The totality of actions before, during and after a funeral

Pompe funebri. Di tutte le nationi del mondo. Raccolte dalle storie sagre, et profane / Dal Sr. Dottre. Francesco Perucci.

Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths / By Thomas Brown Dr. of Physick.

Specification of Henry Revell Spicer : cases for preserving human remains.

A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary Islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, etc / By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew.

Rites of funeral ancient and modern, in use through the known world / Written originally in French, by ... Monsieur Muret. To which is added, a vindication of Christianity against paganism [by M. Minucius Felix] All translated into English by P. Lorrain.

384 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 22 cm.

Greek burial customs / Donna C. Kurtz and John Boardman.

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0012344: Section on disposal of the dead in the Gallery of Primitive Medicine, Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1946

En torno a la muerte : una bibliografía, México, 1559-1990 / María Concepción Lugo Olín.

The reformation of the dead : death and ritual in early modern Germany, 1450-1700 / Craig M. Koslofsky.

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Rites of funeral ancient and modern, in use through the known world / Written originally in French, by ... Monsieur Muret. To which is added, a vindication of Christianity against paganism [by M. Minucius Felix] All translated into English by P. Lorrain.

Greek burial customs / Donna C. Kurtz and John Boardman.

M0012344: Section on disposal of the dead in the Gallery of Primitive Medicine, Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1946

En torno a la muerte : una bibliografía, México, 1559-1990 / María Concepción Lugo Olín.

The reformation of the dead : death and ritual in early modern Germany, 1450-1700 / Craig M. Koslofsky.

Funeral Rites

Images from the collections

Images about Funeral Rites

Works from the collections

Rites of funeral ancient and modern, in use through the known world / Written originally in French, by ... Monsieur Muret. To which is added, a vindication of Christianity against paganism [by M. Minucius Felix] All translated into English by P. Lorrain.

Greek burial customs / Donna C. Kurtz and John Boardman.

M0012344: Section on disposal of the dead in the Gallery of Primitive Medicine, Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1946

En torno a la muerte : una bibliografía, México, 1559-1990 / María Concepción Lugo Olín.

The reformation of the dead : death and ritual in early modern Germany, 1450-1700 / Craig M. Koslofsky.

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