Synopsis of the Contents of the British MuseumCox and Baylis, no.75, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, 1814 - 126 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 7 - Forty-one volumes, containing the decisions of the commissioners for settling the city estates after the fire of London ; presented by Thomas Cowper, Esq.
الصفحة 1 - On entering the gate of the Museum, a spacious quadrangle presents itself with an Ionic colonnade on the south side, and the main building on the north. The building measures 216 feet in length, and 57 in height to the top of the cornice.
الصفحة 119 - The second head, comprising modem coins, consists of Anglo-Saxon, English, Anglo-Gallic, Scotch, and Irish coins, and likewise the coins of foreign nations. This class is arranged according to the respective countries to which the coins belong, those of each country being kept separate. The third head, which comprises a class considerably more modern than either of those which precede it, consists of medals struck in our own country, and of those which have been struck abroad. These are arranged...
الصفحة 118 - Greek coins are arranged in geographical order, and include all those struck with Greek characters., in Greece, or elsewhere, by kings, states, or cities, which were independent of the Romans. With this class are placed likewise the coins of free states and cities, which made use of either the Etruscan, Roman, Punic, Spanish, or other characters. The Roman coins are placed, as far as it can be ascertained, in chronological order.
الصفحة 73 - I. No. 40. A terracotta statue of a Muse resting her left arm upon a pile of writing tablets, which are placed upon a square column. The head is gone. This figure, in its present state, is three feet five inches high; and probably represents Calliope, whose office was to note down the worthy actions of the living, as it was Clio's to celebrate those of departed heroes. " Carmina Calliope libris heroica mandat.
الصفحة ix - ... and cabinets having been completed, and the collections removed thither, and properly distributed and arranged, the Museum was at length opened for study and public inspection on the 15th...
الصفحة xxxiv - Two years later a greater advance appears to have been made, for we then find that "the Museum is open for public inspection on the Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in every week (the usual vacations excepted), from ten till four o'clock ; and all persons of decent appearance who apply between the hours of ten and two are immediately admitted, and may tarry in the apartments or the Gallery of Antiquities without any limitation of time, except the shutting of the house at four o'clock.
الصفحة x - In 1757 His Majesty George II., " fully impressed with a conviction of the utility of this Institution," by instrument under the Great Seal, added the Library of Printed Books and Manuscripts, which had been gradually collected by the Sovereigns of these realms from Henry VII. down to William III. Rich in the prevailing literature of different periods, and including, with others, the libraries of Archbishop Cranmer and of Isaac Casaubon, this library also contains the venerable Alexandrian Codex...
الصفحة 40 - French army : this mass, which weighed 270 lb., was preserved in the Cathedral of Ensisheim till the beginning of the French Revolution, when it was conveyed to the public library of Colmar ; — one of the many stones which fell (July 3rd, 1753) at Plaun, in the circle of Bechin, Bohemia, and which contain a great proportion of attractable iron ; — specimens of those that were seen to fall at Barbotan, at Roquefort, and at Juliac, July 24th, 1790 ; — one of a dozen of stones of various weights...
الصفحة 107 - Egypt, and another in the Greek language. These inscriptions record the services which Ptolemy the Fifth had rendered his country, and were engraved by order of the high priests when they were assembled at Memphis, for the purpose of investing him with the royal prerogative.