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Add. MS b/165
Title
"Historia de Alexandro el Magno"
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- [17th cent?] (Creation)
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1 vol.
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Archival history
Written on front endpaper: " I. Lee, Doctors Commons", and "1828 Jany. 22 Southgates Sale No. 117, accompanied by a bookplate with the Lee family crest.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Source of acquisition unknown. Two other volumes from Lee's library were the bequest of William Aldis Wright, 1914.
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Possibly a translation from Quintus Curtius Rufus, by an unidentified author. Note on the front free endpaper states that it contains a part of the 6th book, with the 7th through 10th books complete.
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Related units of description
One of 19 bound MSS formerly owned by John Lee: Add.MS.a.630, Add.MS.b.158-166, Add.MS.c.173-181.
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- Lee, John (1783-1866), antiquary and astronomer (Subject)
- Rufus, Quintus Curtius (fl 20-120) historian (Subject)
- Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) (Subject)