Part f. 179r - Woodcut printer’s device of Daniel or Louis Elzevir

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Crewe MS/24B/f. 179r

Title

Woodcut printer’s device of Daniel or Louis Elzevir

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  • 17th c. (Creation)

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1 cutting

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Name of creator

Ford, James (1779–1851), antiquary and benefactor

Repository

Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Scope and content

(Minerva and an owl, standing either side of an olive tree. Minerva holds a shield bearing the head of Medusa and a banner inscribed ‘Ne extra oleas’. This device appears in Descartes’ Tractatus de homine (1677).)

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      Pasted to f. 179r of Crewe MS 24B.

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