Cagali, Gasparo Di

Libro di ricette medicinali. Author's holograph MS. On the cover a pen-drawn coat of arms of the writer. Inside the cover notes of his personal affairs beginning 'Questo libero sie di Mº. gasparo barbiro e ceroicho che fu fiolo di mº antonio ceroicho da Legnago di chagalii habito in la contra di S. Zen...e questo libro fu scritto adi 15 agosto 1529...' The book contains a number of receipts, descriptions of diseases and remedies, and is illustrated by several small marginal pen-drawings of diseased organs, instruments, etc. Inside the lower cover two drawings of distilling apparatus. The work is written in the Verona dialect. Ef. 24v-32 contain a Latin-Italian list of the names of herbs. On the verso of the last leaf is a note of the birth and baptism, in 1530 at Verona, of the Author's son 'Zuan Antonio'. In the inscription inside the upper cover, the birth of a daughter 'Chatalina' on 14 November 1527 is mentioned. Produced in Verona.

1529

1 volume 3 ll. +75 ff. 8vo. 171/2 x 111/2 cm. Original vellum binding, with leather ties, one wanting.

Purchased from Davis and Orioli, 28 August 1928.

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).