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'Divine aenigms and pious problems', poems by John Donne, son of Dr John Donne, Dean of St Paul's.
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Identifier: MS.634
Scope and Contents
The poems are dedicated to Francis, Baron Newport, afterwards Earl of Bradford. There are three illustrative diagrams, the ‘ensignes’ of the twelve Patriarchs, and ‘an index of most remarkable matters’.
Dates:
17th century.
Treatises on medicine, astronomy and astrology written by Francisco Argilagues of Valencia, mostly while he was studying medicine at Siena in 1472-1473, with an addition made at Padua in 1480.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.2
Scope and Contents
From the subscriptions and the physical make-up of the volume it appears that there were originally four booklets, bound together a century later.The contents of the volume are as follows:- Written in 1472 with additions in 1480:`Sermo de conservatione sanitatis` by Filippe Bandini of Arezzo (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 1294). The beginning is lost but author (Philip de Roderia) and title (`Regimen...
Dates:
1472-1480.