Fonseca Claro da Silva e Souza, Manoel Bernardo da

Promptuario neomeniaristico, ou Arte do Callendarista, em que apparecem os Computos calculados ate o anno da Era Vulgar 2100. Author's holograph MS. Illustrated with pen-drawn astronomical figures and diagrams, including some cut out of a printed book, and pasted in. At the end of the main text, and on a leaf at the end of the volume, are entries dated 1872. These seem to be written by an old man. The object of the calculations, etc. appears to be mainly astrological. Produced in Lisbon.

1864-1872

1 volume 3 ll. (last 2 bl.). + 362 pp. + 11 ll. + 30 bl. ll. + 1 l. + 2 bl. ll. folio. 30 × 201/2 cm. Original quarter-calf binding, worn.

Purchased 1913.

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).