Alphabeta litterae, caracteres et habitus variorum populorum (etc.)

Headings in red. Besides the alphabets, there are numerous traced copies of illustrations-a few in colour-from travel books, etc. of the 16th to the early 19th centuries, depicting costumes, ceremonies, occupations, etc. The fourth volume, uniformly bound, is lettered on the spine: 'Salutatio angelica. Symbolum Apostolorum Nicenum S. Athanasii. Decalogus. Praecepta Ecclesiae. Te Deum laudamus. Signum S. Crucis. Orationis Dominicae. Fragmenta polyglotta'. Probably compiled in France: the latest entry is dated 1840.

c. 1845

4 volumes 4 vols. atlas folio. 43 x 27 cm. Written on tracing paper, mounted. Original half-calf binding.

Purchased 1899.

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).