Box 1

Content Description From the Collection: In Physicam; Latin Manuscript on Paper.Italy?, mid- to late-18th century.Octavo format manuscript on laid paper, each leaf with a pencil border, text in brown ink, single column throughout in a Latin book-hand, about seventeen lines per page, written over 189 numbered pages, with seven hand-drawn folding diagrams at the end; bound in full contemporary Italian parchment over boards, sponged decoration to leaf edges, 7 1/2 x 5 in.This manuscript may contain...