Loci communes medici

Loci communes medici. In Latin and French, by two different compilers. The earlier part in both volumes is entirely in Latin, and may have been begun about the middle of the 17th cent., though the date 1667 is found on fol. 371v of the Vol. 1. This section contains extracts from late 16th cent. and 17th cent. medical works. An entry on Vol. 11, fol. 49v bears the date 1666. The entries by the later compiler are in French and Latin, with French predominating, and contain extracts from medical writers, notes of cases, etc., dated from the later part of the 17th cent. to 1721 (Vol. I, fol. 327). In Vol. II there are a few entries in French, and some on astronomical topics by a third writer; among these the date 1759-in the extract on 'Aphélie'-occurs.

c. 1640-1720

2 volumes 2 vols. Vol. I, 7 ll. (first & last 2 bl.). + 602 ff. + 8 ll. (last 4 bl.). Vol. II, 4 ll. + 379 ff. + 82 ll. + 10 ll. folio. 301/2 X 21 cm. Original calf binding.

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From the Verdeil Collection, purchased Geneva 1928.

The two compilers of these MSS. are the same as those of MS. No. 210 (Consultationes], and as suggested in the Catalogue entry for that MS., the later hand may be that of Pierre Rivallier of Nîmes. All three MSS. are from the same provenance.

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).