| Description Of Item | Notes on Asterius, bishop of ‘Amasa’, and the statue of Jesus Christ, ‘our saviours brazen statue’ which as ‘erected by the women he had healed of a bloody issue: see photius’. Other authors of ‘Church histories’ also mentioned this statue.
Copied from Franciscus Junius, The painting of the ancients in three bookes: declaring by historicall observations and examples, the beginning, progresse, and consummation of that most noble art (1638).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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