Physica

Physica octo libris contenta. Title within historiated pen-drawn panel: illustrated with a few diagrams and figures. Written in a small, difficult, and contracted hand. The text consists of epitomized commentaries on the 'Physica', probably taken down at an Italian university: books VII and VIII are dealt with together in the last three pages.

1666

1 volume 1 [2] ll. + 124 ll. 4to. 191/2 × 14 cm. Original vellum binding. The second preliminary leaf has been cut out.

Purchased at Sotheby's 28/2/1899, Lot 480 (part).

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).