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liber amicorum

A liber amicorum (plural: libri amicorum; the Latin phrase means ‘book of friends’) is sometimes also called an album amicorum and is a type of album that flourished especially in ...

Liber amicorum

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Guide to Latin in International Law (2 ed.)

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...Liber amicorum . lē´bāramēkō´rūm . lī´bɜr- or li´bɜr âmikō´rum. n . “Book of the friends.” A volume containing essays in honor of a celebrated person, or sometimes organization or subject. The topics treated in the essays may be unrelated or may relate to the work of the celebrated person or subject. A liber amicorum is sometimes referred to by its German name, ...

liber amicorum

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A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450–2000

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2011
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... amicorum A liber amicorum (plural: libri amicorum ; the Latin phrase means ‘book of friends’) is sometimes also called an album amicorum and is a type of album that flourished especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, originally in Protestant northern Germany, although the fashion spread widely on the continent. Libri amicorum were compiled by gentlemen (noblemen, students, lawyers, diplomats, etc.), often young men, who encouraged their friends, hosts, or honourable guests or visitors to write verses, inscriptions, or drawings in them,...

liber amicorum

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A liber amicorum (plural: libri amicorum; the Latin phrase means ‘book of friends’) is sometimes also called an album amicorum and is a type of album that flourished especially in ...
autograph album

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A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450–2000

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2011
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...alternatively signatures and inscriptions might be written on separate pieces of paper (including letters, cards, signed menus, programmes, and photographs) and pasted into the album afterwards. Although the origin of such albums lies in the libri amicorum of the sixteenth century ( see liber amicorum ), the great vogue for autograph albums developed in the nineteenth century and in great measure persisted in the twentieth century. The use of the word ‘autograph’ as a synonym for ‘signature’ has popular currency in this context, although the term has a...

Oda, Shigeru

Oda, Shigeru (1924– )   Reference library

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3 ed.)

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2009
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Law, International Law
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117 words

...in Our Time (2 vols., 1977 ); International Law of the Resources of the Sea (reprinted 1979 ); The Practice of Japan in International Law (with Owada, 1982 ). See McWhinney , Judge Sigeru Oda and the Progressive Development of International Law ( 1993 ); Ando , Liber Amicorum Judge Shigeru Oda ( 2002 ); Reisman, Judge Shigeru Oda: A Tribute to an International Treasure, 16 Leiden. J. Int’l L. 57 ( 2003 )...

album

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A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450–2000

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2011
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... scrapbook , and stamp album ). Although it is possible to find other kinds of blank books, they would not generally be called ‘albums’ if they were evidently intended for other uses, such as account books or commonplace books. Albums date from the sixteenth century. See liber amicorum...

Album amicorum

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The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art

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2009
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Art & Architecture
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...vriendschap op papier gezet: Het album amicorum en het poëziealbum in de Nederlanden (Maarssen and The Hague, 1990) I. O’Dell : ‘ Jost Amman and the Album Amicorum: Drawings after Prints in Autograph Albums ’, Prt Q. , ix (March, 1992), pp. 31–5 J. Schlueter : ‘ Michael van Meer's Album Amicorum, with Illustrations of London, 1614–15 ’, Huntington Lib. Q. , lxix (2006), pp....

Ortelius [Ortels], Abraham

Ortelius [Ortels], Abraham (4 April 1527)   Reference library

The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art

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2009
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...influenced william Camden . Notwithstanding his friendship with such intellectuals of heterodox religious views as Christoph Plantin, Dirck Coornhert and Hubertus Goltzius, Ortelius was appointed geographer to Philip II of Spain in 1573 . Ortelius's Album amicorum ( 1574 ; Cambridge, Pembroke Coll. Lib.) includes entries on his friends, among them Cornelis Cort, Frans Hogenberg, Philip van Winghe ( 1560–92 ) and, most importantly, Pieter Bruegel the elder ( see Bruegel , (1), whom he praised in a moving eulogy as the most perfect painter of his time,...

Mackenzie, Barbara Dobbs

Mackenzie, Barbara Dobbs (28 April 1960)   Reference library

Claire Brook

The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)

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2013
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Music, Social sciences, Regional and Area Studies
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...Musicians , ed. S. Sadie (London, 7/2000) with B.S. Brook : “Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale,” Grove Music Online , 〈 http://www.grovemusic.com 〉 ed.: RILM Retrospectives , iv: Speaking of Music: Music Conferences, 1835–1966 (New York, 2004), and v: Liber amicorum: Festschriften for Musicians and Nonmusicians, 1840–1966 (New York, 2009) “Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM): Immutable Mission amidst Continual Change,” in Music, Libraries, and the Academy: Essays in Honor of Lenore Coral , ed. J. Cassaro ...

Speeckaert [Speckaert, Speccard, Spicart], Jan [Hans]

Speeckaert [Speckaert, Speccard, Spicart], Jan [Hans] (1577)   Reference library

The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art

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2009
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...Bull ., xix/3 (1962), pp. 110–14 T. Gerszi : ‘ Unbekannte Zeichnungen von Jan Speckaert ’, Oud-Holland , lxxxiii (1968), pp. 161–80 S. Béguin : ‘ Pour Speckaert ’, Album Amicorum J. G. van Gelder (The Hague, 1973), pp. 9–14 The Age of Bruegel: Netherlandish Drawings in the Sixteenth Century (exh. cat. by J. O. Hand and others; Washington, DC, N.G.A.; New York, Pierpont Morgan Lib.; 1986–7), pp. 272–3 E. J. Siroká : Northern Artists in Italy ca. 1565–85: Hans Speckaert as a Draughtsman and a Teacher (PhD thesis, Princeton U., 1995) W. T. Kloek : ‘...

Lambrechts-Douillez, Jeannine

Lambrechts-Douillez, Jeannine (13 Feb 1928)   Reference library

The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (2 ed.)

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2015
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409 words

...As a member (1984–93) of the Royal Commission for Monuments and Sites she was also involved in overseeing the maintenance of historic organs. Lambrechts-Douillez retired in 1990 as Curator Emeritus of the Archaeological Museums of the City of Antwerp. A festschrift, Liber Amicorum for Jeannine Lambrechts-Douillez on the occasion of her 80th birthday (Antwerp, 2008), was privately printed. Writings (selective list) all entries regarding European musical instruments except organs in Algemene Muziek Encyclopedie (Antwerp, 1957–72; 2/1979–84)...

Shaman drum

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Mireille Helffer

The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (2 ed.)

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2015
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Music
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437 words

...Research (1997), nos.12–13, pp.176–96 E.J.N. Fridman and M.N. Walter , eds.: Shamanism: an Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture (Santa Barbara, CA, 2004) I. Mačák : ‘About the Connection Between the Symbols of Shamanic Drums and Royal Insignia’, Liber Amicorum Jeannine Lambrechts-Douillez (Antwerp, 2008), 1–20 Mireille Helffer /R ...

Hakendover, Master of

Hakendover, Master of (1400–20)   Reference library

The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture

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2013

...Netherlandish Works (diss., U. Michigan, 1974), pp. 111–48 Die Parler und der Schöne Stil, 1350–1400: Europäische Kunst unter den Luxemburgern (exh. cat., ed. A. Legner ; Cologne, Schnütgen-Mus., 1978), i, pp. 88–90, 94–5 K. Morand : ‘Claus Sluter: The Early Years’, Liber Amicorum Herman Liebaers (Brussels, 1984), pp. 561–84 K. W. Woods : ‘Newly Discovered Work in England by the Master of Hakendover’, Oud-Holland , cxiii/3 (1999), pp. 93–106 M. van Vlierden : ‘Enkele retabelfragmenten uit het atelier van de Meester van het retabel van Hakendover: Een...

Fuller, Lon Luvois

Fuller, Lon Luvois (1902–78)   Reference library

The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers

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2010
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Philosophy
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...of Social Order: Selected Essays of Lon L. Fuller (Durham, N.C., 1981). Contains a bibliography of Fuller’s publications. Further Reading Bio 20thC Phils, Encyc Ethics, Routledge Encycl Phil, Who Was Who in Amer v7 Bechtler, Thomas W. , ed. Law in a Social Context: Liber Amicorum Honouring Professor Lon L. Fuller (Deventer, The Netherlands, 1978). MacLeod-Cullinane, Barry . “Lon L. Fuller and the Enterprise of Law,” Legal Notes No. 22 (London, 1995). Strahan, Thomas W. “The Natural Law Philosophy of Lon L. Fuller in Contrast to Roe v. Wade and Its...

Marzoli, Angelo Gaëtan Philippe

Marzoli, Angelo Gaëtan Philippe (21 Sept 1865)   Reference library

James B. Kopp

The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (2 ed.)

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2015
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526 words

...Inventions Exhibition in London, together with his own bassoons. Bibliography W. Waterhouse : The New Langwill Index (London, 1993), 255 T. Giannini : ‘Frédéric Triebert (1813–1878), Designer of the Modern Oboe: Newly Found Archival Documents’, Liber amicorum Isabelle Cazeaux , ed. P.A. Bempéchat (Hillsdale, NY, 2005), 81 G. Burgess : ‘New Triebert Discoveries’, GSJ , vol.65/March (2012), 93–111 James B. Kopp ...

Thieriot, Prudent

Thieriot, Prudent (6 Feb 1730)   Reference library

Tula Giannini

The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (2 ed.)

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2015
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...Documents’, Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society , vol.27/1 (1998), 7–10 T. Giannini , ‘Frédéric Triebert (1813–1878), Designer of the Modern Oboe: Newly Found Archival Documents Featuring the Inventory and Auction of his Musical Instrument Enterprise’, Liber amicorum Isabelle Cazeaux: Symbols, Parallels, and Discoveries in her Honor , ed. P.-A. Bempéchat (Hillsdale, NY, 2005), 49–90 Tula Giannini ...

Matilda of Canossa, Countess of Tuscany

Matilda of Canossa, Countess of Tuscany (1045)   Reference library

The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture

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2013

...of Matilda: The Semiotics of Power and Reform’, Medioevo: Immagini e ideologie , ed. A. C. Quintavalle (Milan, 2005) C. Verzar : ‘Visualizing Politics and Authority of Countess Matilda of Canossa and Tuscany: Ideology and Myth’, Pictorial Languages and their Meanings: Liber Amicorum in Honor of Nurith Kenaan-Kedar , ed. C. B. Verzar and G. Fishhof (Tel Aviv, 2006), pp. 253–64 R. Brunelli , ed.: Anselmo di Lucca: Consigliere di Matilde, patrono di Mantova (Mantua, 2008) A. Calzona , ed.: Matilde e il tesoro dei Canossa: Tra castelli, monasteri...

Plantijn, Christoffel

Plantijn, Christoffel (1520?–1589)   Reference library

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation

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Current Version:
2005
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History, modern history (1700 to 1945), Religion
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...Madrid. Madrid, 1991. Voet, Léon . The Golden Compasses: A History and Evaluation of the Printing and Publishing Activities of the Officina Plantiniana at Antwerp 2 vols. Amsterdam and New York, 1969–1972. ——. Some Considerations on the Productions of the Plantin Press. In Liber Amicorum Herman Liebaers , edited by Frans Vanwijngaerden , et al., pp. 355–369. Brussels, 1984. Voet, Léon , and Jenny Voet-Grisolle . The Plantin Press, 1555–1589 . 6 vols. Amsterdam, 1980–1983. A bibliography of the works printed and published by Christoffel Plantijn at Antwerp...

Guillebert de Metz, Master of

Guillebert de Metz, Master of (fl c. 1415–60)   Reference library

The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture

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2013

...by the Master of Guillebert de Mets’, Flanders in a European Perspective: Manuscript Illumination around 1400 in Flanders and Abroard: Leuven, 1993 , pp. 581–91 M. P. J. Martens : ‘The Master of Guillebert de Mets: An Illuminator Between Paris and Ghent?’, “Als Ich Can”: Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers, B. Cardon, J. Van der Stock, and D. Vanwijnsberghe, Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 10–11: Low Countries Series, 8–9 (Leuven, 2002)pp.,...

Triebert

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Geoffrey Burgess

The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2015
Subject:
Music
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913 words

...Biographie der Oboenbauer Triebert in Paris (1810–1878)’, Tibia , vol.10/1 (1985), 277–9 T. Giannini : ‘Frédéric Triébert (1813–1878), Designer of the Modern Oboe: Newly Found Archival Documents Featuring the Inventory and Auction of his Musical Instrument Enterprise’, Liber amicorum Isabelle Cazeaux: Symbols, Parallels and Discoveries in her Honor , ed. P.-A. Bempéchat (Hillsdale, NY, 2005), 49–90 D. Watel : ‘Les becs de clarinette à table mobile: Une invention de Frédéric Triébert,’ Larigot: Bulletin de l’Association des Collectionneurs d’Instruments à...

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