Volume 6

Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa / By Edward Daniel Clarke.

  • Clarke, Edward Daniel, 1769-1822.
Date:
1810-1823
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Credit: Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa / By Edward Daniel Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    copious marginal annotations, beautifully written, and in chap. xi. high preservation. 7. Peter Olans, his Chronicle of the Kings of Sweden, a folio MS., fairly written, upon paper, in the Swedish language. There are, in all, eighty-six volumes of Manuscripts : but the list includes Missals, Bibles, Korans, and a few other Oriental Manuscripts, together with many curious Codices which relate to Swedish and Russian history. There is also a Map of Japan, given to the Library by Count Alric Scheffer, which Porthan calls “ rarum Bibliothecae nostrce cimelium3.” The authors of the Voyage de Deux Frangais, by whom none of these Codices were noticed, mention only one manuscript, in their short account of this Library : and although we give them full credit for their statement, it so happened that we did not see the work to which they allude4. Among the Typographical Rarities, we saw only the fol- Typographi¬ cal Rarities. lowing as worthy of the smallest notice : 1. Terentius. Argent. 1496. folio, cum fig. 2. Cicero, Quasst. Tuscul. cum comment. Phil. Beroaldi. Yenet. fol. 1499. 3. Horatii Flacci Opera, cum annotat. imaginibusque. Argent, fol. 1498. 4. Persius. (3) Hist. Billioth. p. 214. (4) “ On nous y a montre un Manuscrit in folio, de 1341 pages ; intitule : Proces-verlal d'une commission nommee in 1676, et sentences qui ont ete prononcees sur des malefices et des magiciennes, ecrit en Suedois, de la main d'Andre Engman, notaire de la dite commis¬ sion : il manque quelques feuilles au commencement.”—Voyage de Deux Frangais, dans le Nord de l'Europe. Tome II. p. 510. a Paris, 1796.