Constancio, Franciso Solano (1777-1846)

Extrait du 'Lexicon Aegyptiaco-Latinum ex veteribus illius linguae monumentis ... collectum et elaboratum à Maturin Veyssière La Croze [sic] Quod in compendium redegit... Christianus Scholtz ... Notulas quasdam et indices adjecit Carolus Godofredus Woide. Oxonii. E Typographo Clarendoniano. MDCCLXXV.' Avec de nombreuses additions et remarques critiques, philologiques, mythologiques, traduit par F. S. Constancio, D. M. Paris. Novembre 1828. Translator's holograph MS. (Incomplete). Paris The end is wanting. In the translator's preliminary remarks (second preliminary leaf) the date 1839 is found, but the work is unfinished.

1828-1839

8ll. (first & last bl.). + 96 ll. + 9 ll. (last 2 bl.). 4to. 231/2 x 181/2 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.

Purchased 1933 (accession 66062).

Francisco Solano Constancio (1777-1846) was a Portuguese physician, diplomat, philologist, and scientific writer. Intending to study medicine in London, he was forced to leave England owing to his strong sympathy with the Revolution in France, where he obtained his M.D. Returning to Portugal in 1799 he was an advocate of vaccination there. He came back to France in 1813, and in 1820 was appointed Portuguese Ambassador to the United States. He eventually settled in Paris in 1832, and devoted himself to writing on various medical, scientific and literary-philological subjects. He is entered as 'SOLANO CONSTANCIO' in the B.M. Catalogue.

At Wellcome Collection: MS.1783 is by Constancio's father, Manoel Constancio (1725-1817).

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).