Saintamour

Note-book containing miscellaneous entries, including many quotations from classical authors in Latin and Greek; notes on Hebrew grammar, rhetoric, and on Pindar's poems. With jottings on personal expenses, a few medical receipts and clinical notes of cases, etc.: in French and Latin. Produced in Montbrun.

1613-1624

1 volume 175 ll. 8vo. 131/2 x 8 cm. Original vellum covers from a leaf of a 14th cent. Service Book. Eight leaves have been torn out of the middle of the volume, the first and last leaves are slightly damaged, and a number of leaves dampstained.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1930.

The script is difficult, but the Author of the MS. seems to have been a Jansenist, and is possibly a relative of Louis Gorin de Saintamour [1619-1687]. Among his case-histories are those of his Father, Sister and Uncle. There is also an anti-Jesuit acrostic.

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).

Outside the upper cover signature of 'C. Lemoine' and below 'Ex libris J. B[aptis]te Moulinet' both by 18th cent. hands.