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Objects and instruments — box 8 of 13
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MS 6591.59
Sanctioned Yellow Tape
Sanctioned Yellow Tape is a category of adhesive barrier tape authorized under the Third Concordance for the demarcation and temporary seali…
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MS 7962.04
Satellite Index
Operated by a certified Index-Tender, a Satellite Index translates the conceptual contiguity of a desmene into a live, navigable map, reconc…
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MS 8925.17
Satellite Indexes
Satellite Indexes are specialized cataloguing instruments, typically installed in the vaulted ceilings of major reading halls or administrat…
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MS 2409.23
Screaming Pillar
Screaming Pillar is an architectural and acoustic feature of the Tower, classified under Unquiet Architecture by the Seventh Concordance, An…
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MS 0139.65
Screaming Pillars
Screaming Pillars are anomalous vertical structures of Ignorance Marble that spontaneously generate sustained, audible frequencies, primaril…
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MS 2628.54
Scribe’s Glass
Scribe's Glass is a crystalline substrate material used exclusively in the fabrication of permanent archival inscription tools, most notably…
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MS 1808.74
Seal of the Silent Inkwell
The Seal of the Silent Inkwell is an officially authorized imprint, stamped or inscribed onto surveying instruments and certain archival doc…
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MS 4375.76
Self-Irrigating Tomes
Self-Irrigating Tomes are a certified category of bibliographical artifact within the Tower, distinguished by their capacity to generate, ci…
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MS 4970.88
Selvage Weaves
The Selvage Weaves (formally Catalogued under Class 44-Gamma: Textile-Based Mnemonics) are a series of fabric panels left by M. Selvage, eac…
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MS 8287.35
Semantic Dampener Array, Mark IV
The Semantic Dampener Array, Mark IV is a Class-7 Theoretical Blueprint for a localized network designed to suppress emergent meaning within…
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MS 2943.82
Service Shaft
Service Shaft is the generic designation for any dedicated vertical conduit in the Tower designed for the transport of personnel, materials,…
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MS 1709.32
Shaft Lambda
Shaft Lambda is a dedicated, mechanized service lift providing vertical transport for personnel and materials to and from the East Unbound S…
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MS 9501.91
Sigil of Passage
The Sigil of Passage is a small, standardized object—most commonly an obsidian disk—engraved or imprinted with the seal of the Silent Divan,…
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MS 8757.20
Sigil of the Closed Fist
Sigil of the Closed Fist is the primary emblem and authority seal of the Scribes of the Closed Loop. It consists of a stylized right hand, c…
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MS 4919.04
Sigma-Glass
Sigma-Glass is a stable amorphous solid, manufactured from processed particulates of the Mourning Glass, used in specialized archival and me…
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MS 8289.13
Sigma-Glass Pane
Sigma-Glass Pane refers to a specialized, quasi-crystalline material employed in the construction and maintenance of observation ports, secu…
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MS 9490.75
Silent Banner of the Whispering Galleries
The Silent Banner of the Whispering Galleries is a heraldic textile, classified under Ontological Class 7-B (Symbols of Unuttered Authority)…
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MS 4762.38
Silent Bell
Silent Bell is a specific, non-functional brass bell catalogued on the lower Stacks of Floor 1,442 (The Anechoic Galleries), classified unde…
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MS 3275.70
Silent Cabinet
The Silent Cabinet is a Class-3 Inert Storage Unit housed within Stacks 11-Gamma of Floor 307. Constructed from a single block of unpolished…
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MS 9422.06
Silent Column apparatus
The Silent Column apparatus is a categorical designation within the Tower's archival taxonomy for any physical device or system whose primar…
Arrangement within a series is by title. Box numbers describe the present arrangement and are not a permanent feature of the holding.