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Front Cover Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

The book has been bound in an older (printed) music manuscript.

The book did not fit on my older scanner, but now I am able to show the entire cover.

Keywords: page images, book covers, music, colour, typography, lettering, book covers

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Added: 2006-03-15

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Ornament The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

A printer’s ornament from the end of a chapter or section. This one shows a lyre or harp together with vine.

Keywords: ornaments, music, greyscale

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Added: 2004-06-15

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Music book and wreaths Famous Composers and their Music (1901)

Sheet music (score) with wreaths, perhaps of laurel leaves to signify victory; this is a detail from the musical border from the title page.

Keywords: music, sheet music, wreaths, xmas, christmas, page elements, ornaments, colour

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Added: 2010-11-14

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Musical Border Famous Composers and their Music (1901)

This musical border features Greek or Roman busts at the corners, musical scores, laurel wreaths, musical instruments including violins, trumpets and horns, and is printed mostly in green and black. I [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, musical instruments, music

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Added: 2010-11-14

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284.—The Harp, Accompanied by Other Instruments (cotton MS.). Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

[The Anglo-Saxons] put their own harp into the hands of the Royal Psalmist (Fig. 284) and indeed we see here King David on his throne, dressed as an Anglo-Saxon king. There’s also a violinist, a trump [...]

Keywords: royalty, people, musical instruments, music, christmas, religion, saxon england, greyscale

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Added: 2008-10-11

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Sculpture: Muse of Poetry Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

This full-page engraving is in the form of a three-dimensional sculpture: a mermaid sits in an alcove playing a musical instrument and petting a swan; she has a crown of flowers and long flowing hair. [...]

Keywords: sculpture, mythological figures, nudity, art, emblems, mermaids, birds, swans, musical instruments, poetry, music, greyscale

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Added: 2011-06-25

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Muse of Poetry, Unlabeled Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A version of the Muse of poetry sculpture with theGerman writing removed.

Keywords: sculpture, mythological figures, nudity, art, emblems, mermaids, birds, swans, musical instruments, poetry, music, cartouches, greyscale

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Added: 2011-06-25

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Two cherubs play flute and violin La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A detail from Fig. 51, two winged cherubs sit playing musical instruments, one a twin pipe and the other a bowed instrument like an early violin.

Keywords: music, cherubs, bare feet, nudity, romance, christmas, musical instruments, greyscale

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Added: 2012-12-25

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Cherub with Triangle La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A detail from Fig. 51, a winged cherubs sits playing a musical instrument, a triangle. He is naked, and his eyes glance to one side. He has a curl of hair.

Keywords: music, cherubs, bare feet, nudity, romance, christmas, musical instruments, angels, mythical creatures, greyscale

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Added: 2012-12-25

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62a.—Initial capital letter “A” from Dance of Death Alphabet Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This decorative initial letter “A”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein the Younger and dating from 1523. It features a skeleton banging a drum (or tabor) with a bone, and also p [...]

Keywords: lettera, initials, death, skeletons, music, musical instruments, spirit, greyscale

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Added: 2009-03-07

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When Stars Are In The Quiet Skies World’s Best Music (1900)

Sheet music for piano, a setting of Edward Bulwer (Lord Lytton)’s poem: 1 When Stars Are In The Quiet Skies     Then most I pine for thee;; Bend on me then thy tender eyes,     As stars look on the se [...]

Keywords: music, sheet music, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2006-10-24

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68b.—Printer’s Mark Detail: Angel Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol II.) (1881)

A trumpeting angel from a woodcut by Jost Amman, a detail from a trade mark for a printer.

Keywords: angels, music, wings, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2010-07-25

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