Polysemous term referring to a written art form, and the set of all literary works

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Life & letters at Bath in the xviijth century / by A. Barbeau ; with a preface by Austin Dobson.

Literature saving the past from destruction by Time, in the form of a winged old man with a scythe. Etching by L. du Guernier.

Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.

Apollo, god of literature, plays his harp; a town goes about its rituals. Engraving by J. Sadeler after J. van der Straet, 1594.

The figure of a woman divided in two parts: half skeleton, half lady of fashion, standing next to a obelisk inscribed with biblical quotations. Etching, 17--, attributed to V. Green.

A man in leggings sits looking at a book on the floor advertising L'Androgyne, an organisation dedicated to gay and lesbian literature in Montréal, Quebec. Lithograph.

La higiene municipal en la obra de Francisco Mendez Alvaro (1806-1883) / José Luis Fresquet Febrer.

The Elizabethan world picture / by E.M.W. Tillyard.

Weep not for me : women, ballads, and infanticide in early modern Scotland / Deborah A. Symonds.

The Latin-Arabic glossary of the Leiden University Library : a contribution to the study of Mozarabic manuscripts and literature / P. Sj. van Koningsveld.

La perfection de l'homme selon Galien / Vincent Barras et Terpsi Birchler.

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Literature

Images from the collections

Images about Literature

Works from the collections

La higiene municipal en la obra de Francisco Mendez Alvaro (1806-1883) / José Luis Fresquet Febrer.

The Elizabethan world picture / by E.M.W. Tillyard.

Weep not for me : women, ballads, and infanticide in early modern Scotland / Deborah A. Symonds.

The Latin-Arabic glossary of the Leiden University Library : a contribution to the study of Mozarabic manuscripts and literature / P. Sj. van Koningsveld.

La perfection de l'homme selon Galien / Vincent Barras et Terpsi Birchler.

Literature

Images from the collections

Images about Literature

Works from the collections

La higiene municipal en la obra de Francisco Mendez Alvaro (1806-1883) / José Luis Fresquet Febrer.

The Elizabethan world picture / by E.M.W. Tillyard.

Weep not for me : women, ballads, and infanticide in early modern Scotland / Deborah A. Symonds.

The Latin-Arabic glossary of the Leiden University Library : a contribution to the study of Mozarabic manuscripts and literature / P. Sj. van Koningsveld.

La perfection de l'homme selon Galien / Vincent Barras et Terpsi Birchler.

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