Latin translation of Hephaestion, Enchiridion, by Vincente Mariner Valentine, with descriptions, a preface, and a translated Latin epigram
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ff. 2r-7v: Vincente Mariner Valentine, Preface addressed to Francisco de Rioja, librarian and poet. Latin. ff. 8r-8v: Vincente Mariner Valentine, Epigram addressed to Francisco de Rioja, with a Latin translation. ff. 9r-136v: Vincente Mariner Valentine, Latin translation of Hephaestian's Enchi...
Synopses of works by Aristotle, Ps.-Aristotle, and Porphyry, with extracts from Pindar
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Synopses of works by Aristotle and Ps.-Aristotle, with extracts from Pindar, arranged as follows: ff. 2r-41v: Synopsis of Aristotle's Naturalis auscultatio. Partly Latin, at ff. 36r-41v. ff. 42r-65v: Synopsis of Aristotle's Meteorologica. Partly Latin, at ff. 64r-65v. ff. 66r-149v: Synopsis o...
Orion of Thebes, Etymologicon, transcript with notes by Jean-François Boissonade, containing indices, correspondence, and additional extracts
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MS 118: ff. 1r-2r: Letter to Charles Burney from Jean-François Boissonade, in Latin, 1801. ff. 3r-4r: Letter to Charles Burney from James Payne, [?1801]. ff. 6r-7r: Index of authors. ff. 8r-77r: Orion of Thebes, Etymologicon Α - Ξ, transcribed from Paris, Bibliothèque National, MS grec 2653....
Charles Burney's extracts from the 1784 edition of the surviving works of the ancient Greek lyrical poet Anacreon (c. 575 – c. 495 BC) by Gianbattista Bodoni (b. 1740, d. 1813).
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 1r-172r), followed (ff. 172r-173v) without break by the preface; added anonymous alphabetical index, on paper (ff. 174r-189v). Decoration: Decorated with a faceted initial enmeshed in knotwork designs, in colours on a gold field with cusped edges (f. 2r), the...
Collection of works by Greek lyric poets, including Anacreon, Alcaeus, Sappho, Stesichorus, and Ibycus. Occasional marginal notes with variants of Henri Estienne and T. Faber.