Breviary of the art of discerning others

  • Rubeis, Dominicus de
Date:
Middle 17th century
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MS.699
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Breviary of the art of discerning others. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Lettered outside the upper cover in ink 'Of Discerning of Men. Tomus primus [?]'. The MS. is a work on physiognomy in tabular form, and appears to be an English version of the 'Tabulae physiognomonicae' by Dominicus de Rubeis, published at Venice in 1639.

Publication/Creation

Middle 17th century

Physical description

1 volume 112 pp. + 24 bl. ll. + 4 ll. (last bl.). obl. 8vo. 111/2 x 18 cm. Original rough calf binding: clasp wanting. Some leaves are perhaps missing at the beginning.

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

Acquisition note

Purchased 1928.

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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  • 57510