Montalbani, Ovidio (1602-1671)

L'Ardelio dialogo, overo Difesa da quanto contro i Medici che cosi facilmente non purgano ha publicato in un Discurso astrologico sopra l'anno regenente 1662. Contemporary transcript written by Agazzito Sconti of Ancona. The added leaf is a folded folio printed broadside (25 × 17 cm.) 'In antipharmaceuticam medicinam phlebotomiae nimium tribuentem Tetrastichon', signed 'Scholhbonpsnhsis endaímpsn'. The same appears in MS. on the verso of the last leaf of text. Produced in Bologna?

1662

1 volume 23 ll. + 1 l. 4to. 19 1/2 × 14 1/2 cm. Original boards. Slightly damp-stained.

Purchased 1933.

Montalbani was professor of botany, medicine, philosophy and jurisprudence at Bologna University.

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).