This small-sized luxury prayerbook was produced in France around 1520, but apparently owned by an anonymous English woman in or before 1530. It features holograph inscriptions of King Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey addressed to her. The manuscript’s full-page illustrations are in the style of th...
An extract from the Hümayun-name, the fables of Bidpa'i, freely translated from Persian, in which they are known as the Anvar-i Suhayli, by Ali İbn-i Salih. The current extract is the story of the hermit, the fox, the procurer and the wives of the shoemaker and the barber (the eighth story of Bab...
The fables of Bidpa'i, freely translated from Persian, in which they are known as the Anvar-i Suhayli, by Ali İbn-i Salih. Ali Çelebi was a native of Edirne and was commonly known as Vasi' Alisi because he had started his career as assistant, or müeyyid, to the professor Mevlana Abdulvasi'. Abd...
This manuscript contains the Liber astrologiae of Georgius Fendulus (12th century), an abbreviated Latin version of the astrological work of Abu Ma'shar (b. 787, d. 886). It is a close copy of Paris, BnF, MS Lat. 7330 (1220-40), and it may have served as the exemplar for New York, Morgan Library...
Gottifredus Vendelinus: Dissertatio de M. Manilii poemate astronomico: 17th cent. Pieter Rosa, Governor of Froidmont, President of Holland: MS. was dedicated to by G. Wendelin. Marcus Manilius: Dissertatio in Astronomicon, a G. Wendelino: 17th cent.
Thomas Ramsæus, Lithuanus: De cataractis oculorum ex iv. v. et vi. parte ophthalmodulias G. Bartesii; Dissertatio theoretico-practica e Germanico in Latinum conversa per: 1694. George Bartesius, Germanus: De cataractis oculorum ex Quarta, Quinta et Sexta parte Ophthalmodulias ejus: 1694.: Lat. ...
Sloane 1161 Paper, in 12mo., ff. 69, XVII Century. A poem in six-line stanzas, intitled, 'Ανθρωποποιια: Theological reflections on God's Admirable master-peece; or profitable instructions from the creation of man, relating to his visible/invisible nature, his body/soule. As also the originall ...
1331, 1332 Chartacei, in 8vo minori, ff. 111, secXVII; anno 1688 peculium Laurentii Oliphant. Excerpta quaedam ex operibus Michaelis Ettmulleri. ff. 1-47; ff. 1-48; ff. 1-17.
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Laurence Oliphant, MD of Leyden: Notæ ex Etmulero: 1688. Owners of Manuscripts: Olipant (Laurentius): 1688. Michael Ettmueller: Excerpta ex operibus ejus: 17th cent.