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French advertising card: ‘Winter in the Serbian trenches’

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Description: This is an advertising card for cod liver oil with, on the front side, a photo of Serbian troops in a trench with, beneath, the French text: ‘L’hiver dans les tranchées serbes’. On the back is advertising copy for the cod liver oil, again in French, with the text: ‘Un verra a liqueur de gaduase équivaut á un grand verre d’huile de foie de morue. La Gaduase. Véritable extrait synthétique d’huile de foi de morue. Très agréable á prendre – facile á digérer. Est en venta dans toutes les bonnes pharmacies’.

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Menukaart pakketboot 'Le Portugal'

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Description: menukaart 14 augustus 1904 Pakketboot Le Portugal 1ste klas Frantalig menu Diner geen vermelding van wijnen ... || menukaart 14 augustus 1904

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Creditors' book Petri Andreae Matthioli (herbal book) || Kreutterbuch desz ... Petri Andreae Matthioli (Kräuter-Buch)

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Description: The fourth book. Hyacinths, Magseeds. Mohe. Stuffed Mahen (hyacinth, poppy, poppy, garden poppy) Sheet 368 verso/369 recto from: L 'Obel, Mattioli, Pietro Andrea; Camerarius, Joachim [editor]: creutterbook desz... Petri Andreae Matthioli - [Now remorseful with lots of beautiful new figures... gemehret and verfertiget... by Ioachimum Camerarium...]. Franckfort a M.: Feyer: für Fischer und Dacken, 1590. Dresden: SLUB Botan.210 || || in color, quer || Das vierdte Buch. Hyazinthen, Magsamen. Mohe. Gefüllter Mahen (Hyazinthen, Mohn, Mohnsamen, Gartenmohn) Blatt 368 verso/369 recto aus: L'Obel, Mattioli, Pietro Andrea ; Camerarius, Joachim Herausgeber: Kreutterbuch desz ... Petri Andreae Matthioli - Jetzt widerumb mit viel schönen neuwen Figuren ... gemehret und verfertiget ... durch Ioachimum Camerarium .... . Franckfort a. M.: Feyerabend für Fischer und Dacken, 1590. Dresden: SLUB Botan.210

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Microscopy: diagrams illustrating insects and parts of insects. Engraving by A. Bell.

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Description: Lettering: Microscopic objects. ; A Bell prin. Wal. Sculptor fecit.

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Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, F III 34 : Composite manuscript (natural science and theology) || Basel | Universitätsbibliothek | F III 34 : Composite manuscript (natural science and theology)

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Description: This manuscript, written in a 13th century textura, was the property of the cleric and historian Dietrich von Niem (1340-1418), who provided it with numerous marginal notes. The volume, which was passed on to the Carthusian Monastery of Basel, contains, among others, Seneca’s Naturales quaestiones, the discussion Cur deus homo? by Anselm of Canterbury, and the astrological work De radiis stellarum by the Arab philosopher and scientist Alkindi. It also contains the article De probatione virginitatis beatae Mariae from the so-called Suda, a Byzantine encyclopedia widely used in the Latin translation by Roberto Grosseteste.

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Postcard from the field

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Description: This postcard was sent to my great-grand-mother, aunt of the sender. Interesting to see that the authorities have allowed the added Christmas greeting in contravention of the instructions. || British Field postcard

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Foglio di congedo illimitato di Varini Vittorio

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Description: Foglio di congedo illimitato di Varini Vittorio; congedato con buona condotta

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Pensione di invalidità di guerra

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Description: Documento d’invalidità per congelamento. Datato 24 novembre 1919

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Autorizzazione a fregiarsi del distintivo militare

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Description: Autorizzazione a fregiarsi del distintivo militare: una stelletta corrispondente ad un anno di guerra || Back

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Propaganda austriaca

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Description: Manifestino di propaganda austriaca, rivolto ai soldati italiani (e facente leva sul tradimento dell’Italia e sull’importanza del porto di Trieste per l’Austria – e sulla sua inutilità per l’Italia), non datato ma risalente al 1918, è stato trovato, con altro materiale cartaceo vario – tra cui il diario della postazione telefonica – alla fine degli anni ’80 dentro una baracca, una postazione austriaca praticamente integra, a 3400 m s.l.m. nel Gruppo dell’Ortles

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Ratne bojne dopisnice - Feldpost iz Prvog svjetskog rata

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Description: Ratne bojne dopisnice (Feldpost) bile su najfunkcionalnije sredstvo komuniciranja vojnika sa porodicom tokom Prvog svjetskog rata. Većinom su bile cenzurisane i na njima se nalazio pečat vojne cenzure, regimentalni pečat i pečat vojne pošte. Na velikom broju dopisnica nalazila su se sva tri pečata, međutim, nerijetko se nalazio samo jedan ili dva. Poznato je da su vojnici bili strogo kažnjavani ukoliko su svjesno pisali bilo šta što otkriva vojne tajne. Pisati su mogli samo vojnici. Sve što bi napisali davalo bi se vojnom cenzoru da to pregleda i tek kad on odobri moglo se poslati porodici. Čitajući pisma, može se uvidjeti da su ona poprilično štura, te da su dobro pazili o svemu šta je napisano, upravo iz razloga da bi izbjegli probleme sa nadređenim. Feldpost sistem Austro-ugarske Monarhije, omogućavao je vojnicima da komuniciraju sa svojim najbližima. Sačuvane razglednice i pisma pružaju lični pogled na to kako su pojedini vojnici doživljavali sukobe. || Devet bojnih dopisnica (Feldpost)

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Gaelic medical manuscript

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Description: A 15th-century materia medica, with specifics and a calendar, decorated with ornamental initials and colour. Formerly belonging to the Beaton family of physicians, it was sold to the Advocates Library by Robert Freebairn, bookseller, in 1736.

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Gaelic medical manuscript collection

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Description: ?15th-century medical manuscript. On APHORISMS of Hippocrates. Authorities cited: Galen, Isaac, Aristotle, G(il)b(ertinus), Gerallterus (6r.a8), Ricardus (6r), Avicenna.

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Scientific treatises on Music, Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrology

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Description: This manuscript contains a collection of scientific works. It opens with treatises on music by the Italian Benedictine monk Guido of Arezzo (b. c. 995, d. 1050) that were highly influential in the development of polyphonic music and staff notation.…etc.

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