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Papyrus of Taatemperamun

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Description: Eighteen-sheet papyrus containing the text of the Adoration of Osiris and spells from the Book of the Dead. Written for the woman Taatemperamun, who also had the title "head of household" and "singer of Amun-Re, king of the gods". Originated in Thebes during the Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21, (approximately 990-976 B.C.)
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Production date: Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21, (approximately 990-976 B.C.)
Call number: mssHM 84123
Provenance: Written for TꜢ-ʿꜢ.t-m-pr-I͗mn "Taatemperamun", nb.t pr "head of household," šmʿ.t n I͗mn-Rʿ ny-sw.t nṯr.w "singer of Amun-Re, king of the gods"; Alice and George Millard collection Illustrating the evolution of the book, acquired for the Huntington Library by a group of their friends in 1939.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Fragile. Cannot be paged, imaged or reproduced without conservator review. Use of original may require special handling instructions and extended retrieval and delivery time.

Papyrus of Paanfai

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Papyrus inscribed in hieratic and hieroglyphic script containing the Adoration of Osiris and magical spells. Written for "Paanfai", who also had the title: "priest of Amun-Re, king of the gods". Originated in Thebes during the Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21, (approximately 990-976 B.C.). Four sheets of papyri joined together, outside edges not visible under matting. Sheet 1: 9 cm visible from edge of matting to center of illustration. Sheet 2: 19.5 cm from center of illustration to column 1. Sheet 3: 20.5 cm from column 1 to column 2. Sheet 4: 16.5 cm visible from column 2 to edge of matting.

mssHM 46671

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The Seven Against Thebes : early draft of translation

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Manuscript holograph rough draft of a translation into English by Henry David Thoreau of "The Seven Against Thebes" by Aeschylus.

mssHM 13193

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An essay concerning toleration

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This autograph manuscript essay is entirely in the hand of John Locke; the one draft is 31 folios in length and the other is only 2 pages. This essay was prepared eighteen years before Locke's "Epistola de Tolerantia," and remained unpublished until Fox Bourne printed it in his "Life of John Locke" in 1876.

mssHM 584

Commentarii in Libros VIII Aristotelis de Physica, circa 1385

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Burley's book of commentaries on the eighth book of physics by Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) The volume is noteworthy for being written on paper rather than vellum, and features a classic Latin hand with seven major initials in gold and colors, and later comments in the borders. Numbered in modern hand in pencil on pages 36, 60, 95, 173, 197, 226. Renumbered in pencil on bottom page, outer corner prior to rebinding in 2022.

mssHM 75077

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Viaje a la Costa

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This manuscript diary by Juan Francisco de la Boedga y Caudra accounts his third voyage in the North West Pacific, from San Blas to Nootka in 1792. During this important voyage, Quadra was commissioned to define the boundaries of the British and Spanish territory on the Vancouver Island (B.C.). There is an extensive vocabulary of the Nootka dialect and a table of the ship's course found on two leaves that displays the meteorolocial conditions on the journeys.

mssHM 141

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Cuneiform tablet; inventory of grain

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This is an inventory of grain brought probably to the palace or temple. The first two lines give a brief ledger-like statement of this fact; also the date, what is probably April, at the 25th day, but the year is illegible. All the remaining lines contain the names of persons who bought the grain, each is checked at the beginning with a little sign. The cuneiform is probably from about 1200 B.C.; though there is a possibility that it is considerably later.

mssHM 82934

Papyrus of Taatemperamun

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