Physica

Phisices pars tertia. De corpore animato. Illustrated by four inserted engraved folding plates from the Rome edition of the 'Discorso anatomico' published in 1742 by Gaetano Petrioli, and based on the plates of Bartolomeo Eustachi [ -1574]. These are found at the end of the text. As a frontispiece, there is another folding engraved plate, illustrating 'Experimenta circa vacuum', the provenance of which has not been traced. Preceding the Petrioli plates is a folding leaf containing pen-drawings to illustrate vision and the human eye. This MS. contains notes by an unnamed student, probably at an Italian university or college: it is divided into three sections, 'De corpore humano', 'De anima belluina', 'De plantis'. It can be dated approximately by the reference to the 'Dissertatio de lumine' on p. 204. This was published at Rome in 1749 by Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovitch [1711-1787].

mid-18th century

1 volume 257 pp. + 4 ll. (last bl.). 8vo. 20 × 131/2 cm. Original vellum binding. Damp-stained throughout.

Purchased 1936.

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).