Finella, Filippo

De metoposcopia. The MS. consists of 200 engraved heads, with the various different lines and markings added in ink. Below each is a short note in Latin. In some cases there are MS. additions in Italian by a somewhat later hand. The spine is lettered 'De metoscopia'.

Middle 17th century

1 volume 200 ll. 8vo. 16 x 101/2 cm. Original vellum binding.

Purchased 1930.

The work was first published at Antwerp in 1648.

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).