Varia medicamenta

Written in a small neat hand, and possibly a copy prepared for publication. Foliation, headings, and small vignettes above the main chapter headings, also small drawings of medical instruments-in red. This MS. is a Physician's note-book of diseases and remedies: in several places, the first person is used as regards a treatment and its result. On the fly-leaf at the end, in an 18th cent. hand 'Scritto nell'anno 1563', which may have been taken from a title-page, now lost. Ff. 53-78 deal with the 'Morbus Gallicus' and other venereal diseases, in which the use of Guaiacum and Sarsaparilla is recommended.

1563

1 volume xxxx ff. + ff. 17-104 + 4 ll. tall 16mo. 15 x 51/2 cm. Original vellum binding, lettered as above. The work is apparently complete, in spite of the unusual foliation: but there is no title-page. The last 4 ll. have been bound in reverse.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1911.

On the first fly-leaf is the signature of Antonio Dominico Viola in a late 17th cent. hand: and two other signatures, struck through and illegible. At the end also 'Jo Orfeo Sala de Lavone ditto Trompia Anno 1671'.

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).