Two portraits and twelve press photographs of Indian troops in France during the First World War. Photographer(s): Photopress
Scope & Content:
Loose unmounted prints. All but one are press photographs with typed captions on the reverse. Print 1 Portrait of Lady Chelmsford. Print 2 Portrait of Madho Rao, Maharaja of Jaipur. Prints 3-14 Views of Indian troops in France and England during the First World War.
A.S.C. France, 1915 [John Arnold-Forster in the Army Service Corps, France. 1915]. Photographer(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
View of four soldiers on horses with bare trees and a house with a chimney on the left in the background. John is on the white horse on the right. Gelatin silver print; yellowing and silver mirroring throughout print. Inscription in ink beneath print: 'A.S.C.', 'France', '1915.'
A.S.C. France, May 1916 [John Arnold-Forster in the Army Service Corps, France. May 1916]. Photographer(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
View of six soldiers (three standing, three seated); John is seated on the right. Gelatin silver print; slight silver mirroring on left and right edges. Inscription in ink beneath print: 'A.S.C.', 'France', 'May 1916.'
Collection of Latin poetry and fables, including Statius, Achilleis, and Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of Latin works, probably arranged as part of a school curriculum. They include the unfinished epic poem, the Achilleid, by the Greco-Roman author Publius Papinius Statius (b. c. 45, d. c. 96); a popular collection of proverbial wisdom, known as the Catonis D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Les Dits Moraulx des Philosophes, a French translation of Guillaume de Tignonville's Dicta moralia antiquorum philosophorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Les Dits Moraulx des Philosophes (The Moral Sayings of the Philosophers), a French translation of the Latin Dicta moralia antiquorum philosophorum by Guillaume de Tignonville, or Thignonville (d. 1414), Councillor to King Charles VI of France and Prevost of Par...
This manuscript contains the Liber astrologiae of Georgius Fendulus (12th century), an abbreviated Latin version of the astrological work of Abu Ma'shar (b. 787, d. 886). It is a close copy of Paris, BnF, MS Lat. 7330 (1220-40), and it may have served as the exemplar for New York, Morgan Library...