Arcana mirabilia magnorum hominum

Date:
Early 17th century
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MS.51
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Arcana mirabilia magnorum hominum. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The work is in Italian and consists entirely of medical receipts and remedies, mostly attributed to celebrities of the 16th and early 17th centuries.

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Early 17th century

Physical description

1 volume 1 l. + 80 ff. + 8 bl. ll. + 6 ll. + 2 bl. ll. 8vo. 181/2 x 13 cm. Original limp vellum covers. The first leaf contains a pen-drawn coat of arms of a bishop, picked out in gold.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1914.

Finding aids

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).

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  • 32748