Myographia nova sive Musculorum omnium (in corpore humano hactenus repertorum) accuratissima descriptio, in sex praelectiones distributa. Nomina singulorum in suo quaeque loco, situque naturali, in aeneis musculorum iconibus exarantur: eorum item origines, insertiones, & usus graphice describuntur, additis insuper ipsius authoris, & aliorum nuperrimis observationibus & inventis. Opera & studio Joannis Browne, serenissimi Caroli Secundi, Britanniarum Regis, nec-non nosocomii regalis, quod est ad D. Thomae, chirurgi ordinarii.
John Browne (1642-1700)
Category
Books
Date
1684
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3200031
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 49, 54-88 [i.e. 90], [4] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; fol. Running number: 5504. Pagination: [24], 18, [1], 22-31, [1], 32-33, [1], p. 34, [1], p. 35, [1], 36-46, [2], 48-49, [1], 54-88, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript former shelfmark on front pastedown: "12.B.2". First rear fly-leaf once folded, with manuscript docket inscription: "12 Casid Rs[?]" and (in pencil) "tt[?] 4". Binding: seventeenth-century full mottled calf; blind double fillet border, with additional blind double fillet a quarter of the way in from spine-edge; gilt dotted roll pattern on board edges. Rebacked and repaired in calf. Gilt title on two dark green morocco labels on spine: 'Browne on muscles'. Brown sprinkled edges. Modern pencil note on front pastedown: "Repaired at Cambridge c. 1956".
Makers and roles
John Browne (1642-1700) Giulio Cesare Casseri (c.1552 - 1616) Robert White (London 1645 - London 1703) Sir Charles Scarburgh (1616-1694) William Molins