
. Four miniatures in a rectangular grid of six inserts, the last two of which are blank, Each insert…

Illustrations on parchment leaves 12.5''h x 9.5''w.
f.161v-162r - The Illustrated Anticlaudianus continued. 12 miniature inserts in a square grid. (Fisher Library) Intended to be read in sequence, top down in three columns. (Newman 2003, 84)…

Illustrations on parchment leaves 12.5''h x 9.5''w.
162v: The illustrated Anticladianus sequence concludes with an alternate ending to Alan's original poem in which the perfect man is explicitly identified as Jesus. (Newman 2003, 84) 12 miniature…