The Secretum (Latin for 'hidden away') was a British Museum collection of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that held artefacts and images...
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Secretum may refer to: Secretum (book), a book by Petrarch Secretum (Monaldi & Sorti) [nl], a book by Monaldi & Sorti Secretum (British Museum), the collection...
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2006. The Secretum, or Cupboard 55, was a secret collection containing erotic objects at the British Museum in London. The Sex Machines Museum in Prague...
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Great), who according to a legend, reported in the medieval book entitled Secretum secretorum, was initiated into alchemy by his master, the philosopher Aristotle...
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Museum is a British television documentary series, produced by BBC Wales. It is a behind-the-scenes look at the British Museum, narrated by Ian McMillan...
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Suppressed Safe collection (category British Library collections)
account for the bulk of the suppressions". Secretum (British Museum) The other legal deposit libraries in the British Isles covered by the Agency for the Legal...
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George Witt (collector) (category People associated with the British Museum)
collection known as the museum's Secretum. Panizzi did not think twice as he considered the collection to be of the right quality for his museum. The collection...
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David Vases (category Asian objects in the British Museum)
the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, now on display in the British Museum. The vases are Jingdezhen porcelain, commissioned by someone named Zhang...
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works, introspective essays, letters, and more poetry. Among them are Secretum ("My Secret Book"), an intensely personal, imaginary dialogue with a figure...
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Blau Monuments (category Middle Eastern sculptures in the British Museum)
Monuments are a pair of inscribed stone objects from Mesopotamia now in the British Museum. They are commonly thought to be a form of ancient kudurru (boundary...
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Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (category Ancient Egyptian objects in the British Museum)
Mathematical Papyrus (RMP; also designated as papyrus British Museum 10057, pBM 10058, and Brooklyn Museum 37.1784Ea-b) is one of the best known examples of...
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not use the Voynich script but a simple substitution cipher. In the book Secretum de thesauro experimentorum ymaginationis hominum (Secret of the treasure-room...
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Dürer's Rhinoceros (category Prints and drawings in the British Museum)
noted it (in the lower margin of the original drawing now held at the British Museum), and its Indian keeper, named Ocem, to King Manuel I of Portugal. It...
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of highly explicit erotica for a private clientele. Even the British Museum had a Secretum filled with a collection of ancient erotica donated by the upper...
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Farnese Diadumenos (category Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the British Museum)
in the Farnese collection, it is now in the British Museum. Vaison Diadumenos, also in the British Museum Accession number GR 1864.10-21.4 (Cat. Sculptures...
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David Gaimster (category Employees of the British Museum)
Antiquities department and briefly as the caretaker of the Secretum. In 1991 while working at the museum, Gaimster received a PhD from University College London...
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Henry Spencer Ashbee (category British relationships and sexuality writers)
hidden from readers in the British Library for many years; they include a work by William Simpson Potter. (See also Secretum). Ashbee's most famous works...
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Private Case (category British Library collections)
Witt gifted his phallicism collection to the British Museum; much of this went into the museum's Secretum—their room for items deemed obscene—with the...
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Retrieved 4 January 2012. Reed 1972. Reed 1975 See for example recipes in the Secretum Philosophorum di Curci 2003. Brubaker, Leslie (1982). "Palimpsest". In...
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Dimna (c. 750) Abu Yahya ibn al-Batriq (d. 815) Sirr al-Asrar (سر الأسرار) Secretum Secretorum Al-Farabi (c. 872–950), Fusul al-Madani 'Aphorisms of a Statesman'...
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degli Uffizi Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum Russian Cultural Heritage Network (RCHN) Italian Ministry of Culture Museums, Libraries and Archives...
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Nasreddin (category Use British English from March 2022)
Nasrudin, and Nasrudin in the Land of Fools, five volumes by Tahir Shah, Secretum Mundi, London, 2019-2022 Mullah Nasiruddiner Galpo (Tales of Mullah Nasreddin)...
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Seal of Christopher III "of Bavaria", 1440s Sigilum secretum of Christian I, 1449 Sigilum secretum of Christian I, 1457–60 Seal of King Hans (reigned 1481–1513)...
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Rostock (section Museums and zoo)
Rostock has had three different coats of arms, known as the Signum, the Secretum and the Sigillum. The Signum, which can be traced back to 1367, was developed...
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Omne Bonum (category British Library Royal manuscripts)
of Ireland's florilegium Manipulus florum; and the pseudo-Aristotelian Secretum Secretorum. He also cites many common theological and philosophical authorities...
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Astrology (category Use British English from September 2016)
were Albumasar's Introductorium in Astronomiam, the Pseudo-Aristotelian Secretum Secretorum, Brunetto Latini's Trésor, and the Speculum Astronomiae ascribed...
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Roger Bacon (category Use British English from June 2015)
the alchemical literature known as the Secretum Secretorum made several appearances in the Opus Majus. The Secretum Secretorum contains knowledge about the...
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works by Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf; occult and alchemical works; the Secretum Secretorum; Al-Safadi's biographical dictionary Al-Sihah; the historical...
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voluptatis causa homini datam, sed propagandi generis, quem no violaverit hoc secretum et infixum visceribus ipsis exitium, omnis alia cupiditas intactum praeteribit)...
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romance also had an important influence on Arabic wisdom literature. In Secretum Secretorum ("Secret of Secrets", in Arabic Kitab sirr al-asrar), an encyclopedic...
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