Breviary of the art of discerning others

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.

Middle 17th century

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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Purchased 1928.

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).