Orobio de Castro, Baltasar or Isaac (1620?-1687)

Parte 2a. Prevenciones divinas a Isrrael en los escritos profeticos.

Late 17th century

1 volume 1 l. + 194 ff. + 4 ll. (last 2 bl.). folio. 301/2 × 19 cm. Original gilt-stamped calf binding. Title within decorated pen-drawn borders.

Purchased 1927.

The author describes himself as 'Doctor de Medicina, Cathedratico de la Universidad de Tolosa y Conselero ad honorem de su Magestad Christianisima Señor Luis XIIII'. In the title of this MS, he styles himself 'Ishac Orovio de Castro'. There is an account of the author in the Jewish Encyclopaedia, Vol. III, p. 609, where he is entered as 'Balthazar (Isaac) Orobio de Castro'. This was his Jewish name after he had left Toulouse about 1666. He had by then renounced Christianity, and spent the remainder of his life in Amsterdam. He had previously practised medicine at Seville, and after three years imprisonment by the Inquisition went to Toulouse, where he became professor of medicine at the university with the honorary title of Councillor from Louis XIV.

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).