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Oracle Bone, Or 7694/1580
An inscribed oracle bone (jia gu 甲骨) from the Couling-Chalfant collection at the British Library. Oracle bones were animal bones, usually ox shoulder bones or the underside of turtle shells, used for divination rituals in ancient China. Dating to the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – 1050 BC), they bear the...British Library
oracle bone, Chinese, 3D model, and Shang Dynasty
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Pentateuch, Add MS 4709
Pentateuch with the Five Scrolls, Psalms, Job and the Haftarot. Italy, 1486. Modelled for the British Library’s Hebrew Manuscript Digitisation Project, funded by The Polonsky Foundation. Modelling: Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert Special thanks to Kristin Phelps. For the entire manuscript, visit: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Add_MS_4709British Library
manuscript, Bible, 3D model, Hebrew, Pentateuch, and Torah
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Oracle Bone, Or 7694/1595
An inscribed oracle bone (jia gu 甲骨) from the Couling-Chalfant collection at the British Library. Oracle bones were animal bones, usually ox shoulder bones or the underside of turtle shells, used for divination rituals in ancient China. Dating to the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – 1050 BC), they bear the...British Library
oracle bone, Chinese, 3D model, and Shang Dynasty
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Lion Model, Foster 872
Lion - Foster 872 A model of a lion. By Gangaram, 1790. Wax, possibly dhuna, the aromatic gum of the shal tree (Shorea robusta), painted; size of wooden base: 20.5 x 9.75 x 2cm; animal 12.5cm at highest point of mane. F872 Our lion also featured on a blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/2014/08/the-maratha-artist-gangaram-cintaman-tambat.htmlBritish Library
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Esther Scroll, Add MS 11831
Esther scroll (Megilat Ester) in an ivory case. Unknown origin, 17th century. Modelled for the British Library’s Hebrew Manuscript Digitisation Project, funded by The Polonsky Foundation. Modelling: Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert Special thanks to Kristin Phelps, Thomas Flynn and Ilana Tahan. Model is an edited approximation of the actual object For the...British Library
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Dataset
UK Doctoral Theses (EThOS) Abstracts and Metadata - 01/03/2015. XLS.
This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version: https://doi.org/10.22021/ETHOSCSV201810 If you require access to an earlier version, please email openaccess@bl.uk, including the dataset title, date, and DOI in your request. The data in this collection comprises the bibliographic metadata for all UK doctoral theses listed in EThOS, the UK's national thesis service. We...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
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al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī (Add MS 23494)
This dataset is a PDF file containing the images and transcription the manuscript titled al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī الدرّ النقيّ في فنّ الموسيقي by Aḥmad ibn 'Abd al-Raḥmān al-Mawṣilī أحمد بن عبد الرحمن الموصلي. The manuscript was digitised through the British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership, and made available through...British Library ; Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
transcription, Arabic, and OCR
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Dataset
UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version (5): https://doi.org/10.23636/1344 If you require access to an earlier version, please email openaccess@bl.uk, including the dataset title, date, and DOI in your request. The data in this collection comprises the bibliographic metadata for all UK doctoral theses listed in EThOS,...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
higher education, ethos, dissertations, HE, research, PhD, doctoral, student, UK, theses, and thesis
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Dataset
Books related to theatre derived from the Digitised 19th Century Books dataset
A dataset derived from the Digitised 19th Century Books dataset which contains books pertaining to theatre written in English. The dataset of 841 items was created by filtering by keywords which are related to different genre of play including Drama, Act, Scene, Play, Comedy, Farce, Pantomime, Tragedy and Shakespeare and...British Library ; British Library Labs
act, genre, books, metadata, bibliographic, theatre, and play
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Books related to India from the Digitised 19th Century Books dataset
A dataset which is derived from the Digitised 19th Century books dataset focusing on books related to India. The dataset was created by refining the book title field using keywords related to names used for India during the period, places within India, cultural terms such as 'Hindu' and another term...British Library ; British Library Labs
books, metadata, bibliographic, and India