Jurisprudence, Medical: 17th cent.

Collection of Appeals for Remission of Sentence or Annulment in a number of criminal cases, including seduction, rape, poisoning, wounding, etc. Among the contents are six printed items. Written by various hands, in Latin [etc.]. Entries marked * are printed. (1) Alleged seduction, and breach of promise of marriage, 1677 (ff. 1-10). This includes medical evidence by the Defendant that he suffered from a venereal complaint: it is partly in Italian. (2) Case of theft at Perugia, 1679 (ff. 11-19). (3) *Case of theft. n.p., n.d. (ff. 20-23). (4) *Case of simony, swindling and fraud, Rome, 1683 (ff. 24-39). (5) Case for the Defendant in No. 1 (ff. 40-45). (6) Case of wounding at Brindisi, n.d. (ff. 46-49). (7) *Conspiracy to assassinate. n.p., n.d. (ff. 50-54). (8) Abduction of a married woman, Rome, 1680 (ff. 55-58). (9) Case of sodomy. n.p., n.d. (ff. 59-66). (10) Case of money-clipping, Rome, n.d. (ff. 67-70). (11) Case of poisoning, n.p., n.d. (ff. 71-78). (12) Signs of virginity and of rape: an official statement by unnamed 'Medicinae et Chirurgiae Professores,' n.p., n.d. (ff. 79, 80). (13) Case of alleged rape, Rome, 1679 (ff. 81-94). With evidence given by midwives and physicians: some in Italian. (14) Plea for mitigation of sentence for murder, Vetula, n.d. (fol. 95). (15) Continuation of No. 13, Rome, 1679 (ff. 96-105). (16) A will case, Rome, n.d. (ff. 106, 107). (17) Case of illegal entry and attempted rape, n.p., n.d. (ff. 108, 109). (18) Continuation of No. 16 (ff. 110-115). (19) *Subornation to murder, Nocera, 1681 (ff. 116-133). (20) *Financial fraud, Rome, 1680 (ff. 134-141). (21) Points to be observed in making an Inventory, n.p., n.d. (fol. 142). (22-23) Henchiridion Institutionum civilium et canonicarum, n.p., n.d. (ff. 143-153, 154-158). (24) On the 'Gabella' at Sinigaglia, n.p., n.d. (fol. 159). (25) Case of theft at Sinigaglia (Incomplete), n.d. (fol. 160). (26) Plea for nullification of a sentence of ten years banishment, Sinigaglia, 1702 (ff. 161-166). (27) *Orazione funebre del Signor Abbate Cesare Mozamici ... nel Duomo di Cosenza nelle solenni esequie del ... Filippo Quarto il Grande Re di Spagna, e di Napoli. Cosenza: G. B. Moio & G. B. Russo, 1666 (ff. 169-178). Produced in Rome, etc.

1666-1702

1 volume 178 ff. folio. 271/2 × 20 cm. Original boards: the lower cover, and both ties are wanting. A foliation has been added in pencil.

Purchased 1932.

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).