Dufeux, Jean Baptiste

Prophétie perpétuel [sic] depuis mil cinq cent vingt un jusqu'a la fin du monde. Author's holograph MS. Illustrated with two pen-drawn 'Circles solaires', and 'La roue pythagorique': with 28 tables of 'Nombres solaires'.... Text within pen-drawn rules. A foliation in pencil has been added. On fol. 49 'Fins des presente prophetie. Ce 14 aoulst 1771. a 7 heur du soire, au Culot dudit Floing'. A solar circle on fol. 51 is dated 'à lude ce 29 juilliet 1775'. A similar statement 'fait par moy Jeanbaptiste Dufeux maître en Chirurgie à lude ce 31 juilliet' is found on fol. 53. On the verso of fol. 55 'Jean Louis Dufeux à Rilly ce 20 avril 1790'. Produced in Floing & Lude.

1771; 1775

1 volume 58 ll. 8vo. 17 x 10 cm. Modern vellum binding. Margins slightly frayed and cropped.

Purchased 1935.

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).