Hippocrates (460-375 B.C.)

Les Aphorismes d'Hiporate [sic] apartenants à l'art de chirurgie et expliquées en forme d'examen.

Late 16th Century

1 volume 480 ll. (first & last 2 bl.). 16mo. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 cm. 18th cent. red morocco gilt stamped binding. One of the two leather and metal clasps wanting.

Purchased 1934.

A work with a very similar title was published by Bernardino Genga in Rome in 1694: but this MS. has been compared with the copy of that very rare book in the B.M., and there is no similarity.

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).