| Description Of Item | Notes on Aristides ‘that memorable mirror of justice’ and his death from being bitten by a weasel, how he ‘lamented that it was not a lion’, and the comment that ‘noble spirits Embrace nothing with more easie acceptance than an honourable fate’.
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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