Delaroche, Claude

Tractatus de Ortu et Interitu. De anima [Incomplete]. Usages de l'analemme. Selectarum insolentiumque dictionum collectio: a Latin-French glossary. Frequentiorum apud Philosophos terminorum ... collectio. Transcript of an 'Inspeximus' deed of 1332. The work on the Analemme (Planisphere) is illustrated with pen-drawn diagrams, etc. Contents: (1) Tractatus de Ortu et Interitu [Aristotelis] (36 ll.); (2) Compendiosa Ethicorum veritatis disquisitio. Pars 6a De anima [Aristotelis] [Incomplete] (ll. 37-59 + 8 bl. ll.); (3) Usages de l'analemme (ll. 68-111 + 4 bl. ll.); (4) Selectarum insolentiumque dictionum collectio (ll. 116-159 + 1 bl. l.); (5) Frequentiorum apud Philosophos terminorum utilissima brevisque collectio (ll. 161-169); (6) Transcrition [sic] du 12 septembre 1332. Original déposé à la préfecture de Macon (ll. 170-174). The writer's signature is found on the last leaf of the tract on the Analemme, the next leaf contains his pen-drawn coat of arms. The script is of the mid-19th cent. The Deed concerns an Agreement made between Aymon de Savoie [1291-1343] and Jean de Salignac, Bishop of Macon in respect of certain landed property.

Late 17th century

1 volume 188 ll. last 14 bl.. 8vo. 131/2 x 91/2 cm. Original gilt-stamped calf binding worn. All preliminary pages before the text of the first tract are missing.

Purchased 1930.

The transcript of the deed is perhaps by the Jean de Valois who has written 'Ex libris Johannis Valesii' on the inside of the upper cover, and again, with the addition of 'J. de Valois' on the verso of leaf *60.

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).