| Description Of Item | Notes on St George and the images ‘nature had pictured’ on his body, at birth: ‘upon [his] breast’ was depicted ‘the lively form of a Dragon, upon his right hand a blood red cross & on his left leg a golden garter.’
Copied from Richard Johnson, The famous history of the seven champions of Christendom, first part (1597?).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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