Will of Galileo

Official contemporary copy of his last Will, in Italian: authenticated by Alessandro Pencio, a Notary attached to the Chancery, and transcribed by Francesco Giuntini of the Record Office. With a modern transcript. The date of the original will was 21 August 1638. This official copy was made on 26 May 1642 for Gratia Dio de Squadrinis, a Florentine notary who drew up the original Will. Produced in Florence.

1642-c.1930

1 volume 11 ll. (last bl.), 17 ff. folio. 28 x 191/2 cm., 33 x 201/2 cm. Unbound.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1935.

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).