![]() A type case housing a printer’s metal type. A piece of specialist furniture for categorizing and displaying a collection, illustrated in Levinus Vincent, The Wonders of Nature (1706).ġ1. A writing desk belonging to either Henry VIII or Catherine of Aragon, c. Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp-UNESCO, World Heritage.Ĩ. Abraham Ortelius, Thesaurus geographicus, Geographical Treasure-house. Sion/Sitten, Archives du Chapitre/Kapitelsarchiv, Ms. A manuscript copy of the Decretum Gratiani dating from the first half of the thirteenth century. The Bakhshali manuscript, third to seventh centuries. ![]() A table showing some of Ralph de Diceto’s marginal symbols in his Abbreviationes chronicorum, Chronicles Précised. Old Babylonian clay tablet, c.1900–1700 BCE. The first page of a letter in rebus form from Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). A round robin letter of 1621, petitioning for the right of Huguenots to settle in the New World. ![]()
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