Manuscripts
Cuneiform tablet :
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Cuneiform tablet :
Manuscripts
Babylonian rectangular, plano convex, clay tablet dated "the year when Bur-sin destroyed the city of Urbillum." It records amounts of grain and flour delivered to the house of a city governor. With a note about the item.
mssHM 84334
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Cuneiform tablet; inventory of grain
Manuscripts
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
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Erasable (School) Drawing and Writing Tablet, No. 2
Visual Materials
One drawing book printed by American Tablet Manuf. Co., Boston, Massachusetts, containing six pages of heavy paper board. The first four pages consist of two sets of printed images and blank areas. The last two pages of the tablet feature penmanship examples and blank areas below. The student was supposed to "[d]raw in the blank spaces with a soft lead pencil, and erase with a damp woolen cloth." However, the majority of the printed images have been traced over rather than copied.
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Drawing Tablet
Visual Materials
One drawing book of original drawings entitled Drawing Tablet, artist unnamed, manufactured by the Pennsylvania School Supply Co., Philadelphia, ca. 1890? The drawing book is 14 unnumbered leaves in length, and contains original pencil drawings of geometric shapes, patterns and designs, some of which are labeled. The front and back covers are illustrated with a woodcut scene of a seated woman painting in her studio. Below the image is the series phrase "Student's Series - No. 2221." Tissue paper guard sheets are bound in between each of the leaves.
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Alessandro Volta receipts
Manuscripts
These two receipts were signed by Alessandro Volta in Milan. They are in Italian. The first receipt (a) is dated 1780, January 3 and the second receipt (b) is dated 1781, July 19.
mssHM 81241 (a & b)
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Buddhist Bible extract
Manuscripts
This extract is from Burma and includes the formulae for the ordination of monks. The decorations and illustrations are gilt and lacquer on boards made of woven bamboo fibre and horsehair treated with clay, dried and then varnished; it was probably a gift to a monastery library from a king or noble of Burma.
mssHM 68492