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VII. Language - Philosophy - Philology [series]:
(5 items)
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C. F. H. (unidentified), Charaden, Rathsel, Logogryphen, Homonymen,
Anagramen .
(239 pp.)
Scope: Bound Auto ms. Compilation of puzzles, word games, homonyms,
and anagrams. Published in Pressburg.
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Dacus Giovanni, Il Paternoster in
varie Lingue .
(154 pp.)
Scope: Bound Auto ms. The Lord’s Prayer in Asian, European, and
American languages. Each page illustrated, and each script done in
stylized calligraphy.
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Photographs of leaves from Blaise de Vigenères’ Traicté des chiffres .
Scope: Contains Chinese and Japanese characters.
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| box-folder 6/23 |
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Specimens of sixty-five out of
the one hundred and sixty-four Versions of the Holy Scripture
printed or promoted by the British and Foreign Bible
Society .
(132 pp.)
Scope: Bound Auto ms., with pasted inserts from printed books. Pasted
in single pages taken from Bibles printed in various languages,
with descriptive Auto note opposite each one, and 3 printed charts
and maps from the Society laid inside back cover. Auto note
opposite title page, dated June 15, 1877, by William Major Paulk
states in part that “the writing is in the hand of Mr. Stokes
Dudley, formerly one of the District Secretaries of the B & F
Bible Society.”
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Traitte des Poids, des monoyes et
des chifres qui et orent en usage ches les Hebreux, les Grecs et
ches les Romains pour servira l’intelligence des Anciens
auteurs .
(119 pp.)
Scope: Bound Auto ms. Treatise on ancient Hebrew, Greek and Roman
philology. P. M. Arnold notes “Very little of this is original.
The chart on p. 98, and the two first groups of figure symbols on
page 101 (given more fully on page 118) are copied from Pienio
Valeriano ‘Hieroglyphica’, cap XXXVII.”
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