Category: Historical Reference
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Drawing & Engraving
A Brief Exposition of Technical Principles & Practice Philip Gilbert Hamilton 1892
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Arms and Armour
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ANILLUSTRATED HISTORYOFARMS AND ARMOUEFROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THEPRESENT TIME.BY AUGUSTE DEMMIN. WITH NEARLY 2000 ILLUSTRATIONS.TRANSLATED BY C. C. BLACK, M.A..ASSISTANT KEEPER, SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. “Quum prorepserunt primls anlmalia tenis, Mutum et turpe pecus, glandem atque cubilia propter Unguibus et pugnis, dein fastibus, atque ita porro Pugnabant armis quae post fabiicaverat csus.” Horace, Sat. I.…
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Die Waffensammlung im Schützenmuseum
Die Handfeuerwaffensammlung im Schützenmuseum umfasst über 400 Objekte. Im Treppenhaus vom EG zum 1. OG wird die Entwicklung der Schweizer Ordonnanzwaffen bis zum heutigen Tag chronologisch dargestellt. The handgun collection at the Rifle Museum comprises over 400 objects. The staircase leading from the ground floor to the first floor presents a chronological presentation of the…
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Biblical Translations and Cross-cultural Communication – A focus on the Animal Imagery
INTRODUCTION Ancient translations of the Hebrew Bible constitute an interesting field for exploring cross-cultural encounters, since the translation process inevitably involves a significant variation of nouns, concepts and contents, that create a kind of ὁὂeὀ ‘ἴὁὄdeὄlἳὀd’ ἴetweeὀ cultuὄeὅ, wheὄe elemeὀtὅ ὁf continuity and discontinuity can be more clearly observed. These transformations are particularly evident in…
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Bestiary Imagery in Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth Century
Adam S. Cohen Abstract: In medieval bestiaries, knowledge about animals and their behavior is regularly given a Christian moral interpretation. This article explores the use of imagery related to the bestiary tradition in three Hebrew books made around the year 1300, focusing especially on the richly decorated Rothschild Pentateuch (Los Angeles, Getty Museum MS 116).…
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Biblical Creatures The Animal as an Object of Interpretation in Pre-Modern Christian and Jewish Hermeneutic Traditions
Interfaces – A Journal of Medieval European Literature Volume 5, 2018
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Hermann Historica – The Karsten Klingbeil Collection
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ANTIQUE ARMS AND ARMOUR Tuesday December 13, 2011 – 3.00 pm THE KARSTEN KLINGBEIL COLLECTION THOSE WHO HAVE MET KARSTEN KLINGBEIL WILL AGREE THAT HE CAN BE RATED AMONGST THE FOREMOST COLLECTOR PERSONALITIES OF OUR TIMES, ALWAYS PURSUING HIS INTERESTS WITH GREAT VIGOUR AND PASSION. An artist at heart, he nonetheless felt compelled towards a…
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A Revolution in Arms: A History of the First Repeating Rifles (Review)
Robert B. GordonTechnology and Culture, Volume 48, Number 2, April 2007, pp. 457-458 (Review)
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A particular wheellock pistol in Turin
Marco Morin The weapon appears also interesting from a technical point of view since it has aparticularly safety system, used only rarely and, to our knowledge, only on pistols ofGerman origin.
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A CURSED, ABOMINABLE DEVICE?
The True, Shared History of Knights and Firearms Dr. Tobias Capwell FSA, Curator of Arms and Armour • The Wallace Collection
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Material Culture and Military History: Test-Firing Early Modern Small Arms
Peter Krenn – Steiermarkisches Landesmuseum JahanneumPaul Kalaus – Austrian ArmyBert Hall – University of Toronto Abstract This article is in two parts. Part 1 summarizes the results of a series of test-firings of genuine early modem small arms carried out in 1988-89 by staff of the Landeszeughaus (Provincial Armoury) in Graz, Austria — a division…