| Description Of Item | Notes on Alexander’s admiration for the painter Apelles of Kos and his skills. Alexander proposed his concubine or mistress Campaspe as a sitter for a painting. The painting produced ‘such an impression’ on the artist that he fell in love with her, so Alexander ‘gave him her’.
Copied from Richard Brathwaite, History surveyed in a brief epitomy, or, A nursery for gentry comprised in an intermixt discourse upon historicall and poeticall relations: wherein is much variety of discourse and modest delight (1651).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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