Chemical characterization of majolica from 14th-18th century production centers on the Iberian Peninsula: a preliminary neutron activation study

Majolica pottery is one of the most characteristic tableware produced during the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Majolica technology was introduced to the Iberian Peninsula by Islamic artisans during Medieval times, and its production and popularity rapidly spread throughout Spain and eventually to other locations in Europe and the Americas. The prestige and importance of Spanish majolica was very high. Consequently, this ware was imported profusely to the Americas during the Spanish Colonial period. Nowadays, Majolica pottery serves as an important horizon marker at Spanish colonial sites. A preliminary study of Spanish-produced majolica was conducted on a set of 246 samples from the 12 primary majolica production centers on the Iberian Peninsula. The samples were analyzed by neutron activation analysis (NAA), and the resulting data were interpreted using an array of multivariate statistical procedures. Our results show a clear discrimination between different production centers. In some cases, our data allow one to distinguish amongst shards coming from the same production location suggesting different workshops or group of workshops were responsible for production of this pre-industrial pottery.

A collection of autograph letters and original documents relating to the Island of Barbados in the 18th century, ca. 1730-1778

A miscellaneous collection of letter and legal documents relating to Barbados, especially prize causes, inheritance and slaves.

Commonplace book of Nathaniel Freeman, 1786-1787

Nathaniel Freeman made entries in this commonplace book between 1786 and 1787, while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The book includes the notes Freeman took during three of Hollis Professor Samuel Williams' "Course of Experimental Lectures," and cover Williams' lectures on "The Nature & Properties of Matter," "Attraction & Repulsion," and "The Nature, Kind, & Affections [?] of Motion." These notes also include one diagram. The book also includes forensic compositions on the subjects of capital punishment, the probability of "the immortality of the soul," and "whether there be any disinterested benevolence." It also includes a poem Freeman composed for his uncle, Edmund Freeman; an anecdote about Philojocus and Gripus; an essay called "Character"; a draft of a letter to the Harvard Corporation requesting that, in light of the public debt, the Commencement ceremonies be held privately to lower expenses and exhibit the merits of economy; and an "epistle" to his father, requesting money. This epistle begins: "Most honored sire, / Thy son, poor Nat, in humble strains, / Impell'd by want, thy generous bounty claims."

A small house in the sun; the visage of rural New England;

Illustrated t.-p.

The ports of southern New England. (Revised 1937)

Reports on the ports of Providence and Newport, Rhode Island; New Bedford and Fall River, Mass.; New Haven, New London, Bridgeport, Norwalk and Stamford, Conn. cf. p. v.

The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer isles together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar /

Index prepared by Madame Marie Michon.

Anniversary celebration of the New England Society in the City of New York.

Includes the Society's constitution, by-laws, charities, and list of members.

Where have all the firms gone? : An analysis of the New England economy /

Chiefly tables.

The resources of the New England-New York region.

Mode of access: Internet.

Journal of the New England Water Works Association.

Mode of access: Internet.

Transactions of the New England Water Works Association.

Mode of access: Internet.

Recollections of a New England educator, 1838-1908 : reminiscences--biographical, pedagogical, historical /

Mode of access: Internet.

Dominion and power; or, The science of life and living,

Mode of access: Internet.

The Knox manuscripts : being the substance of a report made at the annual meeting of the New England historic genealogical society, January 5, 1881, on the arrangement and binding of the manuscripts presented to the society by the late Rear Admiral Henry K. Thatcher /

Mode of access: Internet.

A genetic history of the New England theology.

Mode of access: Internet.