Distribution of foraminiferal fauna from ODP Hole 122-762C (Table 1)

Planktonic foraminiferal diversity, equitability and biostratigraphic analysis of samples from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 122, Hole 762C show that in general, cool water conditions prevailed during the latest Campanian-Maastrichtian in the eastern Indian Ocean. This is indicated by planktonic foraminiferal assemblages characterized by low species diversity and equitability with abundant rugoglobigerinids and heterohelicids. Archaeoglobigerinids, globigerinelloids, hedbergellids, and long-ranging double-keeled globotruncanids are also present in varying abundance but single-keeled forms occur rarely and sporadically. Identification of the stage and zonal boundaries for the studied geologic interval have been achieved through biostratigraphic analyses of closely spaced samples. Three planktonic foraminiferal biozones were identified, namely; in stratigraphic order, the Heterohelix rajagopalani, Contusotruncana contusa and Abathomphalus mayaroensis Zones. In Hole 762C, a Transitional Realm with Austral influences is defined for the latest Campanian to Maastrichtian, as shown by the high relative abundance of fauna characteristic of Transitional and Austral Realms. Austral endemic species such as Archaeoglobigerina australis Huber and Hedbergella sliteri Huber were found in the samples studied but Globigerinelloides impensus Sliter andA rchaeoglobigerina mateola Huber are conspicuously absent. From the latest Campanian to middle Maastrichtian, cooler parts of the Transitional Realm prevailed. A slight warming trend is assumed towards the end of the middle Maastrichtian because the faunas contain more species indicative of warm water conditions. The late Maastrichtian also appears to have been warmer than the latest Campanian-middle Maastrichtian. This conclusion is based on the high diversity and equitability values and recognition of some thermophilic taxa. A Tethyan influence is inferred for the latest Maastrichtian on the basis of an increase of planktonic foraminiferal species diversity and occurrences of several keeled taxa.

Calcareous nannofossils in Pliocene and Quaternary sediments of ODP Leg 117 holes

A total of 21 calcareous nannofossil datums was found in the upper Pliocene and Quaternary sediments recovered from the ocean floor of the North Atlantic during DSDP Leg 94. These datums were correlated to magnetostratigraphy, and ages were estimated by interpolation between magnetic reversals. Calcareous nannofossil assemblages from 549 samples recovered during ODP Leg 117 were studied in order to estimate the age of the sediments of Sites 720, 721, 722, and 731 drilled at the Indus Fan and the Owen Ridge in the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean. We also showed that the datums above mentioned can be traced into the Indian Ocean. Two new species, namely Helicosphaera omanica and Reticulofenestra ampla, are described.

[al-Qurʼān, late 8th century?].

Fragment from an early ʻAbbāsid Qurʼān on parchment dyed orange-red (compare cat.11, p.58 in Déroche, The Abbasid tradition, Nasser D. Khalili collection of Islamic art, v.1 and Metropolitan Museum of Art accession nos. 40.164.1a and 40.164.1b) carrying Sūrat Hūd (11) verses 88 through 103 (11:88-11:103).

[al-Qurʼān, 9th or 10th century].

Fragment from an Early ʿAbbāsid Qur’ān carrying final words of Sūrat al-Mulk (67) verse 23 through opening word of Sūrat al-Qalam (68) verse 19.

De Nola ; opusculum, distinctum, plenum, clarum, doctum, pulcrum, verum, graue, varium & vtile.

Corrigenda: B3-B4r. Register: B4r.

Ta'ri¯j Mujtasar al-duwal = Historia compendiosa dynastiarum /

Supplementum Historiae dynastiarum in quo orientalis series ..., con port. propia, 368 p.

Literatur-blatt für orientalische Philologie.

Mode of access: Internet.

Beschreibung von Ostfriesland v.J. 1530.

Inserted in "Die Beschreibung Ostfrieslands von Henricus Ubbius vom Jahre 1530, uebersetzt von Dr. Ohling." ([22] p.)

Gulielmi Pisonis, medici amstelaedamensis, De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim ...

Contiene: Gulielmi Pisonis ... I. De Aëribus, aquis, & locis, II. De natura & cura morborum,Occidentali Indiae, imprimis Brasiliae, familiarum, III. De animalibus, aquatilibus, volatilibus, & terrestribus, edulibus, IV. De arboribus, fructibus, & herbis medicis atque alimentariis, nascentibus in Brasilia & regiones vicinis, V. De noxiis & venenatis, eorumque antidotis ... VII. Mantissa aromatica &c. posita post Bontii tractatus -- Georgii Margravii de Liepstadt I. Tractatus topographicus, & meteorologicus Brasiliae, cum eclipsis solaris, II. Commetariu de brasiliensium & chilensium indole & lingua &c.: 39 p. -- Iacobi Bontii ... Historiae Naturalis & Medicae Indiae Orientalis libri sex ... Commentarii quos auctor, morte en Indiis praeventus, indigestos reliquit a Gulielmo Pisone: 226, [2] p.

Illustrations of northern antiquities, from the earlier Tentonie and Scandinavian romances; being an abstract of the Book of heroes, and Nibelungen lay; with translation of metrical tales, from the Old German, Danish, Swedish, and Icelandie languages; with notes and dissertations.

Abstract of the Eyrbiggiasaga; being the early annals of that district of Iecland lying around the promontory called Snæfells, by W. S. [i.e. Sir Walter Scott] Glossary, by R. Jamieson.