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LEIDEN [4 records]

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Record 1 2007-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Christian Theology
OBS

... IOSOT, the International Organisation for the Study of the Old Testament... was founded in 1950 in Leiden, the Netherlands, as an international non-profit organization to promote scholarly study in Old Testament Scripture and related fields.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Théologies chrétiennes
OBS

Organisation internationale pour l'étude de l'Ancien Testament : traduction non officielle donnée à titre d'information seulement.

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • System Names
OBS

ICONCLASS is a subject specific international classification system for iconographic research and the documentation of images. It was developed by Henri van de Waal(1910-1972), Professor of Art History at the University of Leiden, and completed by his staff. ICONCLASS is a collection of ready-made definitions of objects, persons, events, situations and abstract ideas that can be the subject of an image. ICONCLASS organizes iconography into 10’ main divisions’, each containing hierarchically ordered definitions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de systèmes

Spanish

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Record 3 2004-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Ville des Pays-Bas, en Hollande-Méridionale.

OBS

Le nom d'une entité habitée adopte le genre de son pseudo-générique, sous-entendu : «la Rome éternelle» (le nom d'une ville); «le Vieux-Montréal» (un nom de quartier). Le nom d'une ville située à l'extérieur du Canada et comprenant un article défini initial adopte habituellement le genre de cet article : La Haye, Le Caire, La Nouvelle-Orléans. L'accord se fait cependant toujours au singulier, même si un élément du spécifique est pluriel : «(La ville de Trois-Rivières est située sur le (fleuve) Saint-Laurent.».

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
OBS

The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO has undertaken a project jointly with the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, Netherlands, and the Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification(EIT) in Amsterdam, Netherlands, aimed at the development of a Register of Marine Organisms, principally as a tool to assist governments in the implementation process of the Convention on Bilogical Diversity.

Key term(s)
  • Register of Marine Organisms

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
Key term(s)
  • Registre des organismes marins

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de monografías
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
Key term(s)
  • Registro de Organismos Marinos
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