Ancient lyre and a tortoise
Date
1701
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p82
Material
Dimensions
height (paper): 300mm
width (paper): 192mm
width (paper): 192mm
Subject
Content object
Description
An ancient lyre copied from Marin Mersenne's Harmonie Universelle (1636), and a tortoise copied from Jan Jonston's Historiae Naturalis de Quadrupedibus Libri [1652?], in order to explain an obscure passage in Horace's Odes.
Transcription
at the top: '(16)'. Above the drawing of the Lyra: Fig. 1a Lyra sive Testudo Antiqua; above the drawing of the tortoise: Fig. 2a Testudo Aquatica Johnstoni
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
T. Molyneux, 'Some Thoughts concerning the Ancient Greek and Roman Lyre, and an Explanation of an Obscure Passage in One of Horace's Odes', Phil. Trans., no. 282 (1702), p. 1275 explains that the first figure was copied from Marin Mersenne's De instrumentis [i.e. Harmonie Universelle], book 1, p. 7 (which in turn was copied from a gem) and the second figure from Jan Jonston, De animalibus, tab. 18, de quadripedibus [i.e. Historia Naturalis de Quadrupedibus Libri].
Related fellows
Thomas Molyneux (1661 - 1733, Irish) , Physician