Excerpta ex ... 'Commentatione palaeographica' cum tabulis lithographicis xx a Johanne Hodgkin transcriptis / [Friedrich Jakob Bast].

  • Bast, Friedrich Jakob, 1771-1811
Date:
1835
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Credit: Excerpta ex ... 'Commentatione palaeographica' cum tabulis lithographicis xx a Johanne Hodgkin transcriptis / [Friedrich Jakob Bast]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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