Sapienti veterum sive doctrina earundem de summe e universali medicina, qua sanitas humana... conservatur. With watercolour plates. [In Latin]. XVIIIth century.
[On f1v]: 'Fr Wolfgangus Schwabpaur me procuravit 1704.'
[This is a 'Crowning of Nature' manuscript. Text in Latin with the 67 illustrations in well executed watercolours with use of gold and silver inks.]
Has extra drawing numbered 68 on final folio, showing lion and eagle supporting triangle, while dove descends from Sun, which has downward pointing triangle. Dove bears a cloud which it places on the vertex of the lower triangle which points upwards.
Sapienti veterum
This material is held atUniversity of Glasgow Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 247 MS Ferguson 110
- Dates of Creation
- 17--
- Language of Material
- Latin
- Physical Description
- Sm. 4to. 139 folios. 20.1x15.5 cm. Bd. in vellum
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