(Gr. liv.) GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS Of Alexander Dalrymple, Hydrographer to the East India Company (1779) and to the Admiralty (1795-1808), viz.:- 1. Accounts of Mauritius, Bourbon, Madagascar, and Ascension, with a few charts and drawings. ff. 2, 13, 18, 20. Printed by Dalrymple in the Orient...
Autograph presentation copy with manuscript map of Essex (f. 3), by John Norden, cartographer (c. 1547-1625). With a dedicatory address to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565-1601), whose arms and quarterings are emblazoned on f. 4. Presented by John Norden ‘in the interims of the fittes of...
Antonio Francesco Doni, La Lumiera (autograph manuscript)
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This manuscript contains an autograph copy of La Lumiera, an Italian poem in fifty eight-line stanzas, written by Antonio Francesco Doni (b. 1513, d. 1574). The poem is a lament that mourns the ultimate fate of man and his failings in the world. It is preceded in the manuscript by a short letter...
f 1r Copy of a letter from the Patriarch Jeremias addressed to the priests of Crete, forbidding them to have more than one godfather in baptism. f 1v Memorandum on the Fall of Constantinople (cf. Hasluck 1923, pp. 165-66; Browning 1952). ff 2r-9v Fragment of a Triodion, starting with Sunday o...
ff 12r-198r Matthew Blastares, Collectio alphabetica (TLG 3237.001; PG 144.953). Preceded on ff 11r-v by a single leaf of a table of contents, added later. The table proper, as usual, follows the preface (ff 23r-28r). lnserted in the body of the work are the following: ff 55r-v (Included in th...