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Liz Fierst

Description:: Liz Fierst is a Korean American adoptee. She was raised in Minneapolis and has traveled to many places throughout her adult life. She is now a prinicpal for a Middle School in San Francisco.
Creator:: O'Hagan, Ruby
Contributor:: Rolland, Isabella
Created:: 2021-10-20
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Last Updated:: 2022-01-24

Lizard

Description:: A record book consisting chiefly of the minutes of the council which administered the district of Misiones in Brazil and decided cases relating to Indians who were allotted for service to the landowners.
Creator:: Portugal. Junta de missoes
Created:: 1759
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Page Count:: 192
Last Updated:: 2022-08-24

Description:: Manuscript, translated to French ca. 1372 from the original Latin of the mid-thirteenth century. An important medieval encyclopedia that covers all of the sciences known at that time, including theology, philosophy, medicine, chronology, zoology, botany, geography, astronomy, and mineralogy. Dedicated to King Charles V of France (d. 1280).
Creator:: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, active 13th century
Contributor:: Corbichon, Jean (translator)
Created:: 1372 - 1400
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Page Count:: 586
Last Updated:: 2019-08-20

Description:: This work is a collection of French medicinal and culinary folk recipes. Sections include remedies for fevers, chest ailments, palsy, dysentery, rheumatism, stomachaches, and epilepsy as well as veterinary guidelines to care for horses. It also includes directions for the garden and kitchen which tell how to plant asparagus, how to preserve peas...
Created:: 1750?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Page Count:: 88
Last Updated:: 2022-04-20

Description:: Holograph manuscript includes 250 recipes for various remedies and French medicines including descriptions of ailments and treatments. Also includes recipes for vanilla, chocolate, vinegar, wines, and perfumes. Recipes use ingredients such as cinnamon, vinegar, butter, rhubarb, nutmeg, cloves, rosemary, plums, and more.
Creator:: Courbis, Jean Antonie
Created:: 1706
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Page Count:: 175
Last Updated:: 2022-09-06

Description:: Recipe manuscript of various remedies coming from Greece, Switzerland, Germany, England, and France. Manuscript of remedies for various ailments and of recommendations to maintain health. Includes summaries of medications, virtues of drugs in general, cordials, names and weights of medicines, infusions, distillation, various waters, liqueurs, ga...
Created:: 1769-01-13
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Page Count:: 187
Last Updated:: 2022-09-06

Description:: Living With the Classical Canon. Professor Conley discusses Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. Tom Conley is the Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Chair of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Among his recent works are An Errant Eye: Topography and Poetry in Renaissance France (forthcoming, 2010...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Conley, Thomas
Created:: 2010-04-15
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05