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Carlo Maria Bonaparte university lecture notes
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Philosophia naturalis
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Scientific manuscript containing the text of lectures delivered by Rinaldini at the University of Padua. As well as discussions of Galileo's work, the manuscript also contains an account of Rinaldini's own discoveries, including that of the convection of heat. Latin text in a neat cursive hand with many illustrative diagrams in the text. Contemporary vellum-backed boards covered in paper with decorative floral motifs, with some damp staining but no loss of text.
mssHM 83384
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Leaf of music from a liturgical work
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Italian, text is in Latin; with decorated initials. A previous owner had it trimmed for framing; there are autograph notes (in pencil) at the bottom of the leaf with directions for the framer.
mssHM 82637
Aurelii Cornelii Celsi Medicinae liber primus incipit
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Royal quarto, with paper measuring 28.2 x 20.2 cm. Text in one column. Capital spaces with guide letters. Signatures: a-i⁸ K⁸ l-s⁸ [t]⁸ (a1, t8 blank). Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf a1) lacking. First initial decorated in red, blue, and green inks along with gold leaf; subsequent initials in red and blue. Rubrication in red and blue. Binding: contemporary Italian blindstamped calf over wooden boards; remnants of leather clasps. In box.
102897
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Oxfordshire : described with ye citie and the armes of the colledges of ye famous university
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Detached from the author's The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine. 1611 (cf. RB #69520 v.2). Includes inset of Oxford; arms of colleges, Oxford University, Elfred (founder of Oxford), Vere, Earl of Oxford, and the royal arms. With descriptive text on recto of first leaf; list of Oxfordshire Hundreds on verso of 2nd leaf; with notation of "Fol. 45" and "Fol. 46", signature M2 on first leaf. Initial; text leaf 1 in two columns with side-bars; leaf 2 in six columns. Removed from RB 69520, volume 2. Submap: Oxford. Figures: Oxford scholars. Border: Coats of Arms of Colleges. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
497301
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Physica generalis
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The volume contains the text for a manuscript entitled "Physica generalis" which may be written by Carlo Barletti. The manuscript is annotated by Alessandro Volta. The text and annotations are in Italian.
mssHM 72870
Cornelii Celsi De medicina liber incipit
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Edited by Bartolomaeus Fontius, in collaboration with Franciscus Saxettus. Chancery folio and Royal quarto, with paper measuring 27.2 x 19.8 cm. One column of text, 34 lines; area of text: 18 x 11 cm. With initial spaces and guide-letters; without foliation and catchwords, except for one catchword on leaf pi6. Quires pi and a-x, leaves y2.5, y3.4, z2.5 and z3.4 are folio; rest are quarto.--Cf. BM 15th cent., IV, p. 627. Signatures: pi⁶ a⁴ b-i⁶ l-z⁶ &⁶ 2a-g⁶ 2h⁴ A⁸ (A8 blank). Imperfect: gathering A (the Tabula) lacking. Binding: red morocco; in green morocco solander case.
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