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ARCHIVE (Lat. archivum, a transliteration of Gr. frpxtlov, an official building), a term (generally used in the plural " archives "), properly denoting the building in which are kept the records, charters and other papers belonging to any state, community or f ...

ARCHITRAVE (from Lat. arcus, an arch, and trabs, trabem, a beam), an architectural term for the chief beam which carries the superstructure and rests immediately on the columns. In the ordinary entablature it is the lowest of the three divisions, the other two

ARCHIVOLT (from Lat. arcus, an arch, and volta, a vault), an architectural term applied to the mouldings of an architrave, when carried round an arched opening.

ARCH, JOSEPH (1826- ), English politician, founder of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union, was born at Barford, a village in Warwickshire, on the loth of November 1826. His parents belonged to the labouring class. He inherited a strong sentiment of inde

... e, in addition to the works cited in the article SPAIN (section History), " Les Archives d'Aragon et de Navarre," by L. Cadier, in Bibliotheque de Vfjcole des Charles, 49 (Paris, 1888). Among the more important original authorities, the following may be select ...

... degree of palaeographk archivist. He was placed in control of the departmental archives of Aube, and remained in that position until 1880, when he retired on a pension. He published several volumes of inventorial abstracts, a Rtpertoire archtologique du depar ...

... matics. Alfred Arneth studied law, and became an official of the Austrian state archives, of which in 1868 he was appointed keeper. He was a moderate liberal in politics and a supporter of the ideal of German unity. As such he was elected to the Frankfort parl ...

... nasium, a teachers' and art school, a building (1880) to contain the provincial archives, a hospital (1889) and barracks. On account of its proximity to the fertile Bctuwe district and its situation near the confluence of the Rhine and Ysel, the markets and sh ...

... est, and wrote learned works for these bodies. He collaborated in preparing the archives of the scientific congress at Tours in 1847; brought out two editions of the MSS. of his great-grand-uncle, the minister of foreign affairs under Louis XV., under the titl ...

... oms with paintings by Johan van Neck, a collection of local antiquities and the archives. Other interesting buildings are the orphanage (1616), containing some 1 7th and iSth century portraits and ancient leather hangings; the weigh-house (1559), the upper sto ...

... eresting town-hall, dating from the 1 5th century, and containing very valuable archives. In its neighbourhood, surrounded by pine forests, are the baths of Bart fa, with twelve mineral springs — iodate, ferruginous and alkaline — used for bathing and drinking ...

... er. 33. Principal cloister. 34. Court of the evangelists. 35. Prior's cell. 36. Archives. 37. Old church. 38. Visitors' hall. 39. Manuscript library. 40. Convent refectory. Prom frtujri urn site bibliotkeca oriental is, published at Heidelberg in 1658, and ano ...

... nd how the child's words were written down by the amazed folk, and became their archives and the source of their law. Coming down to historic times we find that their code, known as the libri disciplinae Elruscae, consisted of various parts (Festus, s.v. " Rit ...

... The number of books referred to as read is enormous. He also had access to the archives of state, and gathered from them information beyond the reach of most. But the value of his work is due, not simply to' the sources employed, but also to the use made of t ...

... described in the MSS. as jifryot xapro^Xai (chief keeper of the ecclesiastical archives), he must have been a Christian. He was the author of The Story ofHysmine and Hysminias, in eleven books, a tedious and inferior imitation of the Cleilophon and Leitcippe ...

TABULARIUM (tabula, board, picture, also archives, records), the architectural term given to the Record office in ancient Rome, which was built by Q. Lutatius Catulus, the conqueror of the Cimbri. It was situated on the west side of the Forum Romanum, and its ...

... lomatic correspondence of the Republic in the state department, the Nacogdoches archives and the W. D. Miller papers in the state library, and the Bexar archives and the Guy M. Bryan (Austin) papers in the university. TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from lexe ...

... ery state there are a secretary of state, who is custodian of the documents and archives, and a treasurer. Nearly nlnlstra- everywnere there are also a comptroller or auditor, who a state" keeps the accounts and is the principal financial_ officer, live Office ...

... nd his house at Santa Maria Formosa to be held in trust for students. The state archives are housed in the Franciscan monastery at the Frari. They contain the voluminous and invaluable records of the Venetian republic, diplomatic, judicial, commercial, notaria ...