One of the most influential documents in the history of medieval scientific attitudes toward women
911J Henricus Suso, (1295-1366). ed. Elsbeth Stagel (1300-1360) Horologiu[m] eternae sapientiae. Köln Cornelius von Zierickzee 1503 . Price $7,500 Octavo 14 × 10.5 cm. 128 leaves. Signatures: A-Q8 Date in the colophon: M.ccccc.iij. mensis Septembris ipso die Marcelli. With title‐woodcut with four‐part border and... Continue Reading →
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46th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum The Body in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 958J Albertus Magnus. https://jamesgray2.me/2026/03/03/an-annotated-1508-de-secretis-mulierum-medieval-version-of-our-bodies-ourselves/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/03/03/an-annotated-1508-de-secretis-mulierum-medieval-version-of-our-bodies-ourselves/ 284J Aristotle/ Burley. https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/30/aristotle-and-burley-2/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/30/aristotle-and-burley-2/ 601J Augustine. https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/24/601j-augustinus-pseudo/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/24/601j-augustinus-pseudo/ 658J Eusebius (Jerome). https://jamesgray2.me/2025/02/03/eusebius-la-vita-el-transito-1487/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/02/03/eusebius-la-vita-el-transito-1487/ 525J Ficino (see also 935J). https://jamesgray2.me/2025/09/17/annotated-letters-of-marsilio-ficino-1497/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/09/17/annotated-letters-of-marsilio-ficino-1497/... Continue Reading →
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Nam digiti scripto laetantur, lumina visu Mens volvet sensu mystica verba Dei The fingers rejoice in writing, the eyes in seeing, and the mind at examining the meaning of God’s mystical words.” 351J* . Hrabanus Maurus. 784-856? Magnencij Rabani Mauri De... Continue Reading →
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Merian’s great “Bilderbibel,” reissued in Amsterdam with English text for export—complete, finely bound, and preserving the full narrative richness of the seventeenth century’s most influential engraved Bible cycle. 962J. Merian, Matthäus 1593-1650 Icones Biblicæ, praecipuas sacræ scripturæ historias eleganter et graphicè representantes.=... Continue Reading →
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493J John Radcliffe (1650-1714) Pharmacopoeia Radcliffeana: or, Dr. Radcliff’s prescriptions, faithfully gather’d from his original recipe’s. To which are annex’d, useful observations upon each prescription. [By Edward Strother.] London : printed for Charles Rivington, at the Bible and Crown, against... Continue Reading →
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Myographia Nova 963J John Browne 1642-1700? Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in the humane body, as they arise in dissection: distributed into six lectures. At the Entrance into which, Are Demonstrated the proper Muscles belonging... Continue Reading →
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