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...
‘Miscellaneous Drawings of various Plants, Flowers, and Fruits in Indian-Ink, and colours, by different hands’, from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane
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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...
A collection of the laws of the kings of Lombardy, from Rothar to Emperor Henry III, 643-1052. A composite manuscript in two sections: ff. 1r-179v, and ff. 180r-192r, containing: ff. 1r-51r: Edict of Rothar, 643. Prologue 'In nomine Domini' (f. 1), beginning 'Si quis contra animam' (f. 1v) and ...
Willem Canter, Epitome Cassandrae Graecolatina versibus Anacreontis conscripta
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Extract from Canter's 1596 printed edition of Lycophron (Canter, Willem: Lycophronis Chalcidensis Alexandra, sive Cassandra, [Heidelberg], 1596 [VD16 L 7725])
Αὐλικοκάτοπτρον, edited as Αὐλικοκάτοπτρον• sive Estheræ historia, poetica paraphrasi idque Græco carmine, cui versio Latina opponitur, exornata: una cum scholiis seu annotationibus Græcis; […] Additur Parodia Homerica de eadem hac historia (London, 1679).
Αὐλικοκάτοπτρον; written in two columns, mainly on the rectos, perhaps a working autograph, with various annotations both in Greek and Latin, especially on the versos (from f 4v onwards).