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    The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The library was part...
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  • Gulbenkian Foundation: Gulbenkian Prize winners - Past editions "Biblioteca de Alexandria distinguida com o Prémio Calouste Gulbenkian 2013" (in Portuguese)...
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    The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Latin, 'Library of Alexandria'; Arabic: مكتبة الإسكندرية, romanized: Maktabat al-’Iskandariyya, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation:...
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    Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 62 Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 64 Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 82 Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana...
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    pān), a concept that is related to Hermeticism. Stephen of Alexandria wrote a work called De Chrysopoeia. Chrysopoeia is also the title of a 1515 poem...
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    de Basilio II". Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Gr. 1613; libro de estudios con ocasión de la edición facsímil.' Biblioteca Apostolica...
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    Alexandrinus) Naples, Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele III, 1 B 18 (Old Testament fragment) Garima Gospel 2 Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat....
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    The Marciana Library or Library of Saint Mark (Italian: Biblioteca Marciana, but in historical documents commonly referred to as the Libreria pubblica...
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    Serapis (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    renowned serapeum was in Alexandria. There is evidence that the cult of Serapis existed before the Ptolemies came to power in Alexandria: a temple of Serapis...
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  • Lisbon, Portugal Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago, Chile Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, Spain Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisbon,...
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  • Hephaestion, of which a summary outline has been preserved in Photius' Biblioteca (cod. 190), who observed sarcastically of its credulous author that he...
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    JSTOR 27940531 – via Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. San José Lera, Javier. "El autor: Cronología". Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (in...
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    Brazileira (in Brazilian Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro. 1 July 1998. Retrieved 29 June 2022 – via Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil. Saunders 2009, p. 76. "Santa...
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  • A Library Burning (category Library of Alexandria)
    biblioteca em fogo) is an oil on canvas painting by the Portuguese artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, created in 1974. It is held at the Centro de Arte...
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  • Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Jordanes: The origin and deeds of the Getae (Historia De Getarum) or origin of the Goths, from manuscripts in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana...
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    Jews living in the Ptolemaic Kingdom, centred on the large community in Alexandria, probably in the early or middle part of the third century BCE. The remaining...
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    by Roland Hamilton from the holograph manuscript in the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina de Sevilla) University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, ISBN 978-0-292-73025-0...
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  • Letter of Aristeas (category Library of Alexandria)
    pseudepigraphical. The letter is the earliest text to mention the Library of Alexandria. Josephus, who paraphrases about two-fifths of the letter, ascribes it...
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    September it had its own page at the OCLC website. The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) joined the project on 5 October 2007. The project transitioned...
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    AH/1161–62 CE); Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Sbath 265 (583 AH/1187 CE); Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Arabe 3924 (584 AH/1188...
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    Alchemy (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    generally be traced to ancient and Hellenistic Egypt, where the city of Alexandria was a center of alchemical knowledge, and retained its pre-eminence through...
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    Johannine Comma (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    include the Comma Johanneum in fact omit it. For example, Clement of Alexandria's (c. 200) quotation of 1 John 5:8 does not include the Comma. Among the...
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  • °792 de la Biblioteca de escritores baleares de Juan Serra Busquets Archived 2007-07-01 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed July 15, 2007. Biblioteca Virtual...
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    the Doge's Palace on the east and Jacopo Sansovino's Biblioteca (Library) which holds the Biblioteca Marciana on the west. At the corner near the campanile...
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    Archivo General de la Universidad Complutense" (PDF). Neurosciences and History. 1 (4): 170. "La herencia de la universidad medieval". Biblioteca Histórica...
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    Livorno (redirect from Biblioteca Labronica)
    di storia naturale del Mediterraneo, and cultural institutions as the Biblioteca Labronica F.D. Guerrazzi and others in Neoclassical style as Cisternone...
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    siglo XIV". Anuario de Estudios Medievales (in Spanish) (7). ISSN 0066-5061. Picatoste, Felipe (1891). Apuntes para una biblioteca científica española...
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    "Biblioteca Palafoxiana" (PDF). UNESCO. Retrieved 27 April 2012. Brescia, Michael M. (July 2004). "Liturgical Expressions of Episcopal Power: Juan de Palafox...
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    distillation apparatus. Cleopatra the Alchemist appears to have been active in Alexandria in the 3rd century or 4th century A.D. She is associated with the school...
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  • Stromata (category Works by Clement of Alexandria)
    (Στρωματεῖς, "Patchwork," i.e., Miscellanies), attributed to Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – c. 215), is the third of a trilogy of works regarding the Christian...
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