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[Document with Decrees Promulgated by the Cortes de Cádiz]

Description: List of decrees promulgated by the Cortes de Cádiz during the year 1812 up to October 27. The decrees are listed out in chronological order and cover many topics: use the royal standard; negroes may be admitted to schools and ecclesiastical studies; employees cease to be so when the job is declared finished; a town in given the title of "noble and loyal city"; and hanging is replaced by strangling for criminals sentenced to death.
Date: 1812-10~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

[Postcard of Sculpture Showing Guards Nailing Jesus to Cross]

Description: Postcard of a photograph of a sculpture depicting male Roman guards hammering nails into the hands of a man in a loincloth, pinning him into a board on the ground. French text at the top of the postcard identifies the sculpture as part of a Calvary installation in Pontchâteau in Brittany. The other side of the postcard is blank except for postcard markings.
Date: 19uu
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Howard Payne University Library

[Postcard of Pontchâteau Calvary Statue]

Description: Postcard of a photograph of a large statue of a man in long robes and a beard, stretching both arms out with the palms facing down. The statue is situated at the top of a large rock. Countryside can be seen behind the statue. French text at the top of the postcard identifies the statue as the Ascension, located in Pontchâteau in Brittany. The other side of the postcard is blank except for postcard markings.
Date: 19uu
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Howard Payne University Library

[Postcard of Damaged Virgin Statue at Reims Cathedral]

Description: Postcard of a photograph of stone statue of a woman wearing long robes and crown with a cloth head-covering underneath it. The woman holds a baby in her left hand, but the baby is missing its head. The statue is situated in the corner of a room, against a wall. Printed text at the bottom of the postcard identifies the statue as the Virgin Mary and Christ Child after a bombing on the Reims Cathedral in Reims, Marne, Grand Est France. The other side of the postcard is blank except for postcard ma… more
Date: [1914..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: None
Partner: Howard Payne University Library

[Postcard of Pontchâteau Calvary Statues]

Description: Postcard of a photograph of a group of large statues of men in robes, standing around another statue on a large rock formation. The statue on top of the rock formation depicts a man in long, flowing robes with his arms outstretched. The statues are situated in an open, rocky area with desert plants. French text at the top of the postcard identifies the statues as Calvary statues at Pontchâteau in Brittany. The other side of the postcard is blank except for postcard markings.
Date: 19uu
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Howard Payne University Library

[Postcard of Pontchâteau Calvary Statues]

Description: Postcard of a photograph of a grassy hilltop, at the top of which are three wooden crosses with a statue of a man hanging from each. Other statues of men in long robes are gathered around the crosses. French text at the top of the postcard identifies the statues as part of the Calvary installation in Pontchâteau in Brittany. The other side of the postcard is blank except for postcard markings.
Date: 19uu
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Howard Payne University Library

[Manuscript Leaf from a Volume on Saints' Lives from the 12th Century, Italy/Lombardy]

Description: A leaf from a volume on the lives of saints from Italy, perhaps Lombardy, ca. 1100. Attenuated Caroline minuscule. Rubric in red majuscules. 16 line initial "P" with curling foliate infill. With the inscription of "D. Thomasio de Belmont" (perhaps Belmont-sur-Lausanne) and the date 1681 in one margin. Begins with an account of the life of Saint Cyprian.
Date: 1100
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Manuscript Leaf from 13th Century, Germany?]

Description: 13th-century German manuscript leaf. Double column, transitional Caroline/gothic hand. Text from a Lectionary(Matthew 13:15 - 13:21, in which Christ explains to his disciples why he speaks in parables). Written by an accomplished scribe, with capitals, ampersands, ligatures, and fishtail-like terminations at the top of ascenders indicate that the script is transitional, from the late Caroline to the early gothic. Recovered from a bound book.
Date: [1201..1300]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Manuscript Leaf from the 12th Century, Italy]

Description: This 12th-century Italian manuscript recovered from a binding, displays a double column, rounded Italian gothic hand, and a series of tiny pinpricks at edges where binding hardware had been attached. Text here contains parts of the homilies from Johannes Chrysostomus' work on the priesthood, "De Dignitate Sacerdotali," and from Saint Gergory's "Homiliae in Evangelia."
Date: 1150~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[French Book of Hours Liturgical Calendar, April, Late 15th Century]

Description: A leaf for the month of April from a Liturgical calendar from a Book of Hours. Text displayed in single column, bâtarde hand. Three-line "KL" in brushed gold on a maroon ground, five one-line Domical letters in similar style, saints' days in red or blue (one major feast day in gold), each side with a panel border in the rinceau style, with swirling hairline stems bearing numerous burnished gold ivy leaves and berries and red and blue blossoms, the panel on the recto with a roundel showing the l… more
Date: [1450..1500]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Annie Belle Emery Bright, Frances Marion Allen, and Sheila Emery Allen on Mediterranean cruise photograph album]

Description: Photograph album chronicling Annie Belle Emery Bright, Frances Marion Allen, and Sheila Emery Allen's Mediterranean cruise trip. The women visited ruins, religious sites, and public markets. Places visited include Serbia, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jerusalem, Turkey, Greece, and Spain. Most of the photographs are labeled with typed strips of paper.
Date: 1963
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Tarrant County Archives

[Postcard of Cave of the Agony of Jesus]

Description: Postcard of a photograph of two statues in a rocky cavern, behind a metal fence. The statue on the left shows an angel in long, flowing robes, while the other statue shows a man in long robes leaning against a rock. French text at the bottom of the postcard identifies the statues as depicting the Agony of Jesus, part of the Calvary installation in Pontchâteau in Brittany. The other side of the postcard is blank except for postcard markings.
Date: 19uu
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Howard Payne University Library

[Postcard of Damaged Reims Cathedral Statues]

Description: Postcard of a photograph of two statues on the exterior of a stone building, showing signs of heavy damage, including missing limbs, head, and details on their robes. Printed text at the bottom of the postcard identifies the statue on the right as an angel called "The Smile of Reims" at the Reims Cathedral in Reims, Marne, Grand Est France. The text also notes that the photo was taken after a bombing. The other side of the postcard is blank except for postcard markings.
Date: [1914..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: None
Partner: Howard Payne University Library

[Manuscript Leaf from the 14th Century, Italy]

Description: An Italian manuscript leaf from the 14th century, estimated ca. 1350. The spread is laid out as 2 leaves sewn together, indicating recovery from a book that was bound. Notable is the presence of vellum strengthener along the gutter margin with a possible 11th-century inscription of Psalms 103 et seq.
Date: 1350~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Manuscript Leaf 12th Century, France]

Description: A previously bound leaf approximately 12th-century.Text from a Lectionary (?) with text from the Life of Saint Gregory of Spoleto. The words Gregory and martyr appear in red ink. Late romanesque book hand. Seven line initial "T" in yellow on a blue background outlined in red, with a small winged dragon. Recovered from a bookbinding.
Date: 1150~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Manuscript Leaf 15th Century, Northern Netherlands]

Description: 15th-century Book of Hours originating from the Nothern Netherlands [Utrecht], ca. 1430s. Dutch text from the Long Hours of the Cross displayed in single column, 19 lines, gothic book hand. Rubrics in red, capitals struck with red, eight one-line initials in red or blue, verso with one three-line initial in burnished gold embellished with red penwork and extensions' full border composed of a vertical bar border of burnished gold and blue with white tracery, the bars with hairline stems emanatin… more
Date: [1430..1439]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Book of Hours Leaf from the Mid 15th Century, France]

Description: France [Valence], mid-15th century. Text displayed in single column, bâtarde hand. Rubrics in pink, two two-line initials in gold and colors, and with a miniature of Matthew and his angel, enclosed by a rounded gilt frame as well with a border on three sides, the border containing acanthus leaves, hairline vines with gold dots, and trefoils, the same border on the outer margin of the other side of the leaf. The artist here has depicted Matthew in the act of writing. Matthew sits with his back t… more
Date: [1450..1500]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Leaf from a 15th Century Breviary, French or Italian]

Description: A miniature Breviary from the 15th C. including sermons and readings, on 2 Luke: "sermo euangelicus qui praecedit narrat qualiter dominus centurionis puerem obentu magnae eius fiidei sanauerit, et quomodo ipsius centurionis, immoin eo gentium, extulerit fidem."Also "Eternus arque invsibilis rerum conditor, humanum genus quod per longa seculi cranseuntis sparia mortis perpetua."
Date: [1401..1500]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Engraving of a woman holding a cross by Vitali]

Description: Italian engraving print of a woman holding a cross possibly the catholic female saint Margaret of Antioch. The print was a collaboration between painter Guidus Reni and was translated and printed by Pietro Marco Vitali in Rome in 1782. The image is accompanied by descriptive Italian text.
Date: 1782~
Creator: Reni, Guidus & Vitali, Pietro Marco
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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