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Various pen trials, 17th century
Various contemporary pen trials on front pastedowns including the words: 'Mustapha', 'Mustard', 'Faustus' and 'WF' and Latin phrases: 'Sic transit gloria mundi' (Thus passes worldly glory) used in the ritual of papal coronation ceremonies and 'Multa cadunt inter calicem, supremaque labra' (There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip), Greek prover translated in Latin by Erasmus
Author: Franco Petri Burgersdijk
Title: Institutionum logicarum libri duo (Cambridge, 1637)
Shelfmark: F.16.40 (catalogue record)
