Magninus, Caspar

De linearum, nevorumque prognostico faciei humanae contingentium codex tam naturaliter, quam accidentaliter fortunam hominum ostendentium per Metaposchopicam [sic] sive phixionomicam [sic] artem elaboratus. Illustrated by many rough pen and wash drawings of heads, eight of which are full-page. The text is partly in Italian, and partly in Latin.

Middle 17th century

1 volume 1 bl. ll. + 96 ff. (last 5 bl.). folio. 30 x 211/2 cm. Original boards. Outer margin of last leaf torn away.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1929.

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).