MS2520

Libro intitulado de varios secretos de medesina [sic] y cirurjia, etc. Recopilados y esprimentados por mi ... cirurjano apraticant en la ciutat de Tarragona, etc. Frontispiece of a pen-drawing of SS. Cosmas and Damian with an ornamented shield: large pen-drawn vignette of the B.V.M. supporting the dead Christ, with a similar shield. At the end a pen-drawing of the 'Vein Man'. There are additions by different hands. The date on the title-page has been altered. It seems to have been originally '1772', but the second seven has been written over so that it reads '1732'. On the penultimate leaf verso, is a remedy 'Contra la epilepsia' by a different hand, dated 1777. Some scribblings at the beginning and inside the volume, in which the name Francisco Piquer occurs several times. Produced in Tarragona.

Tarragona, Spain, Europe, 1772 [1732]

Material: paper; 92 ll 4to.; cm dimensions: width 15 cm, length 20 1/2 cm

Purchased 1929.

There additions by differents hands. The date on the title-page has been altered. It seems to have been originally '1972', but the second seven has been written over so that it reads '1732'. On the penultimate leaf verso, is a remedy 'Contra la epilepsia' by different hand, dated 1777. Some scribblings at the begining and inside the volume, in which the name Francisco Piquer occurs several times.