Baudot, Louis Bénigne (1765-1844)

Éloge de Pierre Belon du Mans: avec notes diverses sur l'historie de la médecine à Dijon (pp. 1-219). Vallot (J. N.) Notes sur le Jardin Botanique de Dijon (pp. 221-226). Éloge de Belon, d'un auteur inconnu; annoté par Baudot (pp. 227-411). Inserted also are: P. 227 Engraved portrait of Johannes Gerson [1363-1429], by B. Picart, 1712. P. 228 Engraved portrait of Hugo Grotius [1583-1645], by E. Desrochers [18th cent.]. P. 231 Lithograph copy of a medallion portrait, dated 1535, of Cardinal François de Tournon [1489-1562]. P. 243 Woodcut portrait of Belon after the Woeriot portrait, taken from the 1555 Paris edition of Belon's 'Observations de plusieurs singularités [etc.]', with the laudatory verses in Greek. P. 11-80 This section is written by a different hand: the anonymous 'Éloge' is on blue 4to. paper, and by an 18th cent. hand, with numerous interpolated holograph additions by Baudot. Among the notes by Baudot to the first 'Éloge', No. 7 (pp. 113-120) is a list of 'Médecins, chirurgiens, barbiers et apothicaires de Dijon' in the 15th century: and No. 18 (pp. 173-196) a biography of Jean Liebault [ -1596]. The general title and the Table of contents, both written in purple ink, are probably written by Henri Baudot de Charnay, whose monogram-bookplate is pasted inside the upper cover. Produced in Dijon.

c. 1835

1 volume 411 pp. folio & 4to. 281/2 x 20 cm., 221/2 x 161/2 cm. Original half-calf binding. The frontispiece is a pencil drawing by Claude Louis Henri Baudot son of Louis Bénigne [1799-1880] 'copié d'après la gravure de Pierre Woeriot faite en 1555', of Pierre Belon. On p. 229 there is an unfinished pencil drawing of the same, and on pp. 233, 235, 237 lithograph copies of the portrait in three states.

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).

This MS. is No. 53 of the Baudot MSS., and was sold in 1900 at the Vente Henri Baudot de Charnay No. 121.