Immaterial aspect or essence of a living being or object

A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.

An HIV positive woman in a vest beside figures cut out of meat, and bearing the warning 'Sondermüll-Mensch' (human hazardous waste); advertising an exhibition about the Upper Austrian AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by Mares Andreas, 1995.

A blacksmith's forge, in which Divine Love prepares to hammer two hearts into one, with the aid of the Soul, who operates the bellows. Coloured etching, 16--.

Pilgrims on the three ways to eternity. Coloured wood engraving by F. Georgin.

Frontispiece to English edition of Charles Le Brun's designs of the human passions. Crayon manner print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after J. Audran, 1727.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) and Saint Joseph with the Christ Child, Saint John the Baptist and Saint Michael the Archangel. Engraving by Annibale Carracci, 1582, after Lorenzino Sabbatini da Bologna.

Four heads representing the souls of people who have given different degrees of attention to spiritual matters. Engraving after R. Sadeler.

The soul being refined like metal in a crucible by an angel, Satan, Venus and Death; representing a test of faith. Etching by C. Murer, ca. 1600-1614.

A deathbed: a man breathes his last, the devil flies down and grabs his soul (in the form of a baby) from his mouth. Engraving, 16--.

The trial of soul after death in the court of Yama. Chromolithograph.

Saint Benedict: his soul ascending to heaven as a sign of his patronage of the dying. Line engraving, 17--.

2 volumes (2 unnumbered pages, IV, 1 unnumbered page, VIII-XIV, 426 pages; XIII, 1 unnumbered page, 434 pages) ; 22 cm (8vo)

Pragmatische Psychologie : oder, Seelenlehre in der Anwendung auf das Leben / Von Dr. Eduard Beneke ... In zwei Bänden.

The holy war , made by Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the regaining of the metropolis of the world; or, The losing and takin gagaino f [sic] the town of Mansoul. By John Bunyan, author of The pilgrim's progress. [One line from Hosea].

Maimonides' cure of souls : medieval precursor of psychoanalysis / David Bakan, Dan Merkur and David S. Weiss.

Peter of Spain, Qestiones super libro 'De animalibus' Aristotelis : critical edition with introduction / edited by Francisca Navarro Sánche.

[vi], 88 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm.

Pseudo-Bede, De mundi celestis terrestrisque constitutione = A treatise on the universe and the soul / edited and translated by Charles Burnett ; with the collaboration of members of a seminar group at the Warburg Institute, London.

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Pragmatische Psychologie : oder, Seelenlehre in der Anwendung auf das Leben / Von Dr. Eduard Beneke ... In zwei Bänden.

The holy war , made by Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the regaining of the metropolis of the world; or, The losing and takin gagaino f [sic] the town of Mansoul. By John Bunyan, author of The pilgrim's progress. [One line from Hosea].

Maimonides' cure of souls : medieval precursor of psychoanalysis / David Bakan, Dan Merkur and David S. Weiss.

Peter of Spain, Qestiones super libro 'De animalibus' Aristotelis : critical edition with introduction / edited by Francisca Navarro Sánche.

Pseudo-Bede, De mundi celestis terrestrisque constitutione = A treatise on the universe and the soul / edited and translated by Charles Burnett ; with the collaboration of members of a seminar group at the Warburg Institute, London.

Soul

Images from the collections

Images referencing Soul

Works from the collections

Pragmatische Psychologie : oder, Seelenlehre in der Anwendung auf das Leben / Von Dr. Eduard Beneke ... In zwei Bänden.

The holy war , made by Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the regaining of the metropolis of the world; or, The losing and takin gagaino f [sic] the town of Mansoul. By John Bunyan, author of The pilgrim's progress. [One line from Hosea].

Maimonides' cure of souls : medieval precursor of psychoanalysis / David Bakan, Dan Merkur and David S. Weiss.

Peter of Spain, Qestiones super libro 'De animalibus' Aristotelis : critical edition with introduction / edited by Francisca Navarro Sánche.

Pseudo-Bede, De mundi celestis terrestrisque constitutione = A treatise on the universe and the soul / edited and translated by Charles Burnett ; with the collaboration of members of a seminar group at the Warburg Institute, London.

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