Language Collection (page 3)

Glossary on a trench map of NW France, WW1
Glossary on the back of a trench map of NW France, for the Peronne area, including Bouchavesnes, sheet 62c NW, dated 20 November 1916

Share certificate and coupons, Kilo-Moto Goldmines
Share certificate and dividend coupons, Kilo-Moto Goldmines, in the Belgian Congo. Date: 1944

Queen Katherine of France, by Laurence Alma-Tadema
Queen [Princess] Katherine of France, by Laurence Alma-Tadema, receiving a lesson in the English language from her Nurse before meeting King Henry V of England (from Henry V). 1888

Pere Serafi (1510-1567). Catalan painter and poet. Poetical Works. Barcelona, Edited by engraver Joseph Torner, 1840. Engraving. Colored

Sign in four languages, Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany
Sign in four languages near the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany -- You are leaving the American Sector. Date: 1960s

Stele depicting offerers. Egypt
Egyptian Art. New Empire. Stele depicting offerers. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Via Dolorosa street sign. Jerusalem. Israel
Israel. Jerusalem. Via Dolorosa. Street of Old City, which traditionally Jesus walked carrying the cross, way to his crucifixion. Street sign

Isabel de Villena (1430-1490). Female writer. Vita Christi
Isabel de Villena (1430-1490). Female writer in the Catalan language. Vita Christi (Christs Life), 1527. Incunable. Spain

Bonaventura Carles Aribau (1798-1862). Sculpture by Manel Fu
Bonaventura Carles Aribau (1798-1862). Catalan writer, politician and economist. Sculpture of Aribau by Manel Fuxa, 1884. Ciutadella Park. Barcelona. Spain

Antonio Nebrija (1441-1522). Spanish scholar, historian, teacher and poet. Writing a grammar of the Castilian language. Engraving. Colored

Syria. Maloula. Town built into the rugged mountainside. Village where Western Aramaic is still spoken. Near East. Photo before Syrian Civil War

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 Bc-8 Bc). Known as Horace. Roman lyric poet. Opera. Ed. Venice, 1727. Episcopal Library. Barcelona. Spain

Egyptian hieroglyph engraved in stone. National Archaeologic
Egyptian art. Detail of a hieroglyph. Engraved in stone. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain

Greece. Sparta. Inscription on the stone. Greek writing. Old Theater. Peloponnese

Paradise Lost by John Milton (1608-1674)
John Milton (1608-1674). English poet. Paradise Lost, 1667. Title cover of an edition printed in London, 1727. Library of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain

The Rosetta Stone. Hieroglyphic scripture
The Rosetta Stone. Fragment of a black granite stele with an inscription in different languages A?a?A?a?of a decree of Ptolemy V Epiphanes king. Hieroglyphic scripture. Detail. Ptolemaic era. 196 BC

The Rosetta Stone. Demotic scripture
The Rosetta Stone. Fragment of a black granite stele with an inscription in different languages A?a?A?a?of a decree of Ptolemy V Epiphanes king. Ptolemaic era. 196 BC. Detail. Demotic scripture

Tombstone of Neferseshempepy. Egypt
Tombstone of Neferseshempepy, depicted with a scepter and staff with a hieroglyphic inscription. Limestone. 2150 BC. Early Dynastic or Old Kingdom. From Dendera. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Mycenaean art. Greece. Clay tablet with inscriptions on Mycenaean Linear B script. National Archaeological Museum. Athens

Nebrija, Elio Antonio de (1441-1522). Spanish Humanist. Colored engraving

The Archangel Gabriel gives the Qur an to Muhammad on Mount
Revelation of Tanail. The Archangel Gabriel gives the Qur an to Muhammad on Mount Hira during a battle. Ottoman miniature. 15th century. Topkapi Museum. Istanbul. Turkey

The Seven Liberal Arts. Rhetoric. Miniature of the thirteenth century where a teacher is teaching a class. Chateau de Chantilly. France

Euclid. Elementum. Page of the Book of Geometry
Euclid (first half 3rd century BC). Greek mathematician, founder of the School of Alexandria. Elementum. Page of the Book of Geometry, in an edition of 1557, published in Paris

Hieroglyph. Temple of Hatshepsut. Deir el-Bahari. Egypt
Hieroglyph. Temple of Hatshepsut. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Deir el-Bahari. Egypt

Egyptian hieroglyph shaped like an eagle
Hieroglyphic writing. EGYPT. Detail of a wall of the first court of Ramses II decorated with a drawing hieroglyph shaped like an eagle. TEMPLE OF LUXOR. Dynasty XIX. (1320-1200 B.C.). New Empire

Clay tablet inscribed with mycenaean Linear B script. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

Le Mot Juste: WWI cartoon by H. M. Bateman
" Le Mot Juste: A careful and economical person. Much given to niceness of expression. Trying to decide upon which adjective to risk his brown." This cartoon satirises how the British press

WW1 recruitment poster, Attest Now (Welsh version)
WW1 recruitment poster (Welsh version), To starred or badged single men or single men in reserved occupations, Attest Now. Date: circa 1916

Second Spanish Republic. Escola nova, poble lliure (new school, free people). Poster in Catalan by Carme Millࠩ Tersol (-1999)

ISOCRATES (436-338 BC). Ancient Greek rhetorician and one of the ten Attic orators. From the book Pinacotheca imaginum illustrium by Gian Vittorio de Rossi (1577-1647). Engraving. SPAIN

Japan - A group of three Ainos, the aborigines
Lantern slide of a group of three Ainos, the aborigines. The Ainu (also called Aynu, Aino and in historical texts Ezo), are indigenous people or groups in Japan and Russia

Russian Propaganda postcard - German Cockroaches
" The Prussians" A Russian propaganda postcard from WWI era, depictng Russian soldiers driving out the German menace, depicted as cockroaches

Shea butter production - Senegal
Shea butter preparation, baking shea tree nuts - pounding and grinding, Senegal, West Africa. The French name karite (as detailed on this card) comes from ghariti

Japanese Story-Telling
A Japanese grandmother tells traditional tales to a group of children gathered round the brazier, laying aside their kites, dolls and tops. Date: 1899

Sign Language Card
DACTYLOLOGIE - manual alphabet for deaf-mutes. Date: late 19th century

Fuchsia / Language of Flowers
Fuchsia personified

Heligoland Island
Heligoland - a small German archipelago in the North Sea. Formerly Danish and British possessions, the islands (population 1)

Language of Flowers Card
The red rose says I am burning for you ! but the roses thorny stem says No !

Heraldry / Blazon
Blazon: showing elements from which coats of arms are composed including badge shape, colours, patterns & devices & how the badge is sub-divided and named

Woman in smart summer suit pushing a perambulator
Woman in smart summer suit pushing her baby in a very fine perambulator. Date: circa 1930s

Plastic card, Dollar Savings Bank, New York City, USA
Plastic card, Dollar Savings Bank, Third Avenue near 148th Street, New York City, USA -- one one side a calendar for the year, on the reverse details of opening times and services offered. Date: 1916

Lyc饠Franco-Libanais in Beirut (Beyrouth), Lebanon
Grand Lyc饠 Franco-Libanais (GLFL) on the left, founded in 1909 by the Mission laﱵ e fran硩 se (French lay (or secular) mission) in Rue de Damas in Beirut (Beyrouth), Lebanon

Tour of the Colonies - Quebec Illuminations - Royal Party watching illuminations at sea. Part of Box 246 Boswell collection - Tour of the Colonies. Quebec is a province in east-central Canada

The Channel Islands - St Peters pont - St Peters Port from Harbour. Part of Box 234 Boswell Collection - The Channel Islands Saint Peter Port is the capital of Guernsey as well as the main port

Joan Rois de Corella (1435-1497). Valencian poet and humanist. Engraving that belongs to his work Psalter, printed in Venice in 1490 by Johan Bertezog. Colored

Practical exercises in fencing. Engraving. 19th century. Colored

Body language -- a group of Italian boys. Date: circa 1970s

Cavendish Road School for Deaf, Balham - Language Lesson
The London School Boards Cavendish Road School for Deaf, Balham - a language lesson accompanies a childrens tea party. Date: early 1900s

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