La Science et l'art de ceste philosophie qui se gouverne par le nombre solaire

This treatise, which may possibly be a part of a larger work, deals with the 28 solar numbers and their influence on weather and crops. On the leaf following the end of the text (27) is a note 'Mémoire que Robert le Besque cordier me doict cent Soubz de Rente pour chacun an du iiiiieme jour de mars 1573'.

c. 1570

1 volume 31 ll. (first & last 4 bl.). 8vo. 15 x 101/2 cm. Modern vellum binding.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1936.

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).