Volume 3

Catalogue of Western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / by S.A.J. Moorat.

  • Wellcome Historical Medical Library
Date:
1962-1973
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Credit: Catalogue of Western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / by S.A.J. Moorat. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NEBOUT Original vellum binding. Possibly the author’s holograph MS., or a scribal copy prepared for the press. It is dedicated to ‘ Ranutio Secondo, Duca di Parma : the author describes himself as ‘Palermitano, Cuoco Maggiore della medesima Altezza Serenissima’. No record of him has been traced. Pasted on outside the upper cover is a small printed label inscribed: ‘Raccolta Biaggi. 1987’. [Leopoldo Biaggi [1798-1854] a physician of Padua?]. Purchased 1931. (75864) NASS (Lucien). A.l.s. dated [c. 1910P1914, see Witkowski (G. J. A.). L’art profane, Vol. II. (5045) - L’art chrétien. (5046) - Com ment moururent les rois. (5052) 3662. NATIONAL Vaccine Establishment. Abstract of the Debate in the House of Commons, 9th June, 1808 on the setting up of a National Vaccine Establishment. i bl. 1 . + 2X if. folio. 32 x20 cm. London, 1808. Original paper covers. Written on the rectos only. The resolution to set up the Establishment was carried by 68 votes to 5. Purchased at Sotheby’s 27/11/1918, Lot ioo3 A (part). (43215) 3663. — Draft Vaccine Report, 1819. 7 pp. folio. 32 x20 cm. [London.] 1819. Unbound. The last leaf is written by a different hand, probably that of Charles Murray, Secretary to the N.V.E. Purchased at Sotheby’s 27/11/1918, Lot ioi2 A (part). (43215) NAUDOZ (Paul). For signatures, 1735-6, see Andouille (J. B. A.). Principes de chirurgie. (947) 3664. NAXAGORAS (Ehrd von). La Toison d’Or. Contenant la vraye Concordance des Philosophes, avec les Opérations de l’Art Philosophical. 1739 - 7 11. + 188 pp. + 3 bl. 11. 8vo. 17^x11 cm. 1739. Original calf binding. ‘De Naxagoras’ has been erased from the title. The first of the last three unnumbered leaves at the beginning contains a pen- drawn symbolic figure, the second is an engraved symbolic plate from a copy of the printed ‘Annulus Platonis’ (1723), and the third a pen-drawn copy of the symbolic ‘Abyssum duplicatum’. An engraved plate of this is inserted loose. Pp. 149-152, 165-188 are by a different and later hand. This MS. appears to be a French version, considerably abridged, of the ‘Ex perientia Naxagorae secundum Annulos Platonicos et Catenam auream Homeri’, first published at Frankfort in 1723. For Naxagoras and his works, and their relation to those of Anton Joseph Kirchweger, cf. Ferguson. ‘Bibliotheca Chemica,’ Vol. I, pp. 469-471, Vol. II, pp. 127-131; Kopp. ‘Die Alchemie’. Vol. II, pp. 208-220. Purchased 1933. (66396) — Experientia, see gohl (J. D.). Collegium casuale [etc.]. (2541) NEBOUT (S.). For signature [c. 1815], see Verrier. Traité des maladies internes des animaux. (4928)