Croce, Vincenzo Alsario Della, (b. 1576), papal physician

Consilium for Cardinal Lorenzo Magalotti (d. 1637), Bishop of Ferrara, by Vincenzo Alsario della Croce, physician. A memorandum addressed to the newly appointed bishop of Ferrara in preparation for the latter's move to that city, giving advice on appropriate diet and regimen. Endorsement: 'Pro bona valetudine tenenda consilium doctoris Crucii'. Produced in Rome.

13 May 1628

1 volume 8ff. disbound (original foliation 13-20), approx. 275 x 200 mm.

Purchased from HP Kraus, 1997.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Formerly in the library of Frederick North (1766-1827), 5th Earl of Guilford, and later in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS. 5236); cf. Wellcome MS. 7153.