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Saturday, 23 January 2016
Donato and Ercole de Silva
When cataloguing the pre-1500 manuscripts of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia recently, I needed to identify the owner of an Italian ink-stamp, in a copy of Macer, De virtutibus herbarum, in the form of a seal with the legend "COMES DONATUS SILUA":
and so I was pleased to discover that two of the standard reference books are available online:
Sunday, 20 October 2013
The Church Congress Exhibitions
I occasionally encounter a manuscript with a circular paper label printed in blue with the words "Church Congress Exhibition", or occasionally "Ecclesiastical Art Exhibition", and a number added by hand:
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