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    Bibliothek — "HAB"), in Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, known also as Bibliotheca Augusta, is a library of international importance for its collection from...
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    Augustus instituted a number of government reforms, and founded the Bibliotheca Augusta (now the Herzog August Bibliothek). After the 1648 Peace of Westphalia...
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    and founded the Ducal Library (Herzogliche Bibliothek, the later Bibliotheca Augusta) two years later. During the Thirty Years' War, Danish troops under...
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    1600, European collections completely overtook those in China. The Bibliotheca Augusta numbered 60,000 volumes in 1649 and surged to 120,000 in 1666. In...
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    campaign was led by Terentius Varro, who then founded the Roman colony of Augusta Praetoria Salassorum, housing 3,000 retired veterans. After 11 BC Aosta...
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    Schürmann, and Johann Adolph Hasse. He significantly extended the Bibliotheca Augusta, a library founded by his father. He hired the philosopher Leibniz...
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    1690 Leibniz was appointed as privy-councilor and librarian of the Bibliotheca Augusta at Wolfenbüttel. It was an extensive library with at least 25,946...
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    Residence at Wolfenbüttel, was the founder of a barock theatre and the Bibliotheca Augusta. Frederick IV 28 August 1574 1636–1648 10 December 1648 Lüneburg...
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    He also hired Gotthold Ephraim Lessing as the librarian for the Bibliotheca Augusta, the ducal library. Lorenz Heister of the University of Helmstedt...
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    library, now the Herzog August Library (Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Bibliotheca Augusta), in Wolfenbüttel under the commission of the Duke of Brunswick....
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    Residence at Wolfenbüttel, was the founder of a barock theatre and the Bibliotheca Augusta. Frederick IV 28 August 1574 1636–1648 10 December 1648 Lüneburg...
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    Residence at Wolfenbüttel, was the founder of a barock theatre and the Bibliotheca Augusta 1666–1704 Rudolf Augustus (1627–1704) according to reports dating...
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    (BGE/IHR), Brussels (Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique), Wolfenbüttel (Bibliotheca Augusta), Chicago (Newberry Library) and Madison (Institute for Research...
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    2011-07-22. Retrieved 2010-02-06. Henning, Hans (1913). Der Wulfila der Bibliotheca Augusta zu Wolfenbüttel (Codex Carolinus). Hamburg: E. Behrens. Knittel,...
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    Emily (2020). The Fall of the House of Byron. John Murray. p. 281. "Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: A Catalogue..." Brand, Emily (2020). The Fall of the House...
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  • conserved in the Herzog August Bibliothek (the library also known as Bibliotheca Augusta) in Wolfenbüttel. One copy likely survived because two years after...
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    childhood, and possibly Elizabeth Medora Leigh, daughter of his half-sister Augusta Leigh. George Gordon Byron was born on 22 January 1788, on Holles Street...
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  • Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, 1.61. Pomponius Mela, Chorographia, 1.56. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 36.19. Historia Augusta, "Septimius...
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    and Manx. Clarendon Press. Historia Augusta, Vita Alex. Sev. 60.6 Historia Augusta, Vit. Aurel. 44,3 Historia Augusta. Vita Car. Numer. Carin. 14 Piggott...
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    De re coquinaria Look up apicius in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bibliotheca Augustana: De Re Coquinaria Libri Decem Mary Ella Milham's edition, nicely...
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    codices. (The author of the Life of Probus mentions that part of the Bibliotheca Ulpia, was located in the Forum of Trajan, and part within the Baths...
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  • Veterum Scriptorum Monumenta, I (Rouen, 1700); then by Andrea Gallandi, Bibliotheca veterum Patrum, X (Venice, 1774), 185–96, reprinted by J.P. Migne in...
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    Neighbours. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-34959-8. Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica. 4.75.3. Virgil. Aeneid. 6.637-678. This "Archeological plan...
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    See also Antonio Niere, Bibliotheca Sanctorum, op.cit. pp. 354–8; ASS Oct XIII 335-48 ASS June V, 80-3; Daniele, Bibliotheca Sanctorum, op.cit. I, 721)...
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    CT: Greenwood Press. pp. 27–28. ISBN 0313327076. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, xvi. 36, 45; Demosthenes, Speeches, "On the liberty of the Rhodians"...
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    the recent past. Lucian, Remarks to an illiterate book-lover. Photius, Bibliotheca, states that there were eight books. George Long, (1890), The Discourses...
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  • chrysaspides (i.e. "golden shields"). Arrian Anabasis 7.11.3 Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, xvii. 57, 58, 59, xviii. 63, xix. 12, 41, 43, 48; Curtius Rufus, Historiae...
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  • origins. Barreto's manuscript was used by Diogo Barbosa Machado in his Bibliotheca Luzitana, published in Lisbon by Ignacio Rodrigues in 1752. Schumann...
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  • Bough by Sir James George Frazer (1890) Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Augusta Gregory (1904) The Hero with a Thousand Faces - by Joseph Campbell (1949)...
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    Remains of Northern and Eastern France: A Guidebook." Page 341. Citing "Bibliotheca Historica," 5.28, 1-3. Gaius Petronius, "Satyricon", 1st century AD,...
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