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Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0095-Item 0014
Abstract
This unattributed fifteenth-century manuscript copy of Johannes de Rupescissa's alchemical medical textDe consideratione quintae essentiae rerum omniumcomprises 52 leaves on parchment, likely the work of more than one scribe.
Dates:
1400-1499
Rachel Leah Lindeman album
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0008
Abstract
The Rachel Leah Lindeman album is a presentation album which was given to Lindeman on March 18, 1862, in honor of her birthday. The album, which contains thirty-four pages of photographs, poems, artwork (pencil sketches, ink drawings, cartoons, illuminations, watercolors, etc.), elaborate calligraphy, and pressed flowers dating from 1862 to 1877, is a fine example of a Victorian presentation album with colonial Indian influences.
Dates:
1862-1877