Leone Milanese

Compendio impirico, o arte medicinale impirica composta da Fra Leone Milanese cappuccino. Ad istancia delli sua conpagni alli quali a portato, e porta particulare affetto di cuore, e questo a fatto per che possino esercitare l'infermeria con maggior lume e sicureza...Dato in luce a me Fra Francesco da Peretola A.D. 1654, povero capuccino. Pratica medicinale D. F. Leone da Milano. Christophorus Parisiensis. Alfabeto del Alchimia, 1476 [Transcript]. Below the first title is a pen-drawing of a medicine cupboard. At the end of the second work is a rough diagram of a hand, with astrological signs. Contents: (1) Compendio impirico (380 pp.). (2) Trattato breve...dell'arte chimica (pp. 381-416). (3) Pratica medicinale (287 pp.). (4) Miscellaneous medical receipts, at the end a short work on Chiromancy (pp. 289-331 + 12 ll.). (5) Christophorus Parisiensis. Alfabeto (22 ll.). The first leaf and the last tract are by a different, and probably slightly later 17th cent. hand. MS. No. 3236 contains a transcript of the first work in this MS. by Reinerio Bertini, but under the title 'Esortazione empirica'. MS. No. 3237 contains a transcript of the second work by the same hand, in an abbreviated version. Here the scribe styles himself 'Rainerio Antonio Bertini'. There are also additional chemical, alchemical and other receipts and 'Secrets'. Produced in Florence.

1654

1 volume 18 ll. + 416 pp. + 331 pp. + 12 ll. + 22 ll. + 7 bl. ll. 4to. 20 x 141/2 cm. Original vellum binding.

Purchased 1913.

At Wellcome Collection: MS.3236 contains a transcript of the first work in this MS. by Reinerio Bertini, but under the title 'Esortazione empirica'. MS.3237 contains a transcript of the second work by the same hand, in an abbreviated version. Here the scribe styles himself 'Rainerio Antonio Bertini'.

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).