Catalogue of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. Part the first [-third] ... Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans ... on ... May 11, etc / [Sir Mark Masterman Sykes].

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[1824]
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Credit: Catalogue of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. Part the first [-third] ... Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans ... on ... May 11, etc / [Sir Mark Masterman Sykes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [9] ee ¥ eT oe WHICH HAS EVER ISSUED FROM THE PRrREss PRINTED UPON VELLUM. ‘‘ Thomas Aquinas was a truly great genius,” says Warburton, “ who in those blind ages was the same in Theology, that our Friar Bacon was in Natural Philosophy. He pierced through the thickest night of Monkery, when the Waldenses were suppressed, and Wick- liffe not yet risen.” His works. should always form an Appendage to a Classical Library, on ac- count of his profound, lucid, and extensive Com- mentaries on the Physics, Metaphysics, and Ethicks of Aristotle, which form the first five volumes. A Critic of exquisite taste (Dr. Warton), has pronounced his view of Aristotle’s Ethics tobe “ ad- The collectors of Books printed upon Vellum have may never occur again, as I believe the only other copy which exists is that in the King of France’s Library. For I strongly suspect that this is the iden- tical copy presented by Pope Pius V. to the King of Spain, and deposited in the Library of the Escu- rial, from whence it appears to have been obtained during the Revolution, as the old morocco covers (which probably contained the Arms of Spain,) appear to be cut off to conceal the fact. It is certain that the Plantin Polyglot Bible on Vellum, was so obtained from the Escurial. EACH VoLumg, as in the King of France’s copy. randa Simonem Gryneum qui in dialecticis emen- datissimum Codicem adhibuit, in quo vix ulla fuit pagina, que non aliquod opere pretium attulerit.” See Buhle’s Aristotle. LARGE PAPER, in russia, gilt leaves. Paris, 1619 apud Aldum. 1516 C a. . ° oo; Phe SRN mm CPt a7 ns Fe 0 teenvoytor ea ; eae LEP Fo ie