Pratique curieuse, ou les oracles des sibiles sur chaque question proposée. Tirée des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de Mr. Comiers

The answers to the questions are in verse. On the last leaf 'Ce livre appertien à moy Clemence Rigaud demeurant dans la rue des trois maries à Lyon, donné le 18 autt 1725'. Above this is another owner's inscription, struck through, but dated 1724; the name is possibly 'Louise Durette' [?], she also lived at Lyons. Claude Comiers died in 1693: he was a French mathematician and author. Produced in Lyons.

c. 1720

1 volume 19 ll. + 169 pp. + 2 ll. (first bl.). 8vo. 171/2 × 13 cm. Original limp vellum binding.

Purchased 1930.

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).

From the Berhard VI collection.