Cocchi, Antonio (1695-1758)

Istituzioni anatomiche. This MS. contains notes of lectures by an anonymous student. Produced in Florence.

c. 1750

1 volume 196 ll. first 3 bl.. 4to. 211/2 x 151/2 cm. Original boards, back-strip damaged. A leaf has been cut out at the end.

Purchased 1935.

'Cocchi' is inscribed on the spine. This must be the elder Antonio Cocchi, professor of anatomy and physiology at Florence, where his son Raimondo also lectured. But on the verso of the fifth leaf of the text, Lorenz Heister-here spoken of as 'l'istero'-is mentioned as being among the most celebrated anatomists 'ancora viventi'. He died in 1758.

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).