Chambret, de

Traité d'horologiographie, ou méthode pour construire des cadrans au soleil. Illustrated by numerous pen-drawn astronomical figures and diagrams. Pasted on the title-page is a cut-down engraved coat-of-arms, not identified.

1682

1 volume 8 ll. first 2 & last bl.. + 67 pp. + 5 bl. ll. + 1 l. + 57 pp. 4to. 22 x 171/2 cm. Original mottled calf binding. A number of margins are stained with green paint.

Purchased 1928.

This MS. is anonymous, but written by the same hand as the 'Receptes pour les chevaus' (MS. 1545).

From the Berhard II Collection.

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).