Volume 2

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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    ABRAHAM BEN SIMEON 818. — Lectures on anatomy, physiology, and surgical anatomy and pathology : notes written by an un-named student, and incomplete. Followed by ‘Cases of hospital patients’, by a different hand. 83 11. +12 11. + 62 bl. 11. 4to. 23^ x 18-J cm. [London.] 1814, 1815-1820. Original quarter calf binding. Some leaves have been cut out from the middle, and from beginning and end of the volume. The lecture notes are written on the rectos only. On the blank pages are some lists of plants, accounts, etc. by the later hand. Lettered on the spine ‘Anatomical Lectures. Vol. I.’ From the T. D. Acland Collection. Presented 1931. (89161) 819. — Surgical lectures. Vol. II. Notes taken by an un-named student. ff. 459-1029. 8vo. 19^x12^ cm. [London, c. 1820.] Original calf binding, repaired. Written on rectos only. The paper is water-marked 1821 ( e.g . fol. 507). Purchased 1956. (303159) — For signature, 10/3/1803, see Royal Jennerian Society. Minutes. (4304) ABRAHAM ben Levi of Aleppo. See Saulnier [or Saunier] (J.) [& others]. Transcript (5). (2285) 820. ABRAHAM ben Simeon [1410-1440]. Magie des Egyptschen Abraham Elim: Das ist wahrer weeg zur weissheit, und allen geheimen Wissenschaften, welche derselbe dem wüssbegirrigen Abraham von Worms gelehrt, dieser aber seinem Jüngern Sohn Lamech gewiedmet in seinem Testament hinterlassen hat. MCCCLXXXXVIII. Nach gewöhnlicher Jahrzahl. . . von Dr. Hans Schabo, Professor der Hebraeisch und Chaldeisch Sprache zu Leyden. . . übersetzt, Anno Christi 1619. Aus der dressdner bibliothek 1726. 2 11. (first bl.) + 209 pp. +1 1. +173 bl. 11. 8vo. 22 x 14^ cm. [Dresden.] 1726. Original calf-gilt binding. This MS. is a German version, containing three Books only, of a work entitled ‘Segullat Melakim’ (Royal Devices), originally in four books of which the last three exist in summaries only. [Cf. Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, s.v. Abraham ben Simeon of Worms]. It deals with practical cabala, magic, and natural science, and the author is said to have been a pupil of R. Abraham Elim [fl. c. 1425]. The date (1398) given in the Title seems to be an error of transcription. Accord ing to Waite in his ‘Book of ceremonial magic’, [1911], this work is spurious, and first found in an early 18th cent. MS. at the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal in Paris, but this seems to be incorrect. It was edited and translated by S. Macgregor Mathers in 1898, who believed in its authenticity as an ancient work with a Hebrew original. He is severely criticized by Waite [op. cit.] for holding this opinion. Purchased 1935. (68675) 821. — Liber magicus theosophicus cum Kabbala mixta de anno 1438. Das Buch des wahren altere und göttlichen Magiae geschrieben von Abraham dem Sohn Simons [sz'c] an seinen jungem Sohn Lamech. 2 11. (last bl.) +124 pp. + 7 bl. 11. 8vo. 17 x 10J cm. [c. 1775.]
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