Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae
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Guido delle Colonne ['de Columnis' or 'de Columna'], Historia destructionis Troiae (A History of the Destruction of Troy) or Historia troiana, in 35 books with a prologue and epilogue. This Latin prose version, based on the Roman de Troie by Benoit de St Maure, was adapted by Guido delle Colon...
22 charts and views, mostly taken during Captain James Cook's voyage in the Resolution through the Pacific and Southern Oceans
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Twenty charts, many with views appended, which were taken during the voyage of Captain James Cook in the Resolution, where he sailed through the Pacific and Southern Oceans. There are also two views depicting islands off the coast of Brazil, which appear to be unrelated to the voyages of James ...
A VOLUME of miscellaneous drawings, formerly belonging to the Sloane Collection, and containing- Drawings of antiquities in the pagoda at Canorin [Kenneri] in the Isle of Salsett, with a short description, sent by [Charles] Boone, [Governor of Bombay,] to Sir Hans Sloane, as appears by a note to him prefixed from David Guerin. f. 1 ;-Drawings of pillars in the temples of Elephanta and Cannara, f. 7 ;-Two plans of the fortress of Angria, the Pirate, and the Island of Culap [Colabba]. on the c...
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includes: f. 1 Island of Salsette: Drawings of antiquities at Kenneri. f. 1 Charles Boone, Governor of Bombay: Drawings of antiquities at Kenneri sent by him to Sir H. ff. 1,7 Kenneri, Isle of Salsette: Drawings of pillars in the temple. f. 7 Elephanta, India: Drawings of pillars there. f. ...
DRAWINGS, in Indian ink, illustrative of Capt. Cook's first voyage, 1768 -1770, chiefly relating to Otaheite and New Zealand, by A. Buchan, John F. Miller, and others.
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John Frederic Miller: Drawings in Captain Cook's first voyage: 1768-1770. Captain James Cook: Drawings of headlands, etc, in his first voyage: 1768-1770. Alexander Buchan: Drawings of headlands, etc., in Capt. Cook's first voyage: 1768-1770. All the items after folios 1-9 in this volume were ...
Roll of New Year’s Gifts given by and to King James I, 1 Jan 1605, at the Palace of Westminster
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Roll of New Year’s Gifts given by and to King James I, 2 Jac. I (i.e. 1 Jan 1605) at the Palace of Westminster. The roll is faded in places, and the recto, the list of New Year’s gifts of plate by the King, is incomplete. Evidently the very first membrane of recipients has been lost: Earls and ...
Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium ac popularium super ludo scaccorum; Libellus moralis Senece; Liber moralis de quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus; Liber septem philosophorum (The Seven Sages of Rome)
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Contents: ff. 1r-47r: Jacobus de Cessolis, Ordinis Praedicatorum: Libellus de moribus ad ludi Scacchorum scienciam descriptus (Moralised Book of Chess), in Latin. There are four books or treatises: 1, the Background of the Game; 2, the Noble Figures; 3, the Commoners; 4, the Openings and Moves...
Contents: This manuscript is a so-called ‘Heiligthumsbuch’ that itemizes the relics of Bamberg Cathedral and those of some nearby churches. It contains descriptions of relics with 133 illustrations of reliquaries from Bamberg Cathedral, the churches of St Stephen, St James and St Gangolf, and t...