Guidi, Leto (1711-1777)

Dell'ottica. Illustrated with a few pen-drawn diagrams. The spine is lettered 'Guidi Ottica'. The text is incomplete and some of the sections are arranged in different order, but this MS. is definitely a version of the first part of MS. No. 2652. Produced in Florence.

mid-18th century

1 volume 75 pp. + 16 bl. ll. 4to. 21 × 141/2 cm. Original quarter-calf binding. A t.p. and some leaves at the end have been torn out.

Purchased 1911.

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).