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Babylonian clay cone

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 2300 B.C.
Call number: mssHM 84355
Provenance: Acquired from Mrs. Mary Dickinson Estate, May 1953.
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Votive offerings in clay pottery: photograph

Manuscripts

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.).

mssHM 80416

Shadow photograph of wind tunnel test results, showing air stream from a 30-degree cone head

Manuscripts

Shadow photograph of wind tunnel test results, showing air stream off 30 degree cone head, Ballistics Research Laboratory. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "APG Huntington Library Collection."

mssHUB 1044 (10)

Shadow photograph of wind tunnel test results, showing the air stream from a 30-degree cone head model

Manuscripts

Wind tunnel test results, showing air stream off 30 degree cone head model, Ballistics Research Laboratory. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "Huntington Library."

mssHUB 1044 (11)

Clay Modeling in the School Room

Visual Materials

One art instruction book entitled Clay Modeling in the School Room, by Ellen Stephens Hildreth, published by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Massachusetts, copyright 1892. The book is an instructional guide for teachers, meant for use in kindergarten and primary school classrooms and is 76 pages in length. It provides general instructions for clay modeling, and features simple to more complex creations using solid forms of clay. The front cover is decorated and illustrated, with an image of a young boy creating a large clay vase. The back cover continues some of the design elements of the front cover, and features an image of a helmeted Roman figure (head and shoulders only). The book is divided into seven series: sphere, oblate spheroid, prolate speroid, ovoid, cone, cylinder and cube; each illustrated with line drawings and includes suggested items and directions for modeling. On the final page is a publisher's advertisement for "Books for Teachers published by the Milton Bradley Company". "5-" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, on the upper right-hand corner of the title page.

ephKAEE

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

Blue Jeans : will never wear out : written by Joseph Arthur author of "The still alarm."

Visual Materials

Image of a younger woman being escorted out of a doorway in the home of an older couple, while an old woman reaches out and an old man stands on a chair holding a framed picture on the wall, with a sign above the door that reads "God Bless Our Home"; the poster advertises the melodrama "Blue Jeans" written by Joseph Arthur.

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