Title from cover.

Aristotle and Avicenna: The beginning of biology - Barlaam and Josaphat: the story of Buddha -- Greek New Testament, ancient and modern -- the eruption of Mount Etna in 1669 -- the introduction of the Gregorian calendar -- Grotius' escape from prison in a bookchest -- the first book printed at Toledo -- the first illustration of a bookcase -- Pope Leo X writes to Charles V -- Serbian liturgy from a Cyrillic press in Venice -- Einstein on Lucretius -- the complete Luther -- memorial tributes to Gutenberg -- medieval romance: St Patrick's Purgatory -- the first printed work on wrestling -- Ockham's political thought -- satire: the 'Craftie Cromwell' plays -- Guicciardini on the battlefield at Parma -- Neoplatonism: first edition of Plotinus -- Scaliger on Theophrastus bound for Prince Henry.