Commonplace-book of dr. Thomas Marshall | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Commonplace-book of dr. Thomas Marshall

Shelfmark

MS. Marshall 80

Summary

Commonplace-book of dr. Thomas Marshall, including:

Fol. 11. jottings upon art and old masters, headed 'Observationes d. Ant. Dykii' [Van Dyck], in Dutch, beg. 'Het grootste deel der Konst', followed by 'Observata quaedam in adversariis Guillelmi Pettie' (fol. 13), Italian notes by 'pater Fitton' (fol. 18), and 'Observations of Inigo Jones' upon great English painters (fol. 19v)

Fol. 22. lists of editions of the Bible in Dutch, French, and German

Fol. 25. 'Ex libro Apulei Platonici de medicaminibus herbarum, collato cum MS. exemplari vetustissimo in bibliotheca Isaaci Vossii, cui accedit versio Saxonica; utriusque communicacio debetur doctori Francisco Junio, Francisci filio', and (fol. 27v) a passage on the mandragora in Anglo-Saxon, with (fol. 28v) the Latin of Apuleius, not found in Humelberg's edition

Fol. 44v. a list of Dutch types

Fol. 45. armorial bearings of various families of Marshall

Fol. 57v. letters commendatory and other Latin forms in use at Oxford

Fol. 58v. 'Specimen operis polyglotti', being Ps. cxvii, v. 1, in 23 languages

Fol. 2 has '1643 Jan. 8', and fol. 23 '1648'.

(fols. 30-44, 48v-56v are blank).