| Description Of Item | Notes on how Darius altered the form of his blade, from ‘persian’ to ‘macedonian’, the year ‘before he fought with Alexander’ and ‘the chaldees or soothsayers prophecied: that into what fashion Darius altered his sword, that people would come to be rulers of Persia: which hapt accordingly’.
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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