Breve Sumario diviso

Breve sumario diviso in 7 libri circa le cose naturali, et sue operationi medinate l'arte, et senza. Tabula smaragdina Hermetis. By another hand. On the first leaf signature of Edward Jenner, written faintly in ink. This is an alchemical MS., and Jenner's interest in this subject does not seem to have been recorded by any of his biographers. On the last leaf `il' Sr. Capitanio Giovan Batista gaiani nella Cademia sulla via Nova. Verona'.

Middle 17th century

1 volume 48 ff. + 11 bl. ll. + 2 ll. 4to. 20 x 14 cm. Modern boards.

Purchased 1930.

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).