A practical guide to the Library of Congress paintings : with 92 key pictures and other illustrations and the library quotations.

"This 'Practical guide' is a reprint of the chapter on 'The Library of Congress' in the Washington standard guide"--Title-page verso.

The principles of interior decoration /

Mode of access: Internet.

Sketches, graphic and descriptive, &c. for a history of the decorative painting applied to English architecture during the middle ages.

Binder's title: History of decorative painting.

[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).

Chasse of Champagnat, rear view, main plaque: lion of Mark; foliate decoration with fantasic beasts with human head; ox of Luke; roof plaque: angel, foliate decoration, eagle of John; angel view

4 7/8 in.x 7 7/16 in.x 3 11/32 in.; copper, engraved and gilt; champlevé ename on wood core

Bottle

Glass, Islamic, Umayyad; 7 59/64 in.x 3 1/4 in.; lass, bluish; blown, applied blue decoration

Tomb, excavated artifact, Dish with carved decoration

Jiangsu. Huaiyin. Gaozhuang; 2 23/64 in. x 1 ft. 8 5/64 in.; bronze

Bowl with Kufic inscription and tree motif

Glass, Islamic, Fatamid; 4 7/32 in. x 6 1/32 in.; blown glass and stained glass with copper and silver stains

Animal Flask

Glass, Islamic, Umayyad; 4 3/8 in.x 3 17/64 in.x 1 27/32 in.; glass, amber-colored; blown, applied decoration

Tile

Tiles, Islamic, Ilkhanid; 1 ft. 23/64 in.x 1 ft. 19/32 in.x 2 3/32 in.; molded fritware overglaze luster and inglaze painted decoration

Tiles

Tiles, Islamic, Ilkhanid; D: 7 63/64 in. (star tiles); 8 11/32 in. x 8 17/64 in. (cross tiles); fritware with moulded design and lustre decoration

Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in the Dark Palace on Saturday", Folio 23v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizam

Manuscript, Islamic, Timurid; 8 1/2 in.x 4 39/64 in. (image); ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Chasse of Champagnat, rear view, main plaque: lion of Mark; foliate decoration with fantasic beasts with human head; ox of Luke; roof plaque: angel, foliate decoration, eagle of John

4 7/8 in.x 7 7/16 in.x 3 11/32 in.; copper, engraved and gilt; champlevé ename on wood core

Fruit and vegetable arrangements,

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Legal maxis in Urdu, illustrated and explained with special reference to the laws in force in British India, the Hindu and the Mahomedan laws, and precedents of the high courts and Privy council,

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