Browne, Antony

Tractatus de horographia. The 48 ff. which are of slightly larger format than the main text, contain tables and 68 pen-drawn diagrams and figures, some in black and red. The Author's name has been erased from the first leaf, but it appears on the first leaf of text. It is possible that this MS. was written at Liège, as the first two 'Tabulae' are based 'pro altitudine Poli Leodii'. Produced in Liège?

c. 1655

1 volume 3 bl. ll. + 40 ff. last 4 bl.. + 48 ff. last 3 bl.. 4to. 211/2 x 17 cm., 23 x 18 cm. Original calf binding. Some margins frayed.

Purchased 1928.

It is suggested that the writer may be the mathematical instrument-maker of the Minories in London, mentioned by Pepys in an entry for 24 March 1663, from whom the Diarist bought a measuring rule. He also had a 'perspective instrument' made for him by the same firm in 1669. [Cf. Diary. Ed. Wheatley. Vol. III, pp. 75, 76, 240, 241, 391. Vol. IV, p. 15. Vol. VIII, pp. 310, 317].

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).