A catalogue of Greek manuscripts from the Meerman collection in the Bodleian Library by Palau, AC

“…It was bought for the Bodleian from the collection of the Dutch bibliophile Gerard Meerman in 1824. Professor Palau traces them further back to several previous owners, including Guillaume Pellicier, French ambassador to Venice in the first half of the sixteenth century. …”

Francis Thynne's Perfect Ambassadour and the construction of diplomatic thought in Elizabethan England by Sowerby, TA

“…Francis Thynne's Perfect Ambassadour, written in 1578, is the earliest surviving English treatise on the role of the ambassador. …”

English ‘Treatises on Physiognomy’ c. 1500 - c. 1780 by Porter, M

“…Whilst physiognomy was central to John Dee's conception of science, Francis Bacon felt it needed cleansing of superstition. …”