Miscellanea V

Collection of tracts in Latin and Italian by various hands. This section is written in a neat humanistic hand, 30 lines to a page: headings in red.

1459-c.1650

1 volume 1 l. + 264 ff. 4to. 21 1/2 x 15 cm. 18th century vellum binding, with flower-pattern end-papers. some margins frayed. The beginning and end of the Collection of veterinary receipts (No. 13) are wanting, and the leaves are bound in wrong order. The first 5 items, which apparently from one original tract, are on paper of smaller format (21 1/2 x 14 1/2 cm.).

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).