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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5119, f 6v
Title:: Treatise on the ages of man
Scope & Content:: Cf. A. Delatte, Etudes sur la litterature pythagoricienne, (Paris: Champion, 1915), 187.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5119, ff 4-5
Title:: Ps.-Hippocrates, De pulsibus et de temperamentis corporis humani
Scope & Content:: Incomplete, chapters 1-5 only. Ed. J. Jouanna, 'Un traité pseudo-hippocratique inédit sur les quatre humeurs (Sur le pouls et sur le tempérament humain)' in: A. Kolde, A. Lukinovich, A.-L. Rey, Mélanges offerts à André Hurst, (Paris, 2005), pp. 449-461: 450-451.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5119. ff 4-7v, 63-66v
Title:: Hippocrates, Ad Galenum liber de pulsibus et de temperamentis
Scope & Content:: Ed. J. Jouanna, 'Un traité pseudo-hippocratique inédit sur les quatre humeurs (Sur le pouls et sur le tempérament humain)', in: A. Kolde, A. Lukinovich, A. - L. Rey (edd), Mélanges offerts à André Hurst, Paris, 2005, pp. 449-461
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5253
Title:: 'Collections of Costumes of various nations, Chiefly Indian; Chinese Buildings, &c.', from the Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, by different hands
Scope & Content:: Drawings of inhabitants of several parts of the world from a variety of sources. Drawings 1-2, 8-11, 14-17, 23-25 and 28-29 are associated with the traveller and artist, John White (fl. 1577-1593). Hans Sloane commissioned watercolour copies from an album now in the British Museum Prints &...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (78 drawings)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5259
Title:: Drawings and notes on human and animal anatomy
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains anatomical images and representations of pathological conditions affecting the human body. Some of the inscriptions on these drawings feature historic language. Where these inscriptions have been transcribed, they are enclosed in inverted commas. Drawings and manuscript...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (231 items)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5289
Title:: ‘Miscellaneous Drawings of various Plants, Flowers, and Fruits in Indian-Ink, and colours, by different hands’, from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane
Scope & Content:: Album of drawings of plants by miscellaneous hands and of differing origin and date. The first 99 drawings in this album are those of Philippine plants sent by the Jesuit Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706) to James Petiver (1665-1718), many of which were used as the basis for the engravings in Pet...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6895
Title:: Butterfly and Moth Paintings by Elizabeth Dennis Denyer ('Drawings of Lepidopterous Insects')
Scope & Content:: Book of butterfly and moth paintings by Elizabeth Dennis Denyer (1765/6-1824), based on specimens collected mostly in the environs of London and housed in the collection of William Jones of Chelsea (1745-1818). The paintings are preceded by notes and an index (ff. 1r-7r) that lists the specimen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1800
Extent:: 66 folios

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