Miscellanea X

Collection of 24 short works in Portuguese, mostly transcripts of earlier writings: including anonymous tracts on chiromancy and astrology, copies of records of the Inquisition at Lisbon, with accounts of Autos da fé, satirical poems, etc. By several hands.

c. 1735

1 volume 522 pp. + 24 ll. (last bl.). 4to. 21 × 15 cm. Modern green morocco-gilt binding by Lortic.

Purchased at Sotheby's 20/6/1930, Lot 137.

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).