Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus (1611-1671)

Dissertatio de Musaeo Alexandrino Excerpta e praelectionibus in Herodianum. Author's holograph MS., with holograph marginal notes by Johannes Georgius Graevius [1632-1703]. On the first fly-leaf-by an unknown hand-'Gough Sale 1810'.

c. 1675-1685

1 volume 2 ll. (2nd bl.). + pp. 253-343. 4to. 201/2 × 151/2 cm. 18th cent. calf binding. As the pagination shows, this MS. has been extracted from a larger volume.

Purchased 1906.

Inside the upper cover is inscribed 'R. G. e libr. Askev. Mar. 10. [17]85' showing that it was purchased by Richard Gough [1735-1809] the antiquary, and had been formerly in the library of Anthony Askew M.D. [1722-1774]. Inside the cover again 'Libri 445'-the Sotheby sale of March 31st, 1859 of the MSS. of the notorious Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone de Libri-Carrucci [1803-1869], the mathematician and bibliophile. It was bought at this sale by Sir Thomas Phillipps, and bears his number 'Phillipps 16335'.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).