Monticelli, Ercole

Libro di secreti medicinali sopra cavalli ed altri animali ... On the title-page are the blazoned arms of Monticelli, within a large historiated decorative ornament. On the verso of the last leaf is a note of the birth of twin girls on 5 June 1669 who were baptised at St. Andrea's Church, but the place is not given. Book-plate showing a tree in a field in front of a rising sun; with motto 'Ma perseguir virtude e conoscenza'.

1632

1 volume 184 pp. + 22 ll. 4to. 20 x 141/2 cm. T.p. on vellum. 19th cent. morocco binding with arabesque decorations in gold, and stamped on the sides with the arms of Monticelli. T.p. slightly damaged, and margins cropped.

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 at Sotheby's 10/11/1931, Lot 408.

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).