Gautier d'Agoty, Jacques ( -1785)

Myologia completa del Signore Douverney [sic] tradotta dal francese da Girolamo Ristorini studente chirurgia nel Regio Spedale di Santa Maria Nuova. Illustrated with 9 full-page, and 11 double-page anatomical plates in water-colour, copied by Ferdinando Rossi. There is no text except for the title, dedication leaf by the translator, and description of the plates (13 ll.) which is left unfinished after the thirteenth plate. Produced in Florence.

1760

1 volume 46 ll. (first bl.). atlas folio. 48 × 371/2 cm. Modern boards. Title in red and black.

Purchased 1932.

This MS. is a copy of the 'Myologie complète', published in Paris in 1746. It was based on the anatomical work of Joseph Guichard Duverney [1648-1730] who had prepared the dissections.

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).