Double columns on single page., Manuscript fragment on parchment., Page numbers have been added in pencil using original fold., and Pages 4 and 1 have a partial illustration.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De republica, Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Somnium Scipionis, Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis, and Porphyry, ca. 234-ca. 305
Parchment and paper codex, ff. 87 of which f. 1-3 and 6-19 are of paper, the remainder of parchment, with modern pencil foliation throughout. and Personal commonplace book combining skillful drawings of apparatus, alchemical texts in German vernacular with noteworthy literary character--some of them in verse--and numerous practical procedures.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Straight-grained black morocco, gilt single-line perimetric border for each cover and spine, gilt dentelles, and border of the same tools at head and foot of spine, modern tan leather spine label, with legend: HARTUNG V. HOFF VADE MECUM MANUSCRIPT AUSTRIA 1557, Denis Duveen, acquired from Thomas Heller (bookseller), New York, 1949; Mellon MS 71, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., and Script: Written in a small, neat gothic cursive, additions in a neat italic hand and a rather irregular and sometimes scrawling cursive gothic, both perhaps about 1625.
[Utopia], De optimo reip. statu, deque noua insula Vtopia, and De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia
Description:
Colophon: [Printer’s mark] Basileae apvd Io. Frobenlvm mense decembri an M.D.XVIII., Each of the three parts has its own colophon, that of first part, the Utopia, being dated November, 1518. The "Epigrammata" of More and of Erasmus have also special title pages., Initials. Some title page borders and the illustrations on p. [12] and p. [25] are from designs by Ambrosius Holbein., and Irregularities in paging: 8 pages between p. 162 and p. 167 counted in numbering as 4 numbered leaves; several typographical errors.
Achondroplasia, Bones --Diseases --Early works to 1800, Medicine --Research --Great Britain, Rickets --Early works to 1800, Scurvy --Early works to 1800, and Scurvy, Infantile