| Description Of Item | Notes on Apelles and what Pliny (in book 25, chapter 10: ‘book the xxxv Cap 10’) says about his habits once he finished ‘any works’, as ‘he exposed them in a place where all that passed by might see them: hiding himself in the mean time behinde the Picture, to hearken what faults were noted in his works’.
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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