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Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MANUSCRIPT S—continued. ENGLISH (EARLY) XIVth CENTURY: | 112 BIBLIA SACRA.—ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT on VELLUM, written | in a minute but beautiful pen-hand, in double columns, 40 lines to a column, on 575 leaves, with 80 FINE INITIAL LETTERS IN GOLD AND coLours, hundreds of smaller capitals in red and blue, rubricated throughout, thk. 12mo. [6 by 4 in.], OLD ENGLISH RED VELVET (worn), circa 1320 | £50 English manuscripts of the early 14th Century are-of the greatest rarity. The beautiful capitals that decorate this MS. are of English workmanship under the influence of Celtic interlacements with their accompanying monsters. Many of them extend the whole length of the column and expand into the margins, and one or two contain small scenes. An illuminated title-page of much later date inserted. ; 113 BOTANISTS AND NATURALISTS, ALBuM containing over ONE HUNDRED AUTOGRAPH LETTERS of, mostly on Botanical Matters, neatly hinged in roy. 4to. morocco vol, 1706-1857 ibe 2 Including Arnott, Banks, Buckland, Bree, Bentham, Burchell (of S. Africa), Bauer, Curtis, Cunningham, De Candolle, De Caisne, Delesert, Engelmann, Emerson, Forbes, Gray, Horsfield, Harvey, Hooker, Humboldt, Herbert, Jacquin, Lichtenstein, Loudon, Latham, Lindley, Martius, Nuttall, Owen, Preiss, Roscoe de la Sagra, Swainson, Sowerby, Sabine, Sloane, Turner, Wallich, Woodville, Wilson, &c. FORMED BY Miss WILLMOTT, Author of the ‘‘ Genus Rosa.”’ 114 BURKE (Edmund) AvTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, 4 pp., Becons- field, Jan. 16th, 1795, with 3 portraits of Burke, bound in straight- grained morocco, relates to his paymastership of the forces £3 10s ** But as I have repeatedly had the honour of telling you I have no publick money in my hands in consequence of my having held the office of Paymaster : I have no account, or copy of an account, or voucher or any material out of which an account can be made,”’ &c. 115 CATHERINE THE GREAT.—AvutToGrRAPH LETTER signed “* CATERINE,” 2 pages, 4to., 25. de Sep., 1762, in French, to Field- Marshal Munnich £12 It concerns the work of fortifying a Baltic Port, her voyage, arranging her government and the ceremony, which has not given her time to attend to this matter, &c. She does not wish to act against anyone’s desires, and hate all “‘ tracisserie.” Count Munnich had been exiled in Siberia since 1741, and was recalled by Peter III. in 1762.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30483098_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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