Treasures from UCL

Treasures from UCL /

"UCL has one of the foremost university Special Collections in the UK. It is a treasure trove of national and international importance, comprising over a million items dating from the 4th century ad to the present day. Treasures from UCL draws together detailed descriptions and images of 70 of...

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Author / Contributor: Furlong, Gillian (Author)
Corporate Author: University College, London
Imprint: London : UCL Press, 2015.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
University College, London. > Library. > Special Collections.
Libraries > Special collections.
Series:Open Access e-Books
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Illuminated Bible of the 13th or 14th century, Italy / Biblia Latina
  • 2. Jewish service book of the 13th or 14th century, Spain / Castilian Haggadah
  • 3.A beautiful Lectionarium, or reader, with fragments of two texts
  • 13th-century Lectionary
  • 4.A rare late medieval chemise binding
  • Passio Christi (`Passion of Christ') / Frederick Bearman
  • 5. Early edition of Rabanus Maurus's commentaries
  • Rabanus Maurus, De Sermonum proprietate, sive Opus de universo
  • 6. Genealogical roll chronicle of the kings of England, from a Yorkist
  • Chronicon genealagicum regum anglorum / David D'Avray
  • 7. Book of Hours from the late 15th century, adapted for the Victorian market
  • Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis
  • 8. Witch-hunting handbook with a Ben Jonson connection
  • Jakob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer Institoris, Malleus Maleficarum
  • 9. Part of Book V of Confessio Amantis (`The Lover's Confession')
  • John Gower, Confessio Amantis.
  • Note continued: 10.A guide to the good Christian life
  • Andrew Chertsey, The crafte to lyve well and to dye well
  • 11. Miles Coverdale and the genesis of the Bible in English
  • Miles Coverdale, Biblia: the Byble: that is the holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament / Paul Ayris
  • 12. The art of practising Judaism in the 16th century / Italian Mahzor
  • 13. Islamic art in the 15th century
  • Fragment of the Holy Qur'an
  • 14.A very rare medieval astronomical text
  • Johannes De Sacrobosco, Tractatus de Sphera and other tracts
  • 15. First printed edition of Euclid's Elements
  • Euclid of Megara, Elementa geometriae
  • 16. An early printed herbal
  • Anonymous, Herbarius latinus: Herbarium seu de virtutibus herbarum
  • 17.A very rare book of lunar tables
  • Bernat de Granollachs, Lunarium ab anno 1490 ad annum 1550. Summario de la luna
  • 18. The standard medieval manual of surgery
  • Guy de Chauliac, Cyrurgia [with other medical tracts].
  • Note continued: 19. First translation of Vitruvius's De Architectura in Italian
  • Cesare Cesariano (ed), Di Lucio Vitruvia Pollione De Architectura / Adrian Forty
  • 20. Medical treatises from the East
  • Haly Abbas [Ali ibn-al-'Abbas al Majusi], Liber totius medicine neessaria continens
  • 21. Battlefield surgery techiniques: a 16th-century self-help manual
  • Hans von Gersdorff, Feldtbuch der Wundartzney
  • 22. Copernicus
  • the first publication on a heliocentric universe
  • Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutienibus orbium coelestium
  • 23.A physician's handbook for the Elizabethan age
  • Pier Andrea Mattioli, Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscorides Anazarbei, de medica materia
  • 24. Second expanded edition of Vesalius's De Fabrica, the first book of scientific anatomy
  • Andreas Vesalius, De lumami corporis fabrica libri septam
  • 25. Fine early editions of Dante's La Divina Commedia
  • Comento di Christoforo Landino Fiorentino sopra La Commedia di Dante Alighieri.
  • Note continued: 26.A guide to the etiquette of courts and courtiers
  • Baldassarre Castiglione. Il Libro del cortegiano del conte Baldesar Castiglione
  • 27.A rare and unusual late Elizabethan commonplace hook
  • Thomas Trevelyon, manuscript, c. 1603
  • 28. Early mathematical treatise for artists' use
  • Albrecht Durer, Les quatres livres d'Albert Durer, peinctre and geometrien ... de la proportion des parties and pourctraits des corps humains
  • 29.A revolutionary discovery on the circulation of the blood
  • William Harvey, Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in amimalibus
  • 30. Views of the magnified world
  • Robert Hooke, Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses
  • Eleazar Albin, A natural history of spiders, and other curious Insects: illustrated with fifty-three copper plates, engraven by the best hands
  • 31. The greatest work on exact science.
  • Note continued: Sir Isaac Newton, Philosophise naturalis principia mathematica
  • 32.A 17th-century manual for mathematical calculations
  • Rechenbuch, auff der Feder, Johann Best Vater
  • 33. The ruins of Rome, seen through 18th-century eyes
  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Vedute di Roma. `View of the Flavian Amphitheatre known as the Colosseum'
  • 34. Breaking new ground: The Johnston-Lavis Collection
  • Athanasius Kircher, Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Mundus subterraneus in XII libros digestus / David Price
  • 35. Fiery fields
  • volcanoes as never seen before
  • Sir William Hamilton, ed Pietro Fabris, Campi Phlegraei, Observations on the volcanoes of the two Sicilies, as they have been communicated to the Royal Society
  • 36. Showpiece bindings for treasured texts
  • Solomon ben David de Oliveyra, Calendario facil y curiozo de las tablas lunares calculadas con las tablas solares Mir shams al-Din Faqir Dihlavi, Masnavi-i Akbar Sultan (`Romance of the Sultan Akbar').
  • Note continued: 37. Tortoiseshell binding of the 18th century
  • Orden de las oraciones cotidianas [`Order of the daily prayers'] / Frederick Bearman
  • 38.A very rare first edition of Paradise Lost
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost: a poem written in ten books
  • 39. The creation of Dr Johnson's Dictionary
  • Samuel Johnson, The plan of a dictionary of the English language and A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, explained in their different meanings ... The third edition, carefully revised
  • 40. Designs for a panopticon prison by Jeremy Bentham
  • Section of an Inspection House; Plan of Houses of Inspection: Section Plan, c. 1791
  • 41. An unusual manuscript poem of Lord Byron
  • Samuel Rogers, The pleasures of memory: with other poems, with a handwritten poem by George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
  • 42.A musical note
  • Ludwig van Beethoven, handwritten note.
  • Note continued: 43. Art for medicine's sake: Carswell collection of drawings of pathological conditions
  • Sir Robert Carswell, Anaemia cured by the Carbonate of Iron and Heart with hydatid [cyst] in walls of left ventricle
  • 44. Illustrations by Edward Lear and `the Bird Man'
  • John Gould, FLS, A century of birds from the Himalaya Mountains and A monograph of the Ramphastidae: or family of toucans
  • 45. The cult of the autograph
  • and a Bloomsbury literary connection
  • Autograph book of Mary Talfourd, London, 1840s
  • 50s
  • 46. The first operation under ether in Europe
  • Robert Liston, Patient case register, University College Hospital
  • 47. The classic description of the struggle for life
  • Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, 1st edition, and manuscript drafts of On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man
  • 48. Paris literary and theatre life in the 1860s
  • Manuscript letters of Emile Zola.
  • Note continued: 49.A British entrepreneur in 19th-century South America
  • Jose Manuel Groot, Portrait of Joseph Brown / Nicola Miller
  • 50.A gallery fit for sculpture models
  • Decoration of the Flaxman Gallery, University College, Gower Street / Rosemary Ashton
  • 51. Pioneers in science and medical science who shaped 20th-century life
  • Sir Victor Horsley, physiologist and surgeon, First World War field operations notebook, Gallipoli
  • Sir William Ramsay, discoverer of argon, helium, krypton and other gases, laboratory notebook
  • Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the thermionic valve, laboratory notebook on telegraphy
  • Kathleen Lonsdale, crystallographer, letter to Dr Matheson, Governor of HMP Holloway
  • 52. An early supporter of women's rights
  • Leonora Tyson, ed, An Ariti-Suffrage Alphabet, The Women's Press
  • Frederick and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, eds, Votes for Women newspaper, Vol III
  • 53. Contemporary literature of the First World War.
  • Note continued: Francisco de Sancha y Longo [F Sandra], Aesop's Fables Up to Date
  • 54.A modern classic with notoriety
  • James Joyce, Ulysses, 1st edition, Shakespeare and Company
  • 55. Henry James and George Orwell
  • Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, The As pern Papers Mary Collins
  • 56. George Orwell
  • a timeless voice
  • George Orwell, literary notebook and National Union of Journalists membership card Rene Weis.

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