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Francisci Redi Experimenta circa generationem insectorum
Redi, Francesco (1626-1698)
1671
Added t.p. engraved by Romeyn de Hooghe. Added t.p. has title: Fr. Redi De insectis. Last page erroneously numbered 230. Illustrations by or after Romeyn de Hooghe.
Francisci Redi Opusculorum (v.2)
Redi, Francesco (1626-1698); Redi, Francesco (1626-1698); Lachmund, Friedrich (1635-1676); Redi, Francesco (1626-1698); Hooghe, Romeyn de (1645-1708)
1685-1686
Includes illustrations by or after Romeyn de Hooghe. Vol. 1 has title: Francisci Redi, patricii Aretini, Opusculorum pars prior, sive Experimenta circa generationem insectorum ad illustrem virum Car...
Birds, flowers, a classical soldier (fol. 26r)
[ca.1480-1500]
The border is decorated with strawberries, speedwells, heartsease, thistles, columbines, borage, flies, a bird with a long neck, and a dark apparently naked male figure (a wild man?) holding a red shi...
The resurrection of souls (fol. 170r)
[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]
St. Michael the Archangel receives souls after the general resurrection to take into Heaven, where God, clad in a red papal triple tiara and cloak, holds a globe with a cross, and is surrounded by fac...
Coronation of the Virgin and All Saints (fol. 120v)
[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]
The miniature shows God, enthroned, placing a crown over the Virgin Mary's head. A group of saints surround them, including in the foreground, St. Barbara with a tower and a palm branch, St. Peter wit...
Annunciation to the Virgin (fol. 86v)
[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]
The miniature depicts the angel Gabriel announcing the birth of Christ to the Virgin Mary. Gabriel holds a sceptre and wears a coronet with a cross. Mary kneels by a small altar, under a green canopy....
Sacrifice at an altar (fol. 38r)
[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]
The miniature depicts a tonsured male figure, clad in a white gown and a red cloak, apparently sacrificing two animals by burning them on an altar. His head-dress with a fur lining and a golden top li...
A natural history of spiders, and other curious insects
Albin, Eleazar (fl. 1713-1759); Mead, Richard (1673-1754); Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
1736
Frontispiece and 53 plates are hand-coloured; in the numbering of plates, XXXV is repeated, and LII is omitted, as in the copy described in NUC. Albin's "Natural history of spiders" forms pp. 1-56, ...
The Crucifixion of Christ (fol. 60v)
[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]
The miniature depicts Christ crucified on the cross. Mary Magdalene, richly clad in a green dress, an orange cloak and a head-dress covered in jewels, clutches the cross with her arms. Her ointment ja...