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Allegory

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  • The holy Cow personified as World Mother with many Sanskrit verses. Chromolithograph.
  • The holy Cow personified as World Mother with many Sanskrit verses. Chromolithograph.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The Purple island and anatomy in early seventeenth-century literature, philosophy, and theology / Peter Mitchell.

    Mitchell, Peter, 1968- | Date: [2007], ©2007
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    Allegory and philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sînâ) : with a translation of the Book of the Prophet Muhammad's ascent to heaven / Peter Heath.

    Heath, Peter, 1949-2014. | Date: [1992], ©1992
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    Aurea catena Homeri : the golden chain of Homerus that is a description of nature and natural things / [Homer] ; translated by Sigismund Bacstrom ; from the unpublished manuscript.

    | Date: 1983
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    Die Zauberflöte : een alchemistische allegorie / M.F.M. van den Berk.

    Berk, M. F. M. van den (Matheus Franciscus Maria), 1938- | Date: [1995], ©1995
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    Les voyages d'une allégorie alchimique : de la 'Visio Edwardi' à 'L'Oeuvre royalle de Charles VI' / Pascale Barthélemy et Didier Kahn.

    Barthélemy, Pascale. | Date: 1994
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