The monastery of Holy Savior has been the subject much scholarship, but liturgical reform requested by King Roger II Sicily and carried out first archimandrite, Luke Rossano, latter’s struggle to establish seemly equipment, largely neglected. Given its potential relevance for material setting monastery’s early manuscript collection through middle twelfth century, this seems an oversight. Art hi...

Abstract Between 1675 and 1676, while in Paris, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) got privileged access to some geometric manuscripts from late Blaise Pascal’s hand. Although said are not extant, Leibniz’s reading notes were preserved, together with his personal papers Hannover, under the heading “ Pascaliana .” The mathematical content of these influence they had on later work quite known ...

part of the treatise, which as a whole comprises nine parts devoted entirely to therapeutics. This is followed by a review of the historical sources and useful short biographical sections relating to Ibn Ezra and al-Haitham. The content of each part of the treatise, excluding the first which has already been dealt with, is described with reference to other medical writers. The psychological and...

Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, by LOREN MACKINNEY, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965, pp. xvii, 263, 104 plates, 105s. It is a pity that Loren MacKinney did not live to see the publication of this beautifully produced book, which represents to some extent the culminating point of his thirty years' search for medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts. He had i...