The voyages and travells of the ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia : begun in the year M.DC.XXXIII, and finish'd in M.DC.XXXIX : containing a compleat history of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, and other adjacent countries : with several publick transactions reaching near the present times : in VII books ;

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The progresses, processions, and magnificent festivities of King James the First, his royal consort, family, and court, collected from original manuscripts, scarce pamphlets, corporation records, parochial registers, ec. ec.; comprising forty masques and entertainments, ten civic pageants, numerous original letters and annotated lists of the peers, baronets, and knights who received those honours during the reign of King James. Illustrated with notes, historical, topographical, biographical, and bibliographical.

"First published London 1828."

Address delivered before the Blockley and Merion Agricultural Society on Saturday, September 20th, 1828 : on the death on [i.e. of] their late president, the Hon. Richard Peters /

Mode of access: Internet.

Biography of the principal sovereigns of Europe who have reigned since the French Revolution : adorned with portraits of Their Majesties the King of Great Britain, the Emperors and Empresses of Austria and Russia, the Kings of Bavaria, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Prussia, Sardinia, Saxony, Spain, Sweden, Two Sicilies, Wurtemberg, and the Grand Signior.

Mode of access: Internet.

Letter from Sir Joseph de Cancy, knight of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, to King Edward I. (1281), and Letter from King Edward I, to Sir Joseph (1282).

Mode of access: Internet.

Charles I. in 1646. Letters of King Charles the First to Queen Henrietta Maria.

Mode of access: Internet.

Historical sketches of Charles the First, Cromwell, Charles the Second, and the principal personages of that period : including the king's trial and execution: to which is annexed an account of the sums exacted by the commonwealth from the royalists, and the names of all those who compounded for their estates; with other scarce documents. Illustrated by fifty lithographic plates.

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Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S., to which is subjoined the private correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas, and between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne.

Half-title of v. 4: Bohn's historical library.

King of the Renaissance: Art and Politics at the Neapolitan Court of Ferrante I, 1458-1494

In the second half of the fifteenth century, King Ferrante I of Naples (r. 1458-1494) dominated the political and cultural life of the Mediterranean world. His court was home to artists, writers, musicians, and ambassadors from England to Egypt and everywhere in between. Yet, despite its historical importance, Ferrante’s court has been neglected in the scholarship. This dissertation provides a long-overdue analysis of Ferrante’s artistic patronage and attempts to explicate the king’s specific role in the process of art production at the Neapolitan court, as well as the experiences of artists employed therein. By situating Ferrante and the material culture of his court within the broader discourse of Early Modern art history for the first time, my project broadens our understanding of the function of art in Early Modern Europe. I demonstrate that, contrary to traditional assumptions, King Ferrante was a sophisticated patron of the visual arts whose political circumstances and shifting alliances were the most influential factors contributing to his artistic patronage. Unlike his father, Alfonso the Magnanimous, whose court was dominated by artists and courtiers from Spain, France, and elsewhere, Ferrante differentiated himself as a truly Neapolitan king. Yet Ferrante’s court was by no means provincial. His residence, the Castel Nuovo in Naples, became the physical embodiment of his commercial and political network, revealing the accretion of local and foreign visual vocabularies that characterizes Neapolitan visual culture.

Peftjauawybast, king of Nen-nesut : genealogy, art history, and the chronology of late libyan Egypt

This paper argues in detail for the identification of Peftjauawybast, King of Nen-nesut (fl. 728/720 BC ), with Peftjauawybast, High Priest of Ptah in Memphis (fl. c. 790–780 BC2), known from the Apis stela of year 28 of Shoshenq III. This identification ties in with a significant lowering of the accepted dates for the kings from Shoshenq III, Osorkon III and Takeloth III to Shoshenq V, and the material culture associated with them. Such a shift seems to be supported by stylistic and genealogical evidence. As a consequence, it is further suggested that the Master of Shipping at Nen-nesut, Pediese i, was perhaps related by descent and marriage to the family of the High Priests of Memphis and King Peftjauawybast.

La primera traducció goldoniana al català: La viuda astuta de Vicenç Albertí i Vidal. Manuscrit, traducció i context

La part A és un estudi filològic introductori de l'obra teatral La viuda astuta, de 1818, traduïda al menorquí per Vicenç Albertí i Vidal de l'obra La vedova scaltra de Carlo Goldoni. Hi torbem un recorregut per la vida, obra, marc intel·lectual i trajectòria de la activitat traductora d'Albertí. Així mateix hi trobem una localització de La vedova Scaltra dins la primera etapa de la reforma goldoniana. I finalment s'hi desenvolupa l'estudi comparatiu-lingüístic de La vedova Scaltra amb la versió catalana d'Albertí. La part B consta de la transcripció comentada, amb 153 notes, del manuscrit de La viuda astuta. La part C és la transcripció integral de l'obra original, seguint l'edició Giuseppe Ortolani, 1936, que s'acara amb la part D que és la traducció catalana realitzada per la doctoranda.

Multiwavelength Observations of EXO 0748-676. I. Reprocessing of X-Ray Bursts

We present high time-resolution multiwavelength observations of X-ray bursts in the low-mass X-ray binary UY Vol. Strong reprocessed signals are present in the ultraviolet and optical, lagged and smeared with respect to the X-rays. The addition of far-ultraviolet coverage for one burst allows much tighter constraints on the temperature and geometry of the reprocessing region than previously possible. A blackbody reprocessing model for this burst suggests a rise in temperatures during the burst from 18,000 to 35,000 K and an emitting area comparable to that expected for the disk and/or irradiated companion star. The lags are consistent with those expected. The single-zone blackbody model cannot reproduce the ratio of optical to ultraviolet flux during the burst, however. The discrepancy seems too large to explain with deviations from a local blackbody spectrum and more likely indicates that a range of reprocessing temperatures are required. Comparable results are derived from other bursts, and in particular the lag and smearing both appear shorter when the companion star is on the near side of the disk as predicted. The burst observed by HST also yielded a spectrum of the reprocessed light. It is dominated by continuum, with a spectral shape consistent with the temperatures derived from lightcurve modeling. Taken as a whole, our observations confirm the standard paradigm of prompt reprocessing distributed across the disk and companion star, with the response dominated by a thermalized continuum rather than by emission lines.

The picture gallery of Charles I.

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Memoirs of Elizabeth Stuart, queen of Bohemia, daughter of King James the First. Including sketches of the state of society in Holland and Germany, in the 17th century.

Mode of access: Internet.

The crusade of Richard I, 1189-92 : extracts from the Itinerarium Ricardi, Bohãadin, Ernoul, Roger of Howden, Richard of Devizes, Rigord, Ibn Alathãir, Li Livres, Eracles, &c. /

Disbound original held in Oak Street Library Facility.