Miscellanea XVI

Collection of short tracts in Portuguese, with three in Latin, mainly of historical or ecclesiastical interest, some in verse: and including an abbreviated version of the 'Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum'. Include reference to Franciscans. Written mostly by the same hand throughout.

c. 1670

1 volume 216 ff. 4to. 21 × 16 cm. Modern crushed morocco-gilt binding by Pagnant, stamped on the sides with a coat of arms, with motto 'Superabo' [? Peñaranda de Bracamonte]. The last leaf is a fragment only and has been mounted. A foliation in pencil has been added.

Purchased 1931.

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).