Manuscripts

Votive offerings in clay pottery: photograph

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Description: This is a photograph of "votive offerings in clay pottery ("milagros") in the (Antiquarian) archaeological museum Corinth - Artifacts from Temple of Aesculapius" (from note on verso of frame). Photographer was John Connor. These offerings were given to Asklepios, the Greek god of medicine and of healing. The offerings are in the form of body parts (arms, feet, etc.).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: before 1965.
Call number: mssHM 80416
Provenance: On long-term loan from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.
Dimensions: 13 x 19 cm :
Associated organization: Los Angeles County Medical Association,
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Babylonian clay cone

Manuscripts

A votive cone with the inscription in Sumerian recording the building of the temple E-Ninnu, the shrine for the warrior god Ninĝirsu (Ninurta), in the city of Girsu in Southern Mesopotamia. It was built by King Gudeau of Lagash. Box 2 contains an older case used prior to April 1989.

mssHM 84355

Missal, Sarum use, and selections from votive masses and sequences : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

Part 1. ff. i r-v, 1-204v [Missal, Sarum use]: f. i r-v: votive masses [added in late 15th c.]; ff. 1-6v: graded calendar; ff. 7-90v: temporale (Advent-Easter Eve); ff. 91-93v: prefaces (2 with notation); ff. 94-96v: canon of the mass, lacking the Crucifixion miniature; ff. 96v-145v: temporale (Easter through 25th Sunday after Pentecost); ff. 145v-188: sanctorale; ff. 188-204v: common of saints. Part 2. ff. 205-212v: [Votive masses; quire added from another book, early 15th c., beginning defectively; the complete masses are pro quacumque tribulacione (2 sets); contra aereas potestates; pro infirmo; pro benefactoribus vel pro salute minorum; pro specialibus amicis; pro defunctis (many sets); orationes generales pro vivis et defunctis; Gloria, with 6 inset phrases mainly referring to the Virgin]. Part 3. ff. 213-215v: [Votive masses; quire added from another book, late 15th c.]: f. 213: the Mass for St. Gregory's Trental, collect, secret and postcommunion only; ff. 213v-215a: Masses with full office of Anne and Anthony abbot; f. 215b: Mass pro mortalitate evitanda, introit, ""Recordare,"" through part of the lection from Luke. Part 4: ff. 216-222v. [Sequences; quire added from another book, mid-15th c.]: 32 sequences from the first Sunday of Advent, ending defectively in the Purification; one leaf missing after f. 216, with loss of text from the end of the sequence for Stephen through the beginning of the sequence for the Circumcision.

mssHM 19918

Galloway & Graff, Market Street pottery

Visual Materials

Image of a single-fold leaflet advertising Galloway & Graff pottery at the International Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876; exterior eye-level view of the Horticultural Hall exhibition building on leaflet cover; numbered illustrations of pottery products with dimensions throughout, including terra cotta vases, fountains, figures, and garden edging.

priJLC_FAIR_004528

San Juan Pottery-maker

Visual Materials

A woman standing in front of an adobe house with pottery vessels on the ground in front of her.

photCL 313

Prof. B. W. Putnam illustrated lecture on pottery

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for a lecture on pottery given by Professor Benjamin W. Putman; center portrait of the professor framed by an elaborate border of vases from a variety of time periods and cultures; vignettes of vases being made by a thrower and moulder at top left and right; lecture scene in bottom center.

priJLC_EDU_003844

Art Craft Clays by AMACO

Visual Materials

One flyer entitled Art Craft Clays by AMACO, published by American Art Clay Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, ca. 1935. This leaflet is a promotional piece for AMACO clays and products including AMACO clay flour and moist clay; Permoplast modeling clay; Marblex; and Mexican Pottery Clay. The last page of this 8-page advertisement is a list of products and prices. The leaflet is printed in blue and black inks, and is illustrated. The brochure is a single sheet, folded into fourths to create an 8-page pamphlet.

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