IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118860 accession number: PB 1859.1 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 11 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: xlviii, 260 p., xxxvii leaves of plates (some folded) : ill ; 27 cm. object type: Introduction by G. Libri, in English and French on facing pages. Prices paid added in manuscript. Includes bibliographical references and index. title: Catalogue of the extraordinary collection of splendid manuscripts, chiefly upon vellum, in various languages of Europe and the East, formed by M. Guglielmo Libri ... amongst these manuscripts will be found ... many of the Greek writers and nearly all the Latin classics ... mathematical, medical and other scientific works ... ancient Italian poets and prose writers ... an extensive collection of oriental works ... autograph mss. of Tasso, Galileo, Kepler, Leibnitz, &c : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson ... at their house, 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Monday, 28th of March, 1859, and seven following days... LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118860 TECHNIQUES ---------- printing CATEGORIES ------ category: book DATING ------ creation date: 1859 - 1859 creation date earliest: 1859 creation date latest: 1859 CREATORS -------- maker: Libri, Guglielmo maker: S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (Firm)