Albert, Philip

Examen de practica sobre casos particolas del Art de Cirurgia, prets de molts y diferens autors, fet dia 10 Mayg 1724. Codern de reseptas tretas de molts y diferens autors molt aprofitos per los Cirurgions y cosa probads fet dia 8 febrer 1727. Philip Albert Cirurgio. Before the text, an engraved portrait of St. Thomas Aquinas (by P. Mariette le fils) has been inserted. In the second part on fol. 78, there is a rough pen-drawing of 'Sant Ramon'; and on the verso of the third un-numbered leaf at the end, a crude sketch of a peacock. The date 1739 is found on the last leaf. On fol. 95 of the first section is a signature 'Albert Cirurgio de la Manrresana', written at the end of a case-history dated 1733. Three leaves at the end contain a note on 'Aygua que se anomeno Mater Balsami'. On the fly-leaf at the beginning are scribblings by Ramon Albert, apparently dated 1777, who seems to have been a surgeon, and perhaps the son of the compiler of this MS. On a fly-leaf at the end, is a note by another hand of the death of Maria Albert y Grau, wife of Ramon Albert, Surgeon of Solsona, on 25 September 1782, which is probably by his hand. Written in Catalan, with a few passages in Latin. Produced in Solsona.

1724-1739

1 volume 2 ll. + 96 ff. + 79 [78] ff. + 15 ll. 4to. 201/2 x 151/2 cm. Original vellum binding. Most of the second preliminary leaf and of the last leaf has been torn out. A fly-leaf at the end has also been cut out. Fol. 58 of the second part is doubled.

Purchased at Sotheby's 10/6/1931, Lot 510 (Part).

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).