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ff. 1-6v. [Torquato Tasso]. Discorso della virtù femminile. Incipit: Alla Serenissima Madama Mia Signora, Sogliono le belle donne con vaghezza rimirare o statua o pittura ove alcuna somiglianza loro si veda espressa, e le giovani particolarmente di vagheggiarsi ne lo specchio e di vedersi ritratte et effigiate hanno vaghezza. Explicit: con queste possono esser accompagnate, ne possono infami o dishonorate in alcun modo esser giudicate, perche l'in//. Italian. The text ends abruptly, on p. 212, line 12 of the Guasti edition. On f. 7r-v, the missing portion of the text is supplied from the 1738 Venice edition. C. Guasti, ed., Le Prose Diverse di Torquato Tasso (Florence 1875) 2:201-14, this manuscript cited on pp. 169-70 with some of its variant readings quoted from the plate in the Libri sale catalogue (see below), as Guasti did not know the location of the manuscript. Dennis Dutschke, "Il discorso tassiano 'De la virtù feminile e donnesca'," Studi tassiani, 32 (1984) pp. 5-28.
mssHM 884
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This manuscript is a treatise on Aristotle's book De generatione et corruptione (On generation and corruption). It includes several hand-drawn illustrations. It is in Latin and undated. Nothing is known about the author and it could be a copy of another authors' text.
mssHM 75695
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This is a manuscript written by Molino after his time as Venetian ambassador to England. In it, he talks about his experiences in England.
mssHM 80993
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Anonymous physics manuscript. Text is written in bold cursive style present on gutter half of each page. Numerous diagrams and illustrations have been drawn opposite text pertinent to discussion of physical phenomenon. This is a meticulously written and illustrated Italian manuscript covering many aspects of pressure, force and mechanics. The margins contain various geometric and surveying diagrams along with scales, hoists and other machines and hydraulics. These subjects are covered in 133 numbered sections dealing with forces on objects, refraction, etc.
mssHM 82553
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This is Pizarro's account of his experience during the Spanish conquest of Peru. In Spanish. ff. iv, 1-166v. [Pedro Pizarro] Relación del descubrimiento y conquista del Perú. Incipit: Muchos son catolico y clementissimo principe los que an escripto las cosas De estos vuestros rreynos Del Peru. Explicit: Y asi ba aqui todo lo que ba escripto con toda berdad acabose esta escriptura Año de mil y quinientos y setenta y un años a siete dias del mes de hebrero. Rubric: Relación Del descubrimiento y conquista De los Reinos del piru y Del govierno y horden que los naturales tenian y tesoros que En ellos se hallaron y de las demas cosas que en el an çubçedido hasta el Dia De su fecha. Spanish. G. Lohmann Villena, ed., Relación del descubrimiento y conquista del Perú, by Pedro Pizarro (Lima 1978) published from this manuscript which is described on pp. xxxvii-xxxviii; see also M. Fernández de Navarrete, Colección de documentos inéditos para la historia de España (Madrid 1844) 5:201-388, an edition of the 32-chapter version published from the manuscript of Martínez del Villar.
mssHM 167
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This manuscript describes a man named Hisa and a woman named Kame during the Edo (also known as Tokugawa) period in Japan. As part of the practice of shumon aratame, they had to stand on a fumi-e, a likeness of Jesus and Mary, to prove that they were not Christians. In the Edo period of Japan, the government used shumon aratame as part of an effort to eradicate Christianity.
mssHM 84473