Testa, Giuseppe Antonio (1756-1814)

Lezioni di Clinica Medica, per l'anno scolastico 1807-1808, 1808-1809. On the fly-leaf of the first volume is the following inscription: 'Queste lezioni di Clinica Medica/che il Professore Testa/diceva/Le raccolse e scrisse di mano propria/un mio compagno di studio/il quale/dappoi per bisogno vendeva/chi li compri/fu il Dottor Vincenzo Minelli/chi vendette/Alessandrini/[Signature of Minelli]/Sant' Agata Bolognese, 16 Gennaio 1876/Visto autografa la soprascritta/firma del Sig. Dr. Vincenzo Minelli/Il Sindaco/[Signature of Antonio Cave, Lodi, Asst. delegato. Official Stamp of the Munioipio di Sant' Agata. Bologna]. Produced in Bologna.

1807-9

2 volumes 2 vols. folio. 291/2 × 201/2 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.

Purchased 1929.

At the end of Vol. V are three entries by the hand of the scribe of the MS. of the births of three children in 1817, 1818 and 1820. Antonio Alessandrini [1776-1861] was professor of comparative anatomy and veterinary pathology at Bologna University in 1819. G. A. Testa was professor of clinical medicine at Bologna University.

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).