Goldschmidt family; Hanover 1828-1842

Marriage contract; testament; Schutzbrief.

Account of the estate of Salmen Abt, Melsungen, Kur-Hessen 1829-1842

Bound photocopies of various documents, describing the estate of Solomon Abt in the town of Melsungen in Hesse, Germany. Included are the copies of a marriage contract between Solomon Abt and Vogel Tebler; extensive lists of all of Solomon Abt’s possession when he died in 1829; correspondence of his heirs and the guardians of his children, as well as various court documents.

Hebrew hymns and prayers after an earthquake, during the reign of George II (1727-1760)

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Der Orden Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste von 1842 bis 1983.

A brochure, listing all members of the order, 1842-1983. A typescript adds members until 1985 and lists Jewish members, 1842-1981.

Il canto sospeso de Luigi Nono

This article explains how Nono's Il canto sospeso (1956), for solo voices, choir and orchestra, is structured in a logic of counterbalances for each musical action, overlapping a harmonic or ‘intuitive’ geometry, with a contrasting or ‘anti-intuitive’ plot. Unlike the typical relationships with the golden ratio, found in many musical examples in which it appears ‘naturally’ (see Tatlow 2001), intervals in the prime numbers series here are perceived as ‘counter-rhythm’; as a form of a counterintuitive distribution, or, as Jameson (2003:vii) suggests, as “a very irregular way” of apparent distribution.

Sobre el embrión humano y la cuestión de la personeidad : un argumento de Luigi Ferrajoli y su discusión

Resumen: El texto analiza las afirmaciones defendidas sobre el estatuto entitativo del embrión y de la solución ética a la cuestión de la legitimidad del aborto provocado, en un trabajo del jurista y pensador italiano, Luigi Ferrajoli, defensor de lo que puede denominarse el bioderecho “liberal”, con una posición decisivamente tomada en favor de la eticidad del aborto. Se advierte que cada uno de sus argumentos parte de una premisa: considerar las afirmaciones de la Iglesia Católica como inexorablemente erróneas, especialmente en lo atinente a la relación entre moral y derecho. La consecuencia más grave de este tipo de argumentación es la deriva anti-humanista del pensamiento contemporáneo con la consiguiente pérdida de toda racionalidad lógica.

História do movimento político, que no anno de 1842 teve lugar na provincia de Minas Geraes

José Antonio Marinho nasceu em Minas Gerais, em 1803, e morreu no Rio de Janeiro, em 1853. Em 1823, de passagem pela Bahia, envolveu-se nas lutas políticas daquele ano. Seguiu depois para Pernambuco, onde tomou parte, em 1824, na Confederação do Equador. Entrou para o Seminário de Olinda, mas denúncias de sua participação nos acontecimentos de 1824 impediram sua ordenação. Voltou, então, para Minas Gerais e conseguiu concluir sua formação sacerdotal. Ordenado em 1829, voltou às lides políticas, tornando-se advogado, jornalista e deputado provincial. Em 1836m elegeu-se deputado-geral por Minas Gerais, em 1842, tomou parte na Revolução Liberal, da qual foi primeiro historiador. Apesar de ter participado dos acontecimentos que historiou, tendo sido, por isso, acusado de parcial, o autor primou “pela verdade da exposição dos fatos”, como disse o Barão Homem de Melo. Com a autoridade de historiador da Revolução Liberal de 1842, Aluísio de Almeida afirmou que, sem a Historia do movimento politico, que no anno de 1842 teve lugar na Provincia de Minas Geraes, seria impossível escrever sobre aquele movimento. Obra rara, valorizada por treze litografias, que Aluísio de Almeida considera, com razão, “preciosas” : nove retratos, quatro vistas e uma planta, estas desdobradas. As litografias do primeiro volume se constituem de retratos do autor e de J. Feliciano, J. P. Dias de Carvalho e T. B. Ottoni, vistas da Praça de Barbacena, da Vila de Queluz e do Arraial da Lagoa Santa e planta do Arraial de Santa Luzia e suas imediações; e as do segundo volume de retratos de R. T. d’Aguiar, D.J. C. de Mendonça Franco, J. G. Teixeira de Carvalho, Diogo Antônio Feijó e Manuel Alves Branco e vista de Sabará.

Collecção das Leis do Imperio do Brasil de 1842

Parte 1 - Decisões

A new distributional record of Astropecten polyacanthus Muller and Troschel, 1842 (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from the coastal waters of Pakistan

Previously an asteroid starfish Astropecten indicus has been described by Tahera (1996), and another species of the genus Astropecten i.e. A. polyacanthus Muller and Troschel, 1842 has been collected from the subtidal region of a sandy shore of Clifton (24°47'42"N 66°59'6"E), Karachi. The latter species is here reported for the first time from the Pakistan coast of the northern Arabian Sea and fills the gap in the known distribution. The species is briefly described and illustrated.

'Dare the boist'rous main': the role of the Belfast Newsletter in the process of emigration from Ulster to North America 1760-1800

Before the mass migrations from Ireland in the nineteenth century, earlier waves of migration in the eighteenth century saw significant numbers of people leave Ireland, predominantly from Ulster, to settle in North America. This article, using as its principal data source the Belfast News Letter ( BNL), its letters, advertisements and reports, focuses firstly on reconstructing the late eighteenth-century migration process and voyage, highlighting the barriers represented by the Atlantic Ocean. In addition to the challenges of the sea, there were problems with the ships, the ever-present danger of disease and also threats from other vessels, from privateers to press gangs. The voyage was recognized as a ‘universal dread’, and the risks taken to ‘dare the boist’rous main’ were perhaps not minimized in the pages of the BNL, whose editorial stance was antipathetic to the migration for the potential harm it caused to Ulster by removing so many of its industrious young. The second part of this article goes on to consider the newspaper’s and others’ vested interests in the emigration process, demonstrates how these were manifested in the press and sets the coverage of this very significant early emigration flow within the context of contemporary religious and colonial discourses at a period of very lively transatlantic interactions.

Luigi Bernabò Brea (1910-1999)

Malone, C.A.T. and S.K.F. Stoddart,

Letter, Cedar Hill, NC, to Oliver Hawes Spencer, Cheraw, SC, 1842 November 3

This letter is to O. H. Spencer.