Unknown engraver after Athanasius Kircher, 'The 72 Names of God', from Kircher's 'Oedipus Aegyptiacus', 1654
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Frederich Srass, 'The Stream of Time' (history chart), engraving with later hand-coloring, 1849
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N. Mendal Shafer, 'Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union', 1862, engraving and chromolithograph
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Jean Malaurie, radial geneaological diagram of a Canadian Inuit village, circa 1955, pencil and inks
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Draft page of Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”
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Ottoman map of the United States from 1803 with names of states and indigenous tribes
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Pages from an Arabic 17th century CE manuscript, which sets out instructions for the practical uses of an astrolabe
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Kennicott Bible, 1476. Made at La Coruña, Spain. illustrated by Joseph Ibn Hayyim. This Hebrew Bible owes its name to the Hebraist Benjamin Kennicott
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Folio from the "Tashkent Qur'an"
Ink on parchment
late 8th–early 9th c
Syria, Yemen, or North Africa
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Rooster from an Ashkenazi Haggadah, a Hebrew manuscript from Southern Germany, possibly Ulm. Written and illuminated in the second half of the 15th century
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