Optica, Catoptrica, Dioptrica. In Italian

Historiated pen-drawn title-page, illustrated with neatly executed pen-drawn figures and diagrams, and written throughout in a very neat Italic hand. This MS. appears to be a student's notes of lectures at an unnamed 'Collegio' which started in 1683 (cf. Prelusione prima, fol. 2.). The date on the title-page is 1684. 'Cavagliere' (i.e. Bonaventura Cavalieri [1598-1647]) is mentioned on the first page, and it seems probable that these lectures were given at the Jesuit College in Bologna. Produced in Bologna?

1683-4

1 volume 107 [108] ll. (last 3 bl.). 4to. 201/2 × 151/2 cm. Original calf-gilt binding. A leaf before the last (blank) leaf, and some leaves at the end have been torn out.

Purchased 1934.

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).