Magini, Giovanni Antonio (1555-1617)

Della metos[co]popia d'Antonio Magini. Dichiaratione delle linee della fronte ... e loro significato. Trascritta da Salvatore Salvadori in Perugia. Praedictiones ex nevis et punctis. Che cosa sia Metoposcopia, e qual scienza sia? Soggetta che de' Antichi e che de' Moderni n'habbia trattato. Illustrated with pen-drawings of heads, and 3 circular diagrams, the second of which is a 'Wheel of Pythagoras'. Produced in Perugia.

1631

1 volume 30 ll. (last 3 bl.). + 10 ll. + 8 ll. (last 2 bl.). + 20 ll. (last bl.). 8vo. 20 x 131/2 cm. Original boards.

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 1932.

At the end of the 'De nevis' the writer states 'Haec omnia Salvator Salvadorius dum Perugiae studebat exscripsit Anno Domini 1631', and on the recto of the first leaf 'Perusiae. Anno 1631 februarii'.

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).