Corvus della Mirandola, Andreas

Opera nova... Tratta della chiromantia. Stampata in [Venezia] in Marzaria alla Libreria da Jesus appresso la Zulian, ad instantia di Nicolo e Domenico Fratelli MD. xix ad 14 Gennaro. Spontoni (Ciro) Della metoposcopia, overo commensuratione delle linee della fronte. [Edited by Giovanni Battista Spontoni]. 1625. Copied by Giglio Guidi, 'mattematicho e fisigho dal Bergamo'. Illustrated by numerous pen-drawn figures of hands and faces. The work by Corvus is entered as No. 13272 in Proctor. The earliest known edition is undated and appears in Hain No. 5776, but the G. K. W. Vol. VII, p. 166 considers this to be a 16th century work, basing this opinion on the water-mark of the paper. The second work in this MS. is a copy of the first edition of Spontoni. Produced in Bergamo.

1650

1 volume 40 ff. + 64 ll. + 88 ll. 16mo. 131/2 x 10 cm. Original vellum binding.

Purchased 1935.

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).