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The ancient form of entering a judgment for a debt...: notes concerning forms of entering judgements
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An unfinished dictionary of persons, places, etc. associated with Roman Britain (entries A through C only), followed by working notes and extracts from other sources; with additional notes, in another hand, on medieval England. The manuscript is undated. Volume 1 is 351 pages. Volume 2 is 273 pages.
mssHM 154
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Two manuscript volumes of lecture notes written by an unidentified American student (possibly with the initials "C.H."); written in a legible hand with numerous diagrams and illustrations in the text. The lectures were held at the Polytechnikum Karlsruhe in Germany (now the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe). Volume 1, dated 1861-1864, contains lecture notes on the construction of machinery and is followed by the printed text of Tafeln zu Dr. Redtenbacher's Vortragen uber Maschinenbau in 13 nach dem Vortrag folgenden Lieferungen, 1862. Volume 2, dated 1862-1863, contains notes from the lectures of Reinhard Baumeister, Franz Keller and Hermann Sternberg; the lectures cover such subjects as bridges, cofferdams, practical arched construction, the Mt. Cenis tunnel, water works, and the process of tendering. Both volumes are damaged, with missing spines, though a portion of the spine from Volume 2 has been preserved.
mssHM 83387 (Vols. 1-2)
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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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Burley's book of commentaries on the eighth book of physics by Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) The volume is noteworthy for being written on paper rather than vellum, and features a classic Latin hand with seven major initials in gold and colors, and later comments in the borders. Numbered in modern hand in pencil on pages 36, 60, 95, 173, 197, 226. Renumbered in pencil on bottom page, outer corner prior to rebinding in 2022.
mssHM 75077
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Two manuscripts with four leaves. The first manuscript, in English, includes notes, commentaries and Biblical references; the second manuscript, in Latin, deals with calendars and months of the year. These leaves were originally laid into Biblica Sacra (1592), though the original note of transfer states: "These four leaves (two of which seem to be in one hand, two in another)...apparently have no particular connection with the book itself."
mssHM 83588
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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