Advocatus à Quinto, Petrus

Super genituram Francisci Mariae Advocati à Quinto Vercellensis, considerationes et disputationes per Petrum Advocatum ejus genitorem. Author's holograph MS. Illustrated by pen-drawn horoscopes. The work begins with a poetical dedication by the Author to his son, with whose future life, as forecast by astrological methods, this MS. is mainly concerned. At the end is a note of the births of four other children, the last in 1586, but the main work was completed in 1580. Produced in Vercelli.

1580-1586

1 volume 2 bl. ll., 136 ll. 4to. 26 x 171/2 cm. Original half vellum binding.

Purchased 1924.

On the first leaf 'Ex bibliotheca Conventus Sancti Francisci Vercellarum'.

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).