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Archives related to: Minassian, Kirkor
| title | The Minassian Collection of Persian, Mughal, and Indian miniature paintings [electronic resource] | repository | Brown University, John Hay Archives |
| description | A searchable database of Persian and Islamic miniatures. Includes history, bibliographic, auction brochures, maps, and other notes. |
| formats | Electronic Resource |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://128.148.7.229:591/dbminassian/ |
| finding aid | http://128.148.7.229:591/dbminassian/ |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:00 |
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| title | Artist file: Minassian, Kirkor; miscellaneous uncataloged material. | repository | The Museum of Modern Art |
| description | The folder may include announcements, clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral material. |
| extent | 1 folder |
| formats | Ephemera |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991011021109707141 |
| updated | 11/29/2022 15:49:51 |
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| title | Collection of French legal and notarial documents, 1461-1870. | repository | Library of Congress |
| description | Miscellaneous French legal and notarial documents, including records of wills and financial transactions; together with autograph letters of various 19th century Frenchmen. Notes: In French. CALL NUMBER: MMC-0796 Manuscript Reading Room (Madison, LM101) |
| extent | 110 items. |
| formats | Legal Papers |
| access | Request in: Manuscript Reading Room (Madison, LM101) |
| record source | http://lccn.loc.gov/mm76021220 |
| acquisition information | Gift, Kirkor Minassian, 1933. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:13 |
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| title | Paul J. Sachs Papers, 1903-2005. | repository | Harvard Art Museum Archives |
| description | These papers of Fogg Art Museum associate director Paul J. Sachs document his administration of the museum, his teaching career at Harvard, and related professional activities. The papers consist primarily of correspondence and also include photographs, printed material, clippings, architectural drawings, reports, financial records, letters of introduction, insurance records, maps, funding appeals, minutes, memoranda, exhibition brochures, page proofs and press releases. |
| extent | 99 files boxes + oversize materials |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs Printed Materials Drawings Ephemera |
| access | Unrestricted. |
| record link | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUAM:art00010 |
| record source | http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu//?itemid=%7clibrary%2fm%2faleph%7c011763842 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:13 |
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| title | Cuneiform tablets collection. | repository | Library of Congress, African and Middle Eastern Division |
| description | Cuneiform tablets with inscriptions pertaining primarily to receipt of and payment for goods and services. Twelve tablets are identified as school exercise tablets. These were orginally unfired, as they were meant to be erased and reused. Other tablets, and the brick fragments, contain votive or commemorative inscriptions or are records of religious offerings. This last group includes also two votive cone inscriptions, inscribed cone-shaped clay "nails" made to be placed in the walls of a temple. The oldest tablets date from the reign of Gudea of Lagash (2144-2124 B.C.). Many others appear to belong to the Ur III period, including some inscribed with dates ranging from 2063 to 2031 B.C. The brick fragments belong to the period of Shalmanassar III (858-824 B.C.) during the New Assyrian Empire. Most of the clay tablets are square or rectangular in shape and range in size from 2 x 2 cm. to 18 x 19 cm. A number of the tablets are round, including all of the school exercise tablets in this collection. These are from 7 cm. to 8 1/2 cm. in diameter. The two brick fragments, which may or may not be parts of the same brick, together measure 15 1/2 cm. high x 29 cm. wide. Coloration varies from light to dark. Many tablets are inscribed on both front and back, and two are inscribed also on the side. The styles of inscription vary with the content or function. A few bear impressions of figures of deities and royal persons made in relief in the clay by cylinder seals. Some retain clay envelopes or fragments of same. Most items in Sumerian. A few in Old Babylonian and Neo-Assyrian. Characteristics of the inscriptions suggest the tablets may have come from the town of Drehem in Babylonia (modern Iraq). The inscriptions on the brick fragments identify them as coming from the city of Kalhu (or Calah, the modern city of Nimrud, Iraq). Images, drawings, and transcriptions of the tablets are also available in digital form via the Global Gateway Library of Congress Web site, under the title: Cuneiform tablets : from the reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/collame.am000001 |
| extent | 10 boxes |
| formats | Artifacts Illustrations Electronic Resource |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://lccn.loc.gov/2004573229 |
| record source | http://lccn.loc.gov/ |
| finding aid | A finding aid is available in the African and Middle Eastern Reading Room |
| acquisition information | Acquired by the Library of Congress in 1929 from art dealer Kirkor Minassian as part of a collection of Islamic bookbindings, manuscripts, textiles, and ceramic and metal objects illustrating the history of the development of writing and book arts in the Middle East |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:16 |
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