Before the Common Era (BCE)       2060   Cuneiform Tablet – Ur, Southern Babylonia 1820   Cuneiform Tablet – Larsa (Tell Senkereh) 1300-1015   Oracle Bone – China, Shang Dynasty 1050-256   Vessel (gui) – China, Zhou Dynasty 100   Homer. Iliad – Papyrus fragment, Greek     Homer. Odyssey – Papyrus fragment, Greek   Common Era (CE)     324   Aurelius Isidoros (4th century CE). Petition to Dioskoros Caeso – Papyrus, Greek 764-770   Hyakumantō darani (One million pagoda dhārāni) 800   Anthology of Church Dogma 1122   Grant of the monastery of San Salvador de Cornellana to Cluny 1162   Da bo re bo luo mi duo jing (Prajna-paramita sutra) 1200   Japan, Fujiwara period, 12th century CE Standing Bodhisattva     Omar Khayyam (1048-1122 CE).  Maqalah fi al-jabr wa-al muqabalah [Algebra] 1259   Quran: 3rd section, in muhaqqaq script with Persian interlinear translation 1260-1368   Nestorian Crosses 1300   La Mort le roi Artu – Manuscript, Northeastern Italy    Fifteenth Century 1400   Yongbi Ŏch’on’ga (Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven)     Gilles Le Bouvier (1386-ca. 1457).  La chronique des rois Charles 6 et 7 conformé aux troubles d'aujourduy     Valerius Maximus (fl. 20 CE).  Facta et dicta memorabilia 1450   Aelius Donatus (fl. 354 CE).  Ars Minor 1458   Canon Missae 1463   Alexander de Villa Dei (1175-1240).  Doctrinale 1472   Nicholas Statham (fl.1472).  Abridgment 1473   Antiphonal 1477   Marco Polo (1254-1324).  Buch des edeln Ritters und Landtfahrers Marco Polo 1478   Arte dell'Abbaco 1483   Biblia Germanica 1485   Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (b. ca. 80/70 BCE).  De Architectvra     Book of Hours, use of Paris 1486-1487   Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472).  De re aedificatoria    Sixteenth Century 1500   Denga [Silver wire coin], Moscow (16th century) 1514-1515   Nocturnale for Carthusian Use 1515   Articella nuperrime impressa cum quamplurimis tractatibus pristine impressioni superadditis 1516   Iamblichus Chalcidensis (ca. 240-325).  De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum 1517   Homer (fl. 9th or 8th century BCE?).  Ilias; Ulyssea; Batrachomyomachia; Hymni xxxii 1521   Jacopo Berengario da Carpi (1460?-1530?).  Commentaria cum amplissimis additionibus super anotomia Mundini 1525   Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528).  Underweysung der Messung 1526   Martin Luther (1483-1546).  Der Prophet Jona 1528   Hans von Gersdorff (1455-1529).  Feldtbuch der Wundartzney 1541   Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554).  Book VI, On Domestic Architecture 1543   Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564).  De humani corporis fabrica libri septem 1546   Babylonian Talmud 1550   Kuzuoka Nobuyoshi (1629-1717).  Urashima Tarō     Gospel lectionary 1556   Georg Agricola (1494-1555).  De re metallica 1557   Thomas Littleton (1422-1481).  Tenures. London: Richard Tottell, 1557 1558   Astrolabe 1563   John Shute (d. 1563).  The First and Chief Grovndes of Architectvre vsed in all the auncient and famous monymentes: with a farther & more ample discouse vyppon the same, than hitherto hath been set out by any other. Pvblished by Ihon Shute, Paynter and Archytecte 1570   John De Beauchesne (1538? -after 1610) and John Baildon (fl. 1570).  A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands     Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598).  Theatrum orbis terrarum 1573   Giovanni Andrea dalla Croce (1509?-1580).   Chirurgiae...libri septem 1590   Antoine Lafréry (1512-1577).  Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae     Joan Oliva (1580-1615).  Portolan atlas of five charts of the the European and African Coasts of the Mediterranean and Atlantic 1595   Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599).  Colin Clouts Come Home Again 1597   Gaspare Tagliacozzi (1545-1599).  De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem    Seventeenth Century 1600   Urashima Tarō – Painted scroll, Japan 1610   Galileo Galilei (1564-1642).  Sidereus nuncius 1611   The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the originall tongues & ... revised, by his Maiesties speciall Cōmandement 1623   William Shakespeare Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies 1639   William Harvey (1578-1657).  De motu cordis & sanguinis in animalibus, anatomica exercitatio 1646   Hymnal – Crimea, Kafay 1650   René Descartes (1596-1650).  Renati Des-Cartes Musicae compendium 1658   Johannes Nevins (1627-before 1672).  Document pertaining to a plot of land 1659   John Milton (1608-1674).  Letterbook 1660-1664   Solomon Stoddard (1643-1729).  Common Place Book and Sermon Notes 1665   Robert Hooke (1635-1703).  Micrographia: or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses 1670   Nogŏltae ŏnhae – Korea 1673   Kitamura, Kigin, 1625-1705.  Genji monogatari kogetsu shō 1678   Isaac Newton (1642-1727).  The Three Mysterious Fires: Commentary on Monte -Snyder's Tractatus de Medicina Universali 1693-1743   Court of Raja Jaisingh II (1686-1743).  Yantraraja     The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New 1696   Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712) and Giovanni Cassini (1677-1756).  Planisphere terrestre ou sont marquees longitudes de divers lieux de la terre 1699   William III, King of Great Britain(1650-1702).  Anno regni Gulielmi III Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Decimo    Eighteenth Century 1700   Hornbook mould, 18th century? – Wood, England? 1702   Henry Purcell (1659-1695).  Orpheus Britannicus. A collection of all the choicest songs...The Second Book, which renders the First Compleat 1722   Peter I, Czar of Russia (1672-1725).  Patent 1730   The Beggar's Opera – playing cards, England 1734   William Caslon (1693-1766).  A Specimen by W. Caslon, Letter-Founder, Ironmonger-Row, Old-Street, London 1738-1772   François de Cuvilliés (1695-1768).  A collection of engravings after the designs of François de Cuvilliés, the elder and his son, François the younger (1731-1777) 1739   Leonard Euler (1707-1783).  Tentamen novae theoriae musicae 1746-1754   Thomas Wright (1711-1786).  Various & Valuable Sketches and Designs of Buildings 1747-1758   New York City, Coroner's Office Minutes of the Coroner's Proceedings in the City and County of New York 1762   James Adam (d. 1794).  British Order – Ink and wash on paper 1766   Vesperal – Manuscript on paper, Austro-Hungarian Empire 1768   A plan of the boundary lines between the Province of Maryland and the three lower counties on the Delaware – Map, Philadelphia: R. Kennedy 1767   Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778).  Elevazione ortografica della Tribuna, e del Presbiterio della Basilica Lateranense 1770   King's College Board of Trustees Draft of medical diploma of Robert Tucker     Catherine II, Empress of Russia (1729-1796).  Nakaz Eia Imperatorskago Velichestva Ekateriny Vtoriya, Samoderzhitsy Vserossiiskiia dannyi Kommissii o sochinenii proekta novago ulozheniia 1771   John Hunter (1728-1793).  The Natural History of the Human Teeth 1774   James Graham.   Doctor Bard's Lectures upon the Palsey 1775   Abraham Swan (ca. 1720-ca. 1765).  A Collection of Designs in Architecture, Containing New Plans and Elevations of Houses, for General Use 1778-1788   Whittier Perkins' Yankee Doodle: A Collection of Dancing Tunes, Marches & Song Tunes, ca. 1778-1788 1780   Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).  Composing stick     Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827).  Portrait of Alexander Hamilton     Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757-1854).  Gold double-band wedding ring of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, and wedding handkerchiefs of Alexander and Elizabeth Hamilton, 1780     Richard Brinsley Sheridan – Miniature portrait 1785-1828   DeWitt Clinton(1769-1828).  Letterbooks 1786   Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784).  Poems on various subjects, religious and moral 1788   John Jay (1745-1829).  Federalist Number 5 1789-1796   Tammany Society Journal & Rules of the Council of Sachems of Saint Tammany's Society     Ephraim Kirby (1757-1804).  Reports of cases adjudged in the Superior Court of Connecticut; with some determinations in the Supreme Court of Errors 1791   Luigi Galvani (1737-1798).  De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius 1793-1799   Alexander Anderson (1775-1870).  Diarium commentarium vitae Alexander Anderson 1795   Archibald Robertson (ca. 1745-1813). New York from Long Island 1798-1799   George Washington (1732-1799).  Proposals for the additional army 1799   France. Ministère de la Marine Comptabilité particulière du Citoyen David, pour l'Expedition d'Angleterre    Nineteenth Century 1800   Alexander Anderson (1775-1870).  Wood engraving of garden-house scene, signed in the block "AA"     Tibetan Printing Block     L. S. Alexander Gumby (1885-1961).  Collection of Negroiana     Lexicographical Works – Manuscript, Nestorian, on paper     Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816).  School for Scandal – Manuscript 1801   Joseph Mazzinghi (1765-1844).  Chains of the Heart, or the Slave by Choice. A Comic Opera. 1801-1900   Fabric "cheat sheet" – China, ink on silk     Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830).  Portait of George Gordon, Lord Byron 1808   Kara George (1762-1817).  Agreement – Belgrade 1810   Joseph Haydn (1732-1809).  Die X Gebothe Gottes, in Musik gesetzt als Canons von Joseph Hayden [The Ten Commandments] 1815   Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830).  Portait of George Gordon, Lord Byron 1816   Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827).  Wellingtons-Sieg, oder: Die Schlacht bey Vittoria, Opus 91. 1817   William Samuel Johnson (1795-1883).  Litchfield notebook of law lecture courses 1818   Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851).  Frankenstein, or, the modern Prometheus 1819   René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781 - 1826).  De l'Auscultation Médiate, ou Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur fondé principalement sur ce Nouveau Moyen d'Exploration. 1820   Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827).  Notes on Mozart's Requiem and sketch for Missa Solemnis 1822   The African Union Hymn book, designed as a companion for the pious, and friends of all denominations ... compiled by Peter Spencer 1824   Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865).  Arithmetic exercises from manuscript sum book 1826   Alexander I, Czar of Russia (1777-1825).  Funeral scroll 1827-1838   John James Audubon (1785-1851).  The Birds of America 1828   Robert Stephenson and Company, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.  "America" – Watercolor drawing 1829   Alexander Bestuzhev (1797-1837).  On Your Namesake Day     Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838).  Memorie. In tre volume. Seconda editione corretta, ampliata e accresciuta     Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893).  Muslin bodice of the costume worn as Juliet, debut appearance, Covent Garden, London: 5 O ctober 1829 1830   Alexandra Vereshchagina (1810-1873).  Autograph album 1833   Andō Hiroshige (1797-1858).  Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi no uchi: Fujikawa (Fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō: Fujikawa station) 1834   Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892).  United States Custom House – Watercolor and black ink on paper 1835   Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893).  Journal by Frances Anne Butler, with the author's ms. annotations 1837   Nicholas I, Czar of Russia (1796-1855).  Autograph letter, signed, to Count Alexander Benckendorff (with envelope) 1839   Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851).  Historique et description des procédés du daguerréotype et du diorama 1840   Trinity Church perspective view – Watercolor on paper     Minard Lafever (1797-1854).  Drawings for unbuilt church in Brooklyn Heights, 1840 1841   Georgios Kalognomos Enchiridion peri synallagmatikon 1843   Washington Hand Press     Johannes Andreae (d. 1348).  De arbore consanguinitatis, affinitatis et cognitionis spiritualis 1845-1846   Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861).  Yume no ukihashi (Bridge of dreams) 1846   John Plumbe (1809-1857).  Daguerreotype portrait of Alexander Anderson     David Octavius Hill (1802-1870).  A Series of Calotype Views of St. Andrews 1849   William Pratt (1822-1893).  Daguerreotype portrait of Edgar Allan Poe 1850   Unidentified photographer.   Portrait of John Watson Webb 1851   Harper & Brothers Contract between Herman Melville and Harper & Brothers for "The Whale," [Moby Dick] 1854   Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851. 1855   Amanoto Toryū (1818-1877).  Kyōka chakizai gazōshū     Walt Whitman (1819-1892).  Leaves of Grass 1860   Florence Nightingale (1820-1910).  Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What it is Not     A. A. Turner.  Portrait of Florence Nightingale 1861   Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865).  Manuscript letter in John Hay's hand, signed by Lincoln, to Columbia University President Charles King 1863-1869   Louis Prang (1824-1909).  Views in Central Park, New York 1865   Architectural Iron Works of New York Illustrations of Iron Architecture, Made by the Architectural Iron Works of the City of New York 1869-1870   John Stuart Mill (1806-1873).  Autobiography of J. S. Mill, written by himself 1872   Daly's Theatre, New York City.   Account book 1873-1878   Stanford White (1853-1906).  Album of family letters with sketches 1878   Jean-Martin Charcot(1825-1893).  Ueber die Localisationen der Gehirn-Krankheiten     Anton Bruckner (1824-1896).  Symphony IV, (Romantic) 1882-1883   Memorial to the Columbia College Board of Trustees 1886   Eastman Johnson (1824-1906).  Portrait of Fredrick A. P. Barnard, 1886 1889   Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870-1938).  Communism     Hirobumi Itō (1841-1909).  Teikoku kenpō, Kōshitsu tenpan gige [Commentaries on the Constitution of the Empire of Japan and Imperial ordinance]     Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860-1908).  Indian Suite, [Suite No. 2, Op. 48] 1890   Chen Menglei (1651-1741) and Jiang Tingxi (1669-1732).  Qin ding gu jin tu shu ji cheng 1891   Dwight's retirement folio – Commissioned for Theodore W. Dwight by Columbia Law School students of the classes of 1891 and 1892 1893   Amanda Smith (1837-1915).  An Autobiography: the story of the Lord's dealing with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist     Stephen Crane (1871-1900).  Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, a story of New York, by Johnston Smith 1894   Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909).  Typed letter, signed, to Stanford White, with initial sketch of Low Library, Columbia University 1895   Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924).  Drawing for Doorknob, Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York, 1895     Yale & Towne.   Doorknob, Guaranty Building – Cast iron 1896   Kelmscott Press.  Specimen copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer     Michael Idvorsky Pupin (1858-1935).  X-ray photograph of lead shot in hand 1899   Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935).  The Yellow Wall Paper    Twentieth Century 1900-1904   William Barclay Parsons (1859-1932).  Diary, Rapid Transit System of New York     Collection of magical prayers and "images" – Manuscript on parchment, Ethiopian 1901-1930   Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919).  Carnegie Corporation of New York Records of College Donations, New York 1902-1904   Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959).  Drawing of dining room, Dana House, Springfield, Illinois 1904   Columbia University Silver cup presented to Edward MacDowell by Columbia students, 1904 1906   K. F. von Gan.   Czar Nicholas II with his family – Photograph     Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967).  Notes and rough drafts 1908   Arthur Rackham (1867 -1939).  Sketchbook for A Midsummer Night's Dream, ca. 1908 1910   Carnegie Family Convention, Pittsburgh – Black and white photograph     Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919).  Typed letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks     Jane Addams (1860-1935).  Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes ... with Illustrations by Norah Hamilton, Hull-House, Chicago 1911   Yatsuka Hozumi (1860-1912).  Kenpō Teiyō [Outline of the Constitution] 1912-1913   Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).  Totem und Tabu     Fortune Theatre Model 1913   Greene & Greene.  Detail drawing of decorative window, Earle C. Anthony House, Los Angeles, California     Emily Grace Briggs (1867-1944).  The Deaconess in the Ancient and Medieval Church: A Study in the History of Christian Institutions 1914   Gertrude Stein (1874-1946).  Tender Buttons, Objects, Food, Rooms 1915   Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940).  The House on Henry Street 1917   Rafael Guastavino (1842-1908).  Drawing for Dater House, Montecito, California     Rafael Guastavino (1842-1908).  Tile made for Dater House     Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).  Two Stories 1918-1919   Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870-1942).  Photograph of slum children, ca. 1918-19     Harold Miller Lewis (1893-1978).  Laboratory notebook, recording Edwin H. Armstrong's discovery of superheterodyne reception 1920   Jo Davidson (1883-1952).  Portrait of V. K. Wellington Koo 1921   Hendrick Petrus Berlage (1856-1934).  Frank Lloyd Wright. Wendingen     Sigmund Freud (1859-1939).  Contract for "The Psycho-Analytic Problem of the War"     Academic cap worn by Marie Curie while receiving honors at American colleges and universities     Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934).  Impressions of America 1923   Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944).  Portrait of Myself 1924   Arthur Rackham (1867-1939).  Self-portrait 1927   Gustav Holst (1874-1934).  Egdon Heath 1929   Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971) and Frederic Dannay (1905-1982).  The Roman Hat Mystery: A Problem in Deduction     Hart Crane (1899-1932).  The Bridge 1930-1931   Lewis Hine (1874-1940).  Photograph of welder, Empire State Building     Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945).  Application to Union Seminary     Elizaveta Kuzmina-Karavaeva Skobtsova (1891-1945).  Untitled     James Joyce (1882-1941).  Ulysses     Thomas W. Lamb (1871-1942).  Drawing for a proposed new lobby, Audubon Ballroom, New York City 1931   Chinese Paper Gods – Chinese paper, ink, and watercolor     Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947).  Medal, Nobel Prize for Peace, 1931     Joseph Urban (1872-1933).  "Blue Nursery Scene," The Ziegfeld Follies, 1931 1932   Tatsukichi Minobe (1873-1948).  Kenpō satsuyō [Principles of the Constitution]     Alexei Remizov (1877-1957).  Deed (Gramota) 1933   Frances Perkins (1880-1965).  Draft notes of reply to F. D. Roosevelt on her nomination to the Cabinet 1934   Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944).  Maquettes made for costumes and scenery for Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thompson's Four Saints in Three Acts 1936   [Pigŭk sosŏl] Pulsanghan insaeng (An unhappy life)     Yŏngsŏn (n.d.).  Syongdo mallyŏn pulgasari chyŏn (The account of a pulgasari in the last years of Songdo) 1937   Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977).  Untitled Poem, Album 1938   Edmonston Studio.   Harlan Fiske Stone with his law clerks – Photograph, Washington, DC. 1939   Rockwell Kent (1882-1971).  Ceramic cup, saucer, plate from the "Moby Dick" pattern 1940   René Bouchet.  Portrait of Bennett Cerf 1942   Béla Bartók (1881-1945).  Rumanian Folk Music 1942-1945   Varian Fry (1907-1967).  Surrender on Demand 1943   Delano and Aldrich.  Marine Terminal, LaGuardia Airport 1944-1947   Ely Jacques Kahn (1884-1972).  Drawing, Dowling Theater, Times Square, New York City 1945   Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968).  Night Has a Thousand Eyes 1946   Peter H. L. Chang (Zhang Xueliang), (1901-2001).  "Recollections of Xian Incident [Review]"     Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965).  Marian Anderson 1947   Harrison & Abramovitz.   Sketch of original plans for United Nations building 1948   Thomas Merton (1915 -- 1968).  The Seven Storey Mountain     Telford Taylor (1908-1998).  Public Relations Photo Section, Office, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Nuremberg, Ger