(Froger, Maurice)

Traité de la Physionomie, de la Chyromancie, de la Métoposcopie, et de l'Onirodytique.

c. 1725

1 volume 1 l. + 165 ff. + 1 bl. l. 4to. 211/2 × 151/2 cm. 19th cent. quarter-calf binding. The lower part of the title-page has been torn away. Ff. 10 and 11 have been wrongly bound after fol. 1.

Purchased 1933.

This MS. has been tentatively ascribed to Maurice Froger, a Physician of Montepllier [fl. c. 1620], and bears a very strong resemblance to two works by this author described by Thorndike in his 'History of Magic and Experimental Science', Vol. VI, p. 510. These are BN 7484 and Ste. Généviève 2234. Though both are in Latin, the tables, order of subjects, and proportional amount of space given to each, are found to agree almost exactly, so that it seems not impossible that this MS. is a translation of one or other of these MSS., most probably of the second.

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).