Mandeville, Michael de (fl. 1660)

Notes of lectures at the Universities of Franeker and Nijmegen on the Institutes of Medicine, and on Cartesian Philosophy: in Latin. Holograph MS. by de Mandeville, written while a medical student. Contents: [Anon.]. Philosophiae moralis epitome (9 ll.). Matthaeus (Philippus) [1621-1700] In alma Frisiorum (quae est Franequera) Universitate observations in ... D. Alberti Kyperi Institutiones medicas (88 pp.). Radiis (Johannes de) Dictata ad Epitomen Institutionum medicarum Danielis Sennerti. 1656 (129 pp. + 29 ll.). Pp. 113-125 contain 'D. Johannis Antonidae van der Linden [1609-1664] Doctrina de febribus'. Wittich (Christophorous [1623-1687] In alma Gelriorum (quae est Noviomagi) Universitate, Observationes in Renati Descartes Meditationes de prima philosophia (35 ll.). Observations in ejusdem Principiorum philosophiae partem primam [only] (4 ll.). Inside the cover is the date 1656, and three signatures of de Mandeville, with one in Greek, and another dated 1664. Below, signature of John Lee [1783-1866], antiquarian and scientist 'J. Lee Doctors Commons No. 390. Recovered Mr Wilson, London'. Produced in Franeker & Nijmegen.

1656-1664

1 volume 9 ll. (last bl.). + 88 pp. + 1 bl. l. + 129 pp. + 29 ll. (last bl.) + 39 ll. folio. 30 1/2 × 20 cm. Early 19th cent. vellum binding. Margins slightly cropped in binding. The fly-leaves are watermarked 1824.

Purchased 1899.

Michael de Mandeville was a physician of Rotterdam and father of Bernard de Mandeville, author of the Fable of the Bees.

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).