FACSIMILES, executed by hand, of ancient writing and illuminations from manuscripts in the British Museum, Bodleian, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Lambeth, and other Libraries, apparently collected by Thomas Astle. Amongst them are a few single leaves, vellum, of original manuscripts, inclu...
"LEXICON Diplomaticum Graecum: or an Interpretation of abbreviations in Greek manuscripts, compiled by John Caravalla, a native of Greece, from original manuscripts, for the use of Doctor Mead" [Richard Mead, M.D., 1673-1754]. Paper; ff. 51. XVIIIth cent. Presented to Tho. Astle by Edwin [Sandys...
SPECIMENS of Latin and Greek type, with alphabets of various languages, numerals, abbreviations, etc. Written with printer's ink, in closest imitation of printed type, by J. Thomasen of Chester, 1726. Paper; ff. 8. Small Octavo. Typography: Specimens of Latin and Greek type, by J. Thomasen: 172...
COLLECTION Of philosophical and scientific treatises, in Latin, in one hand, accompanied at the end by a few neatly-drawn and coloured illustrative figures. The MS. was probably written for use at the Jesuit College of Clermont-Ferrand. The contents are:-(1) "Tractatus ad quatuor libros Aristote...
Contents: A physician's portable almanac consisting of: ff. 1r-4v: Calendar, with tables of cycles calculated from 1482 to 1520; f. 5r-v: Indictiones, Festa Mobilia, Tabula planetarum; f. 5v: Tabula lunæ, and Homo Signorum (the influence of the signs of the Zodiac on man); f. 6r: Homo ...
Contents: f. 1r: A set of religious devotions in English, written by Edward Seymour (b. c. 1500, d. 1552), duke of Somerset, from the Tower of London, on the day before his execution, 22 January 1522. f. 2r-v: Table of contents. f. 3r-v: Calendar. ff. 4r-31v: An almanac, containing a ser...
This manuscript consists of the 'First Family' of bestiaries, with a text derived from the Physiologus with additions from Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636)'s Etymologies (Etymologies) (see McCulloch, Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries (1962) p. 31; Payne, Medieval Beasts (1990) p. 12). ...
NOTES on John Hunter's classification of the Animal Kingdom, taken (according to a statement at the end) "from a slight view of Mr. Hunter's experiments and preparations. They are, in the first place, imperfect; in the next, they way be erroneous in many particulars." Paper; ff. 11. Belonged to ...
"MATTHIÆ DE LOBEL [L'Obel], M.D., Botanographi Regii eximii, Stirpium Illustrationes." Printed (somewhat more fully) under the editorship of William How, London, 1655. At the end (f. 72) is added, in the same hand, "Theatri Botanici Joannis Parkinsoni (pr. 1640) ['A a."] This is also printed, as...
