Finding Aid for the Battuti Bianchi Casebook Biomed.0270

Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.

UCLA Library Special Collections

Online finding aid last updated 2020 December 7.

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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections

Title: Battuti Bianchi casebook

Creator: Bianchi, Battuti

Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0270

Physical Description: 1 unknown (100 leaves)

Date (inclusive): 1563-1570

Language of Material: Italian .

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4983397

Scope and Contents

Collection contains Italian physician Battuti Bianchi's casebook, Libro Dove de Nota di Infirmi. Manuscript records are hospital notes written in the vernacular, with names of patients, sex, dates in hospital, symptoms, and outcomes of more that 900 cases. Written on both sides of each leaf with several cases on each page. Margins water-stained but ink remains legible. Contemporary vellum, ms. spine and top cover titles; top cover decorations sewn-on.