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• Handwritten manuscripts that have been decorated with gold or silver, brilliant colors, designs, or miniature pictures. Although prevalent in Islamic and Asian societies, the longest tradition of illuminating manuscripts was in Christian medieval Europe, from the 6th-16th centuries, when the art was superseded by printed illustrations. Generally, the manuscripts were both 'historiated', or decorated with relevant paintings, and 'illuminated' in its original sense, meaning decorated with calligraphic initial capital letters using gold leaf. Over time, the term 'illuminated' came to refer to any illustration or decoration in a manuscript. Illuminated manuscripts played a major role in the development of art, partly because of the manuscript's portability in carrying artistic developments from one region to another.

• Documents by which one party (the insurer) in consideration of a premium, engages to indemnify another (the insured) against a contingent loss, by making a payment in compensation.

• Statements, transcripts, or recordings of conversations in which one person obtains information from another such as for research purposes, publication, or broadcast.

• Engraved, printed, or written expressions requesting a person's company at a certain event at a given time and place.

• Documents showing items supplied, together with the prices charged for each; also, itemized bills or accounts.

• Short coats for the upper body made in various forms and lengths, but usually no lower than the waist or upper hip; worn indoors or for light warmth and protection from the weather.

• Books containing accounts of an individual's or organization's occurrences or transactions, including records of financial transactions. Use "diaries" when referring to personal accounts of the writer's experiences, attitudes, or observations.

• Creative works, usually two-dimensional, depicting an outdoor scene dominated by the land, hills, fields, sky, trees, fields, rivers or other bodies of water, and other natural elements. Landscapes may include a near point of view in the foreground, but also usually depict a view into the distance. Landscapes may contain architecture or figures, but the primary focus remains the land. When an ocean, sea, or other large body of water dominates the picture, use "seascapes." For actual areas of land rather than depictions, use "landscapes (environments)."

• Transparent positive images made or mounted on glass for projection, usually but not necessarily photographic, measuring 3 1/4 to 3 1/2 by 4 inches for projection onto a screen by means of a specialized projector.

• Small printed works consisting of one small-sized leaf of paper folded and not stitched or bound, containing printed matter, chiefly for gratuitous distribution.

• Contracts by which one conveys land or other property for a specified time usually for compensation or rent.

• Expositions of a given subject delivered before an audience or class, especially for the purposes of instruction.

• General term for documents having legal relevance.

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• Pieces of correspondence that are somewhat more formal than memoranda or notes, usually on paper and delivered.

• Mechanical devices meant for lighting cigarettes, cigars, and pipes.

• Transcribed collections of numbers, names, or other text indicating tallies of concepts collocated for any particular purpose.

• Records in which are entered sequential data, especially about activities or transactions that occur in a system.

Use for: LPs

• Phonograph records originally invented by Columbia Records, first introduced in 1948. The records have a rotational speed of 33 1/3 rpm (revolutions per minute), and have very fine grooves. They, along with 45 rpm records, replaced 78 rpm records in popularity.