| Description Of Item | Notes on how Alexander ‘laid the works of Homer under his head’ to ‘direct him to be a Head & how to govern Provinces’.
Another note on Alexander at the tomb of Achilles, how he wept, and spoke ‘Haeccine sunt trophaea’, ‘be these all the monuments, all the trophies this world could afford the[e], is greatness so soon Extinguished, & the lamp of honour so soon put out’.
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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