Anatomy and receipts

Raccolta di 46 Conclusioni mediche, di una critica fatta contro le medesime, e della famosissima Apologia di Monsignore Marcello Malpighi, allora Lettor Primario in Messina, et al presente Medico segreto della Santita di N. S. Papa Innocenzio Duodecimo. Ff. 1-98 contain the texts of the great Malpighian controversy concerning the old and new anatomy, physiology, and theory of medicine. It includes the 'Galenistarum triumphus', published at Cosenza in 1665, by Michael Lipari [ -1676], the adversary of Malpighi, on behalf of the Galenists and Arabists (ff. 11-27), in Latin. This is followed (ff. 28-98) by Malpighi's 'Apologia', a crushing reply, written in Italian in 1665, under the name of 'Dottor Placidio Papadopoli Messinese'. The 'Apologia' does not appear to have been printed at the time, but is first found in the 'Opera posthuma', London, 1697. The remainder of the MS. contains medical receipts, as well as chemical remedies and processes by several late 17th cent. hands.

c. 1695

1 volume 13 ll. + 134 ff. (last 9 bl.). folio. 26 1/2 × 19 1/2 cm. Original vellum binding. The last (blank?) leaf is mostly torn away.

Purchased 1908.

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).