Manuscript volume, late 15th century, containing a mathematical treatise, with ink diagrams.
Sin títuloManuscript history of ancient armour with illustrations.
Sin títuloGrant by Leopold I to Friderich Caspar and Johann C Herman of Neuhoff, 17th century.
Sin títuloManuscript poem, 17th century, 'Himmelfahrt Der Ordensleute' (ascension of orders), in rhyming couplets. Folio 1r bears an inscription dated 1660, describing the text as a humorous poem on the meeting of the Roman Catholics, Jesuits, monks, etc, with the apostle Peter at the celestial gates, probably unpublished. On the last leaf (f 5v) a copper engraving is pasted, depicting the Rhine and Main from Cologne to Würzburg, and on the water boats full of Jesuits, apparently fleeing. A single Jesuit toils along the river bank with his sack full of treasures belonging to the Roman Catholic Church, which are being lost en route.
Sin títuloGebetbuch (Book of Prayers), 15th century-16th century. There are sketches at the base of some of the folios representing views of a landscape, probably in Germany, and two sketches of the Madonna, one of them dated 1676.
Sin títuloMasterpieces of Hogarth Scrapbook, c 1800-1950, contains cuttings of a majority of Hogarth's paintings and drawings.
Sin títuloManuscript volume [1620s]: Christoph Kotter's 'Mystisches Manuskript', comprising declarations of mystical experiences made before the civic and ecclesiastical authorities of the town of Sprottau. With 20 pen drawings of visions in the text.
Sin títuloManuscript volume, probably 15th or 16th century, 'Chyromantia et Natura Planetarum', a treatise on palmistry (chiromancy), including 21 colour diagrams of hands and symbols. Bound with a number of later printed works, including Thomas Hill's The Schoole of Skil (T Iudson for W Iaggard, London, 1599).
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