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A compendium treatise in medicine

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Description: This manuscript, which is written in Turkish by Abubakir Nuşrat, was probably written in 1650 in Turkey (the volume also has some writing from the early 20th century in it). The volume is a treatise about medicine but also deals with astrology. It has charts and some hand-drawn illustrations.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1650.
Call number: mssHM 74828
Creator: Nuşrat, Abubakir(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: On long-term loan from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.
Dimensions: 18 cm :

Treatise on mechanics

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This handwritten treatise, by an unknown author, covers the general subject of mechanics including laws of motion, gravity, velocity, etc. It includes many hand-drawn illustrations and graphs. It is undated and incomplete. It was probably written in the United States in the 1800s.

mssHM 75699

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Proclamation of Sultan of Turkey: handwritten document

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This proclamation, might be made by a sultan of Turkey. It is the authorization for Signor Nicolo Rustann (unsure of name) to act as consul to Italy. It is in old Turkish and Arabic. It is probably a copy of the official document. With note about item.

mssHM 80586

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Anonymous manuscript treatise on pneumatics, air balloons, geology, mines and coal

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The manuscript was written by an unknown author who was probably a male student in England in the 1840s (he mentions an article in a 1837 magazine on ballooning). In it, the author writes generally on several different topics including: pneumatics, air balloons, geology, mines and Sir Humphry Davy, and coal. It contains many hand-drawn diagrams and illustrations (some in color). The volume has many blank pages.

mssHM 76511

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Seventeenth century manuscript with two texts: a library catalogue, and treatise on arithmetic

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Rudimentary library catalog (63 pages) of an unidentified owner, arranged alphabetically, giving abbreviated forms of author and title (with very few dates) for a standard early modern collection of primarily Latin and English tiles on philosophy, history, law, religion, sermons, politics, science, travel, classics. From the back of the volume, written upside-down, has been added a short (37 pages) basic treatise on arithmetic including sections on numbers, weights and measures, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, "reduction of integers," and fractions, with many examples of calculations.

mssHM 70980

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Reginae Eloquentiae Dotes Exerciations Oratoriae : De Phyisognomia : De Sphaera articiali

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A Jesuit educational manuscript combining extensive treatises on rhetoric and geography with a shorter consideration of physiognomy. Though anonymous, a colophon describes the work as having been translated (or transcribed) from his "Eruditissimo Preoeceptore Gardemeau." It is closely written in a single, minute, but neat hand, and contains engraved frontispieces to the three parts depicting Christ, Saint Joseph and Saint Agnes; each frontispiece has the imprint of Parisian engraver and printseller Jacques Honervogt, as well as one unsigned plate depicting the Annunciation. The short treatise on physiognomy outlines the principles of the science of understanding the soul through the physical features of the face. "De Sphaera articiali" includes descriptions and maps of the continents, Asia, Africa and the Americas, while a stub suggests the map of Europe has been removed. The volume has very minor worming to the lower portions of a few leaves and some damage to the spine; covers are contemporary yellow tawed sheep with partially intact ties, with a later paper spine label.

mssHM 83316

Astrological treatises, in English (composite volume, fragment) : [manuscript]

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Part 1. ff. 1-4v. [Astrological treatise]. Incipit: The first howse ys clepid asscendant and the hirne off the est & it is the howse off liffe & hit signifieth bodies & life. Explicit: to be loked to & be consideret. English. Treatise on the twelve houses of the zodiac, each section consisting of a description of the house and a passage referring to the Book of Geomancy; followed by a short paragraph on a thirteenth house. Part 2. ff. 5-16v. De naturis substancialibus planetarum quas habent ex natura propria. Incipit: Hit is to knowe that ther ben .7. planetts the whiche byn thies in her order. Rubric: De naturis substancialibus planetarum quas habent ex natura propria. English. A treatise on elections of times, with headings and passages in Latin, with prologue that begins,"For as moche as every science or craft ooun art for his utilite, Therfore utilite in astronomye standith not only in knowing of the caurs and moving of heven, But principally in pronosticacions and Elections of tymes, Therfore in this tretise y wil determyn of elections of tymes principally.

mssHM 60320

A compendium treatise in medicine

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