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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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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
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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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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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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
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Huntington Library copy divided into two volumes: vol.1 contains [46] pages (gatherings a-b⁸ c⁸(-c8)); vol. 2 contains [90] pages (leaf c8, gatherings d-h⁸ i⁴). Secretum secretorum was a popular, widely disseminated text in the Middle Ages; it was believed to have been written by Aristotle for Alexander the Great. The Latin text of Secretum secretorum was translated from the Arabic Kitab Sirr al-asrar by Philip of Tripoli, early in the thirteenth century. Translated by Philippus Tripolitanus. Also includes John of Wales' De instructione principum (leaves c8r-g8r), and Breviloquium de philosophia sanctorum (leaves g8v-i3r). Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 18.3 x 13.2 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 13.3 x 8.5 cm. Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁸(-c8) (a1 blank) [whole work: a-h⁸ i⁴ (a1, i4 blank)]. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf a1) lacking. Initials in red. Binding: half calf with marbled paper.
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