Guidi, Leto (1711-1777)

  • Guidi, Leto (1711-1777)
Date:
c. 1740
Reference:
MS.2652
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Description

Ottica prattica, o sia modo facile, e sicuro per travgliare i principali lavori ottici. Illustrated with numerous pen-drawn figures and diagrams, and a wash drawing (fol. 129) of a 'Corno d'Alessandro'. This MS is anonymous, and possibly unfinished, but a comparison of text with MS. 2653 shows that it is a longer and probably earlier version of the same work which is by 'Guidi' (1711-1777). Produced in Florence.

Publication/Creation

c. 1740

Physical description

1 volume 2 ll. (last bl.).+ 131 ff. 4to. 22 x 19 cm. Original gilt-stamped morocco binding. Upper margin of t.p. Cut away and repaired.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1930.

Biographical note

He is perhaps the person entered on p. 50 (No. 2707) in the 'Catalogo con aggiornamenti. Instituto e Museo di Storia delle Scienze' Florence 1952, whose full name was Leto Guidi of Vallambrosa.

Ownership note

On the verso of the first unnumbered eaf 'Cat. Lonigo No. 701 acq. 12 maggio 1825'.

Finding aids

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).

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  • 86170