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.

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).

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'.