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Celestial Writing
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Mr. and Mrs. Homer Kripke West Orange New Jersey gift; to the Fogg Art Museum October 15 1965.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Kripke
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Anonymous, The culmination of Renaissance ingenuity and scientific achievement: Celestial sphere with traces of a mechanism. (c1540-c1550)
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The Constellation Cassiopeia (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from an Arabic manuscript of the Kitab Suwar al-Kawakib of al-Sufi
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Playing with a stone mosaic and a male portrait, partly in high relief.
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The Obituary Roll Of Lucy, First Prioress Of Hedingham
tituli 24 to 29
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tituli 24 to 29
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ove...
painting (gouache): ["Man At a Table Writing, with Servant"]
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A man sits at a long ornate green table, writing on a white scroll with a paintbrush. He wears a plum/brown robe with a dragon design in gold and white. He wears a string of pearls...