Institutiones mechanicae: Anathomia et Physiologia.

Illustrated with a few rough pen-drawn figures. The title given above is taken from that inscribed on the spine. The MS. contains notes of lectures, probably at an Italian college or university, there is a reference to 'hec nostra Regia Academia', at the end of 'Dissertatio I: De Aere' in the second section of the 'Physiologia'. The date 1724 is found further on in the same section. The text of the anatomical section is very similar to that of MS. 3408 [Malitia]. Produced in Naples?

c. 1730

1 volume 1 l. + 121 pp. + 180 ll. 4to. 20 × 141/2 cm. Original vellum binding. Three leaves have been cut out at the end, as well as the title-pages of each of the three sections. Margins slightly cropped.

Purchased 1935.

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).