| Description | Commonplace book in an unknown hand. Contains notes from the works of Tacitus and Seneca, notes on Aristotle's Nichomachean ethics (1607), notes from Marsilio Ficino's "De religione Christiana" (1576); notes from two emblem books: Cesare Ripa, Iconologia, Rome, 1593, and Geffrey Whitney, A choice of emblemes and other devises, Leyden, 1586; Extracts from "Notes out of a Discourse of the 14 first yeares of K. James"' and "Out of the first 14 years of K. James" (Michael Sparke), The narrative history of King James: for the first fourteen years, 1651.
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Also short notes on the following: "Thinges of Counsell & conduct more than ordinary in History"; Cardan, "In septem aphorismorum Hippocratis particulas Commentarla" Basle, 1564; Tacitus quotations from Lipsius; Agathias, "De imperio et rebus gestis Iustiniani Imper atoris", Leyden, 1594; Stratagems from Machiavelli and Guicciardini; Saa vedra Fajardo, "Idea Principis Christiano politici", Brussels, 1649; several sets of sententiae, adagia and Italian proverbs.
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A list of authors at the front of the volume reads: "see Clapm. Tholoz. Contzen. Bodin Symancha Franciscola Patritius. Machiav. Amirato Malvez Petrarch Bentivoglio. Strada. Davila Mariana. Saavedra. Lopez. Botero - Forstner. Piccarto. Loccenius. Lypsius. Giffanius Chochier (?) Cardan Campanella - francisco bottini - Augustino Mascardi. Boeclerus Annibal Scotus. Clavemontius. Nathan Chytraeus". |