Montanus, Joannes Baptista (1498-1552) (& others)

Discursus et consilia.

A leaf of the Index at the beginning is wanting: the lower margins of the MS. are water-stained throughout, causing loss of text on the first two leaves.

The volume consists of a student's notes of clinical lectures and 'Consilia', mostly under the name of Montanus.

On fol. 13v [Franciscus] Frigimelica [1491-1559] is mentioned, while other cases are assigned to an anonymous 'Magister'. These notes were most probably taken down at the Hospital of St. Francesco at Padua, where both Montanus and Frigimelica gave clinical lectures.

The foliation is original 1-38, and this MS. at the time of writing formed part of a larger volume of student's notes by different hands. These included the two volumes of Frigimelica's lectures, which contain ff. 39-89, and ff. 98-130 [cf. MSS. 281, 282], the second of these is dated Padua 1537.

Produced in Padua.

c. 1535

1 volume 1 l. + 38 ff. (last 2 bl.). 4to. 21 x 16 cm. Modern vellum covers from part of a 'Rotulus condemnationum et absolutionum' [Rome?], dated 1361.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1930.

At Wellcome Collection:

As noted above in the Description field, MSS.281-282 and MS.567 were originally part of the same volume.

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).