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Leather sandal

Carabatina Roman shoe/sandal of petrified leather in “gladiator” style, with seam at center back and geometric open perforated pattern. Open perforations longer on one side of vamp, suggesting they folded over and were laced across top of foot. Missing heel and toe; stitching at center back.

Date: 0300/0400

Item Type: Physical Object

Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Leather shoe

Carabatina Roman shoe/sandal of petrified leather in “gladiator” style, with seam at center back and perforated loops across vamp, suggested they folded over and were laced across foot. Missing heel and toe.

Date: 0300/0400

Item Type: Physical Object

Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Roman sandal

Date: 0300/0400

Item Type: Physical Object

Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

[Leaf from 13th Century Bible]

A leaf from a Latin Bible from England or France, ca. 1220-1240. Text from the end of Jonah 4, and Micha 1-3 is displayed in 2 columns, gothic scripts (texuais formata). A notable feature of this particular leaf is that the writing begins "below top line" which suggests the MS was written after 1230 (see: N.R. Ker, "From 'Above Top Line; to 'Below Top Line': A Change in Scribal Practice," Celtica, 5 [1960] 13-16). Note also that the chapter numbers were added later (standardization was begun in… more

Date: [1220..1240]

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Leaf from Latin Bible of 2 Kings 5, 13th Century, England or France?]

A leaf from a Latin Bible, (England, or France, ca. 1230-1260), including second Kings 5. Text is displayed in 2 columns, gothic script (texuais formata). A notable feature of this particular leaf is that the writing begins "below top line" which suggest the MS was written "below top line" which suggest the MS was written after 1230 (see: N.R. Ker, "From 'Above Top Line; to 'Below Top Line': A Change in Scribal Practice," Celtica, 5 [1960] 13-16). Note also that the chapter numbers were added l… more

Date: [1220..1240]

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Manuscript Leaf of James I from Latin Bible 13th Century, England or France?]

Vellum leaf from a Latin Bible (England or France, ca. 1220-1240). The text is James 1 et seq. (note that the chapter heading is "IACOBUS") with multiple glosses in the margins. A notable feature of this particular leaf is that the writing begins "below top line" which suggest the MS was written after 1230 (see: N.R. Ker, "From 'Above Top Line; to 'Below Top Line': A Change in Scribal Practice," Celtica, 5 [1960] 13-16). Note also that the chapter numbers were added later (standardization was b… more

Date: [1220..1240]

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Manuscript Leaf from Latin Bible [James I], 13th Century, England or France]

A leaf from a Latin Bible (England or France, ca. 1225-1275). Text displayed in 2 columns, gothic script (texuais formata). A notable feature of this particular leaf is that the writing begins "below top line" which suggest the MS was written after 1230 (see: N.R. Ker, "From 'Above Top Line; to 'Below Top Line': A Change in Scribal Practice," Celtica, 5 [1960] 13-16). Note also that the chapter numbers were added later (standardization was begun in Paris ca. 1230). The text is James 1 et seq. (… more

Date: [1225..1275]

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Bible Leaf with Text from 1st Maccabee, 13th Century]

A leaf from a Bible in Latin (France or England, ca. 1230-1260) containing text from 1 Maccabees 1 et seq. ("Et factum est postquam percussit Alexander Philippi Macedo"). Text displayed as 2 columns, gothic script (texualis formata). A notable feature of this particular leaf is that the writing begins "below top line" which suggest the MS was written "below top line" which suggests the MS was written after 1230 (see: N.R. Ker, "From 'Above Top Line; to 'Below Top Line': A Change in Scribal Pra… more

Date: [1230..1260]

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Latin Bible Leaf [Peter 1 & 2] from the Mid 13th Century, England or France]

Manuscript leaf from England or France, ca. 1230-1260. Sourced from a Latin Bible with text 1 Peter 3-5 and 2 Peter 1 et seq. displayed in 2 columns, gothic script (texuais formata). A notable feature of this particular leaf is that the writing begins "below top line" which suggest the MS was written after 1230 (see: N.R. Ker, "From 'Above Top Line; to 'Below Top Line': A Change in Scribal Practice," Celtica, 5 [1960] 13-16). Note also that the chapter numbers were added later (standardization … more

Date: [1230..1260]

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Liturgical Calendar Leaf from a Book of Hours 14th Century, France or the Netherlands?]

A leaf displaying the month of November from a liturgical calendar within a Latin Book of Hours. The text indicates so-called "Red Letter" days. This particular Book of Hours was designated use of Sarum (i.e. Salisbury Cathedral) and was bound in France or The Netherlands in the 14th-century most likely for the English Market. Of particular interest is the appearance of "Euduardi Regis" referencing King Edward the III of England [1312-1377].

Date: [1301..1400]

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Manuscript Leaf 14th Century, England]

14th-century leaf from a book of prayer including chants estimated to originate from England, ca. 1360. Text displayed in a single column, gothic script, the Prayer for the Departed ("Oratio. Debitum humani corporis sepelieudi officium fidelium more complentes"). Followed by the chant "Clementissime domine qui pro nostra miseria ab imporium magnibus mortis supplicium pertulisti" with numes on a 4-line staff.

Date: 1360~

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Leather shoe

Tudor style shoe of petrified leather with elongated profile and square toe. Stitching connecting sole to upper, at center back, and along insole and opposite insole.

Date: 1475/1525

Item Type: Physical Object

Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Leather shoe

Shoe of petrified leather with elongated profile, squared toe, and tabs from both sides that tie over center tongue and form keyhole openings at sides. Stitching holding together several pieces and sole missing. Reproduction lace.

Date: 1475/1525

Item Type: Physical Object

Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

[Haebler Incunabula Plate 60]

Plate 60 - Westminster, Wynkyn de Worde, 1497. Type 3 & 5.

Date: 1497

Creator: De Worde, Wynkyn & Haebler, Konrad

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Map of Europe as queen]

Map shows a stylized Europe in the form of a woman. [Spain] is her head and [Gaul], [Germany], [Denmark], [Poland], [Hungary], [Greece], [Bulgaria], [Macedonia], and Scythia are the remainder of her body. Europe is shown surrounded by Africa, [England], [Scotland], [Scandinavia], and Asia. Includes text in lower margin. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.

Date: [1550..1570]

Creator: Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552

Item Type: Map

Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

["Poor Robin" satire cartoon engraving]

Satirical engraving of William Winstanley or "Poor Robin" circa 1600. The print was printed and published by Ben Harris in Bell Alley in Coleman Street, London, England. The image shows the poet Winstanley standing in his studio with a pen in one hand and a cup of wine in the other. He appears surrounded by alchemical symbols in a cloud around his head and on a square he stands in on the floor.

Date: 1600

Creator: Harris, Ben

Item Type: Artwork

Location: 51.516152 -0.085197

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Insularum Britannicarum.

Map shows Hadrian's Wall and settlements in the British Isles and Ireland. Includes notes and illustrations of sailing ships, sea creatures, and people. Scale not given.

Date: [1638..1858]

Creator: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598

Item Type: Map

Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

["The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; "Burdock refiting the surgeon's attempt to trepan him."]

Etching and engraving print from page 216 of Charles Grignion I's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; "Burdock refiting the surgeon's attempt to trepan him.". The print includes an oval framing the scene with characteristic flourishes of ivy vines surrounding a plaque with the title information. The main figure in the image appears standing on his bed angrily confronting a flustered doctor to a room of terrified onlookers. The print was part of a copy of the picaresque novel "The Expedition of… more

Date: [1695..1800]

Creator: Grignion, Charles the Elder

Item Type: Artwork

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Satirical print of English political figure Hugh Peters c.1600]

Satirical Print of English preacher, political advisor and soldier who supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War. The engraving, circa. 1600, shows Hugh Peters with a devil on his back with each foot on a stack of books that correspond to church and state while he holds the ties to bags of money that are labeled with "Revenue", "Plunder", "Thimbles" and "Benefices". Symbols of the monarchy and the church appear on the floor by his feet.

Date: [1695..1800]

Item Type: Artwork

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["The Beggars Opera" etching and engraving]

Etching and engraving print of an lively outdoor opera with a small pit orchestra and performers in animals masks. The print, "The Beggars Opera", published in 1728 was printed for John Bonles and The Black Horse in Cornhill.

Date: 1728

Creator: Hogarth, William; Blake, William & Bonles, John

Item Type: Artwork

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etching and engraving "David Tenier's House"]

Etching and engraving of "David Tenier's House" published on August 15, 1757. The design was attribute to Dutch miniaturist David Eniers the Younger (1610-1690) and was printed by English printmaker Thomas Major (1720-1799). The image shows a large manor house on the right edge of a river bank with a bridge arching over the river. A group of three fisherman are gathered on the shore in the foreground communicating the scale of the rest of the scene to the viewer.

Date: August 15, 1757

Creator: Major, Thomas & Eniers the Younger, David

Item Type: Artwork

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The Environs, or Countries Twenty Miles Round London

Hand-drawn map of 20 counties around London in 1761. Various buildings and features are marked on the map pictorally.

Date: 1761

Creator: Kitchin, Thomas

Item Type: Map

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

A New and Correct Plan of London, Westminster and Southwark, with several Additional Improvements, not in any former Survey.

Map showing plan of London (Westminster and Southwark) as of 1761. Streets and some buildings are noted. Scale 1:10,800.

Date: 1761

Item Type: Map

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Portrait etching and engraving of actor David Garrick]

Etching and engraving of English actor David Garrick printed on December 1st, 1773. The design is attributed to N. Dance and was printed by British engraver and painter John Hall. The image surrounded by a detailed oval frame and two cherubs holding symbolic objects tied to drama and the theatre.

Date: December 1, 1773

Creator: Hall, John & Dance, N.

Item Type: Artwork

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections