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[Communications Among Joseph de Escandon and Various Spanish Officials]

Description: Series of communications among Joseph de Escandon and various Spanish officials in Mexico City. These concern whether or not the missionaries, sent to convert the Indians, need special authority from the Metropolitan Bishopric to administer sacraments to Spanish subjects as well as Indians.
Date: {1749-02-17..1749-04-02,1760-02-21}
Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

Planiglobii terrestris mappa universalis : utrumq hemisphærium orient. et occidentale repraesentans ex IV mappis generalibus Mappe-monde qui represente les deux hemispheres savoir celui de l'orient et celui de l'occident tirée des quatre cartes generales.

Description: Map shows major cities and political divisions for eastern and western hemispheres; 5 continents and portions of the 6th [Australia]; islands south of the eastern tip of Asia and North American coastline extends further northwest in version of map described herein. Includes six ancillary maps: "Fig. I, Hemisphere polaire Arctique," "Fig. II, Hemisphere polaire Antarctiq," "Fig. III, Hemisphere de las Sphere oblique pour l'Horizon de Nuremberg," "Fig. IV, Les Antipodes de Nuremberg," and two add… more
Date: 1746
Creator: Hase, Johann Matthias, 1684-1742
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi

Description: Map shows mid-eighteenth century North America. Expectoration routes, areas of Native American habitation, and European settlements in New France, French Louisiana, New Mexico, northeast New Spain, and a portion of the English colonies are noted. Inset: Carte particuliere des embouchures de la rivie S Louis et de la Mobile [Map of the St Louis and Mobile river mouths]. Includes legend and notes. Relief shown pictorially. Depths by soundings on inset. Scale [ca. 1:4,900,000].
Date: 1745
Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Amérique septentrionale : Publiée sous les auspices de Monseigneur le duc d'Orleans [Sheet 1].

Description: Map shows the geography, settlements, and Native American habitation in mid-eighteenth century North America that spans a majority of the the continent from the eastern coast to the Rio Grande region of "Nouveau Mexique." Inset: [Baffin Bay, Hudson Bay, Labrador, and Greenland]. Scale undetermined.
Date: 1746
Creator: Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Velvet ditto suit

Description: Man's three-piece suit of gold patterned silk velvet in tiny pink floral motif. A) Coat with narrow collar; covered buttons. Flap pockets. Lined in salmon pink silk. B) Waistcoat of matching fabric. Linen backing. C) Breeches of matching fabric. Pockets have leather linings.
Date: 1740/1765
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Susanna, a Sacred Oratorio

Description: This is the score of Handel's "Susanna," a sacred oratorio in three parts published by Samuel Arnold in ca. 1795. Grove Music established 1748 as the composition year of this oratorio and not 1743, as stated on the t.p. The first performance was given on February 10, 1749. The performance forces include: soloist (SATB), mixed chorus (SATB), strings (violins, viola, violoncellos, contra basses), woodwinds (oboe (2) and bassoon), trumpets (2), and continuo. . Although composed by Handel i… more
Date: 1748
Creator: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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