Leonellus, Florentzola (& others)

Collection of medical receipts: in Latin. The date 1517 is found on fol. 36, and 1518 on fol. 101. There are a few entries possibly by a slightly later 16th cent. hand. Produced in [Florence?].

c. 1520

1 volume 177 ff. + 4 un-numbered ll. 4to. 211/2 X 131/2 cm. Modern paper covers. Ff. 1, 169-171 are wanting. The un-numbered ll. are between fol. 175 and fol. 176, and their upper halves have been torn away. Some leaves are probably missing at the end.

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 1910.

The Compiler of this collection seems to have been a Physician or Apothecary, most probably at Florence, though there are also numerous references to Bologna.

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).

Many of the receipts are assigned to Leonellus Florentzola (83), Jeronimus de Florentzola (75) and Ludovicus de Leonibus (31). Of these the last named was a professor of Medicine at Bologna [1465-1528]. Leonellus may possibly be identical with Leonellus de Faventia de Victoriis [Vettori] [ -1520], also of Bologna, whose works were 'Practica medicinalis', published in 1545, and 'De egritudinibus infantum' in the same year, both at Ingolstadt. 'De Victoriis [Vettori]' was an old Florentine family, and he may also have been known as 'Florenzola' though he is usually 'de Faventia'. No record has been traced of Jeronimus de Florentzola.