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Philosophia naturalis

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: Approximately 1680.
Call number: mssHM 83384
Creator: Rinaldini, Carlo (1615-1698)(Opens in new tab)
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Carlo Maria Bonaparte university lecture notes

Manuscripts

Untrimmed, written in a neat cursive hand. Possibly lacking the first leaf with title to the first section. Text in Latin with some annotations in Italian. With 34 pen and ink drawings in the text.

mssHM 82471

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The memorial : portrait of a family : manuscript

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A bound autograph manuscript by Christopher Isherwood; with a 98 word inscription to W. H. Auden, dated January, 1933. The final page is also dated: "London Sep. 1928" and "Berlin Nov. 1930," many of the pages have been trimmed to various lengths and there is some staining but no loss of text.

mssHM 83281

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Delle forze in generale

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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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The ancient phisicians last legacy to his country -- being what he has collected himself in forty nine years practice

Manuscripts

This is a manuscript transcription written in an unknown hand; bound in vellum with some staining to the covers and initial pages. According to a note by Alan Jutzi (former Chief Curator of Rare Books) "K Donahue at UCLA verifies that this has been copied from post 1742 printed text." The volume was previously in the library of Edward Alexander Tompkins, M.D. (1813-1880) at Grass Valley, CA.

mssHM 82864

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Physica generalis

Manuscripts

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

Poems and problems : manuscript, approximately 1622-1632

Manuscripts

A collection of 123 poems by John Donne, plus his Paradoxes, Problems and characters; together with individual poems by others such as Ben Jonson, Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, John Hoskyns, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Henry Wotton and Henry Constable. Paper, 194 leaves (leaves 141r-61v and 185v-194v blank). Two blank leaves inserted following leaf 1. Two blank endleaves bound in at end. In a single, neat, predominantly roman hand (entries on ff. 105v-15r in a less neat cursive hand), and with various corrections or emendations throughout possibly in another hand, written circa 1622-32. Binding: contemporary vellum, with initials "F. B.[i.e. Frances Bridgewater]" in gilt on front cover surrounding a smudged watercolour central oval on front cover. Fragments of leaves from an unidentified manuscript used along hinges. In case.

mssEL 6893

Philosophia naturalis

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