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.

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).

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