Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
An introduction to the skill of musick An introduction to the skill of musick Playford, John 282 p. : ports, music ; 24 cm OL125294W
The advancement of learning The advancement of learning Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning (full title: Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human) is a 1605 book by Francis Bacon. It inspired the taxonomic structure of the highly influenti… OL15403036W
Le livre des pénétrations métaphysiques = Le livre des pénétrations métaphysiques = Mollâ Sadrâ Shîrâzî,Corbin, Henry. Quʹest-ce que lʹêre? Cette question passe pour fonder la philosophie. Encore faut-il s'entendre sur le sens du mot "être ". L'essence des choses détermine-t-elle leur existence? Devons-nous affirmer,… OL19883478W
The English text of the Ancrene riwle, the 'Vernon' text The English text of the Ancrene riwle, the 'Vernon' text Bernhard Diensberg,Arne Zettersten "Ancrene Riwle (also known as Ancrene Wisse), a guide for anchoresses composed in the thirteenth century, served as a popular guide to spirituality and the religious life until the sixteenth century.… OL20649161W
Imitation of Christ Imitation of Christ Rev. William Rev. William Benham,William C. Creasy,Paul M. Bechtel,Michael Oakley,Ronald Arbuthnott Knox,Pierre Corneille,Rogers, Thomas,John Payne,Jérôme de Gonnelieu,Richard Whitford,Richard Challoner,Thomas Rogers,David Alexander MacLennan,Harold C. Gardiner,Aloysius Croft,Thomas à Kempis,Thomas Chalmers,Elder Mullan,Jon M. Sweeney,Challoner,Joseph N. Tylenda,Hal McElwaine Helms,George Hickes,Henry Parry Liddon,Richard Whitford,Sixtus V Pope,Paul Wesley Chilcote,Leo Sherley-Price,Valenti Angelo,Wilfrid Raynal,Edgar Daplyn,Henri Belleau,E. M. Blaiklock,Félicité Robert de Lamennais,Harold Bolton,Rev. William Benham,Richard Challoner,Félicité Robert De Lamennais Classic Christian devotional OL260847W
Dîwân Dîwân al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāğ SCOTT (copy 1) : The Hédi Bouraoui Collection in Maghrebian and Franco-Ontario Literatures is the gift of University Professor Emeritus Hédi Bouraoui. OL27965414W
Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette (Texts & Documents) Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette (Texts & Documents) Giovanni Battista Piranesi "The engraver and designer Giovanni Battista Piranesi published this lively three-part defense of Roman architectural "invention" in 1765, just as the "beautiful and noble simplicity" of ancient Gree… OL2827088W
Nineteenth-Century literature criticism Nineteenth-Century literature criticism Denise Evans Presents literary criticism on the works of nineteenth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines… OL28948656W
Headings on spiritual knowledge Headings on spiritual knowledge Isaac Bishop of Nineveh "Appearing for the first time in English, this volume contains a translation of the Kephalaia Gnostika, the first three chapters of the recently-discovered "Second Part" of the corpus of St Isaac of … OL31924556W
Geography Geography François Lasserre,Strabo The <b>*Geographica*</b> (Ancient Greek: Γεωγραφικά, Geōgraphiká), or <b>*Geography*</b>, is an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, consisting of 17 'books', written in Greek by Strabo, an educat… OL3822144W
Γοργίας Γοργίας Πλάτων There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is because his writings have set the schema that philosophy can be said to have followed ever since. Foll… OL51785W
Astrology in medieval manuscripts Astrology in medieval manuscripts Sophie Page "The art of predicting earthly events from the movements of the stars and planets exerts an enduring fascination. Medieval astrologers were sometimes feared as magicians, said to be in league with de… OL5879266W