http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-26198471 Like its contents, the history of ownership of the Voynich manuscript is contested and filled with some gaps. The codex belonged to Emperor Rudolph II of Germany (Holy Roman Emperor, 1576-1612), who purchased it for 600 gold ducats and... Continue Reading →
376G Melanchthon, Philipp. 1497-1560 Philippi Melanchthonis Philosophiae moralis epitomae libri duo emendati & aucti : nam tres virtutes additae, quintus Aristotelis totus immutatus : accessit etiam tractatus De autoritate principum & alter De arbore consanguinitatis & affinitatis, & index copiosus. Argentorati... Continue Reading →
361G Mather, Cotton. 1663-1728 Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New England, from its First Planting in the Year 1620. Unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. In Seven Books. I. Antiquities: In Seven Chapters. With an Appendix.... Continue Reading →
Henricus de Herpf (c. 1410-1477) Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. Speyer: Peter Drach, [after 17 January 1484, not after 1486] sold Folio: 31.4 x 21.5 cm. 428 leaves, 48 lines, two columns. Collation: “1”8, “2”10, a-m8, n6, o-p8,... Continue Reading →
345G Over the last twenty years I have been lucky enough to have had and sold all of the "Wit's series" : Wits commonwealth, Published first in 1597, as the first in a series of which Mere’s "Palladis tamia"( I had... Continue Reading →
A few Blogs/Days ago I wrote about a 1644 Index Librorvm Prohibitorvm and I wrote " ‘collect them all, watch it grow…" http://wp.me/p3kzOR-O6. Well because of the blog, some one, an interested and interesting reader offered me one... I 'had' to... Continue Reading →
Lucretius, has always made me feel hopeful and some how more connected to the universe and less to the subjective problems we perceive. "Happy is he who has discovered the causes of things and has cast beneath his feet all... Continue Reading →
If ideas were easy, everyone would have them. The "Poetic astronomy by the most renowned Hyginus, a most useful work," Is such an idea that everyone can have, there is nothing so available to everyone as the sky. In a... Continue Reading →
In 1980 I published my first poem in a non 'student edited" journal, of course I didn't ascribe my success to my University or even my Religion but such was 1980. Here is a class publication from the Jesuit College... Continue Reading →
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