Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical LibraryI, MSS Written before 1650 A. D., II: Manuscripts After 1650 (A-M). Manuscripts After 1650 (N-Z)
- Publisher : Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : 1 col frontis.
Description:
This important reference work was compiled by S.A.J. Moorat, librarian of the Wellcome library from 1931 to 1946. Foreword of the first volume states that the '800 entries comprise about 1500 individual works which were written wholly or in part before the year 1650, the oldest being an Anglo-Saxon manuscript from about 1025A.D.' The second and third volume describes more than 4,000 manuscripts written after 1650, it includes a number of indexes and an Appendix providing an index of autograph letters.
Condition
3 vols, 4t0, orig. cloth. From an institutional library, a few ink stamps, Good.
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