Clock, Mantua

  • Micheli, Pietro Adamo
Date:
1747
Reference:
MS.3542
Part of:
Micheli, Pier Antonio (1679-1737)
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Della dichiaratione del' horologio di Mantua. Seconda et nuova editione, illustrata et abbellita in cio che prima era meno bella et oscura. Per Joacomo Rufineli Venetiano. The last 19 ll. contain pen-drawings of the various parts of the clock. The title as given on the third leaf is: 'Dichiaratione di Pier Adamo sopra l'horologio di Mantua, fabricato per il singularissimo Astrologo Bartolomeo de Manfredi ...'

Produced in Mantua.

Publication/Creation

1747

Physical description

1 volume 24 ll. + 19 ll. folio. 29 × 21 1/2 cm. Original boards. Damp-stained throughout, some leaves slightly defective.

Acquisition note

There is no record in the library at Wellcome Collection accession registers of how this manuscript was acquired. From the accession number, it was probably acquired between summer 1924 and summer 1925, but there is no indication of whether it was purchased or received as a gift, of the source, or (if purchased) of the price or even the currency paid. Most items on the appropriate page in the register were purchased at auction in London, from Stevens' or Sotheby's, but a few were purchased from R. Lier in Florence.

Ownership note

Pasted on a fly-leaf is the engraved armorial book-plate of the Vernon family.

Finding aids

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).

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  • 44564