Adelmann research materials collection, circa 1921-1963.
Collection Number: 4703

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Adelmann research materials collection, circa 1921-1963.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4703
Abstract:
Consists mainly of reproductions of manuscripts and some printed material by or about mainly 16th- and 17th-century Italian scientists, amassed and indexed by Howard B. Adelmann.
Creator:
Adelmann, Howard B. (Howard Bernhardt), 1898-1988
Malpighi, Marcello, 1628-1694.
Fabricius, ab Aquapendente, approximately 1533-1619.
Atti, Gaetano, 1806-1879.
Baglivi, Giorgio, 1668-1707.
Redi, Francesco, 1626-1697.
Bellini, Lorenzo, 1643-1704.
Rossetti, Donato.
Oldenburg, Henry, approximately 1615-1677.
Cassini, Giovanni Domenico, 1625-1712.
Bohn, Johannes, 1640-1718.
Busacchi, Vincenzo.
Guglielmini, Giovanni Domenico.
Haller, Albrecht von, 1708-1777.
Marsili, Luigi Ferdinando, 1658-1730.
Morgagni, Giambattista, 1682-1771.
Ghiselli, Antonio Francesco.
Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, 1608-1679.
Quanitities:
7 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in Latin, Italian, German, French, and English.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

American embryologist and historian of science; professor of histology and embryology at Cornell University, 1921-1963.
NOTES

112 v. of bound photocopies cataloged separately.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

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Adelmann research materials collection, #4703. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Scope and content

Consists mainly of reproductions of manuscripts and some printed material by or about mainly 16th- and 17th-century Italian scientists, amassed and indexed by Howard B. Adelmann in the course of his research on the history of anatomy, embryology and histology. Materials focus especially on 17th-century Italian anatomists Marcello Malpighi and Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, but also include Giorgio Baglivi, Francesco Redi, Lorenzo Bellini, Donato Rossetti, Henry Oldenburg, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Johannes Bohn, Vincenzo Busacchi, Giovanni Domenico Guglielmini, Albrecht von Haller, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, Giambattista Morgagni, Antonio Francesco Ghiselli, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, and others.

Scope and content

Includes also original autograph letters by Marcello Malpighi (6 items) and Gaetano Atti (3 items); manuscript Tractatus in libros de generatione (17th century), on reproduction, sensation, and the theory of knowledge; typescript bibliography of the works of Fabricius; typescript with pencilled notes on manuscripts by Malpighi; notes and drafts for Adelmann's biography of Malpighi; and glass slides including portraits of Malpighi. Libraries where unbound photocopies were made are not identified; wood blocks and their origin are also unidentified.

Scope and content

Additional bound photocopies (cataloged individually) include works by and about Malpighi, and works by Ulisse Aldrovandi, Thomas Bartholin, Lorenzo Bellini, Georges Cuvier, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, Giambattista Morgagni, Lorenz Oken, Francesco Redi, and others.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Adelmann, Howard B. (Howard Bernhardt), 1898-1988.
Subjects:
Medical scientists -- Italy.
Anatomists -- Italy.
Histology -- History -- Sources.
Embryology -- History -- Sources.
Anatomy -- History -- Sources.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 26
Achillini - Anatomicae Annot.
1520
Box 30
Aldrovandus - Orinthologiae Lib. XIV
Box 26
Ammon - Entwickslungsgeschichte des Menchlichen Auges.
1832
Box 26
Ammon - Bildung des Vogelauges
1833
Box 26
Ammon - Entwickslungsgeschichte des Auges.
1844
Box 25
Anon - G.A. Borelli
Box 27
Arantius - De Humano Foetu
1579
Box 27
Arenaprimo - Lettori dello Studio Messinese
1900
Box 25
Arenaprimo - Borelli a Malpighi
1906
Box 26
Arnold - Auges des Menschen
1832
Box 26
Arnold - Membrana Capsulo-Pupillaris
1833
Box 27
Atti - Malpighi
1835
Box 25
Atti - Lettera di L. Bellini
1847
Box 25
Atti - Vtia di Malpighi
1839
Box 27
Averroes - Paraphrasis
1890
Box 27
Barbensi - Malpigi
1954
Box 27
Barner - Exercitium Chimiae
1670
Box 27
Battistella - Processi D'Eresia
1901
Box 27
Bellini - De Struct. Renum
1662
Box 25
Bellini (Molinari-Atti) - Lettere
1844
Box 26
Belon - L'Histoire des Poissons
1551
Box 27
Benedictus - Anatomice
Box 27
Berres - Foramen Centrale Retinae Humanae
1833
Box 27
Berthold - Testis
1845
Box 27
Bilancioni - Malpighi- Senso del Gusto
1928
Box 27
Blasius - Formatio Intestinorum
1823
Box 27
Bohn - De Generationis Doctrina
1854
Box 25
Bonaretti - Poetico Estratto di Gloria
1674
Box 25
Bonomi - Osservazioni
1687
Box 30
Castro - A Castro Mulierum Medicina
Box 27
Camper - De Analogia Inter Animalia et Stirpes
1764
Box 27
Capparoni - Ritratto di Malpighi
1928
Box 27
Carpi - Commentaria
Box 27
Castiglioni - Bologna
1945
Box 27
Cazin - Estomac des Oiseaux
1887
Box 30
Coiter - De Ouorum Exordio
1573
Box 27
Collins - Anatomy
1685
Box 30
Cooper - Testis
1830
Box 30
Cooper - Testis
1841
Box 27
Cowper - Descrip. Gland.
1702
Box 27
Daglio - Malpighi- Sistema Nervoso
1955
Box 27
Dall'ossa - Malpighi-Albertini
1956
Box 27
Dall'ossa - Pesci-Consulti-Albertinni
1956
Box 27
Daniels - Hist D'un Livre
1886
Box 26
De Back - De Corde
Box 27
Del Gaizo - Motus Anim Borelli
1914
Box 30
Del Gaizo - Borelli
1980
Box 25
Del Gaizo - Lettera di Malpighi
1919
Box 28
DeMaria - Elogio Storico di Luigi Rolando
1846
Box 28
Diemerbroeck - Anatome
1679
Box 28
Diemerbroeck - Anatome
1683
Box 28
Diemerbroeck - Anatome
1685
Box 28
Droysen - Renibus et Capsulis Renalibus
1752
Box 28
Dursy - Urniere
1865
Box 28
Dursy - Messungen
1867
Box 28
Dutrochet - Enveloppes du Foetus
1817
Box 28
Dutrochet - L'Oeuf des Oiseaux
1819
Box 28
Enders - Epoophoron
1902
Box 25
Fabretti - Elogio di Malpighi
1721
Box 25
Fabroni - Vita Malpighi
1769
Box 25
Fabroni - Vita Malpighi
1779
Box 30
Fernel - De Medicina
1554
Box 28
Ferraresi - Canali di Gartner
1897
Box 28
Ferraresi - Canali di Gartner
1897
Box 25
Ferrari - Zelotypia
1690
Box 28
Forni - Persiceto
1921
Box 25
Fracassati - Oratio in Funere Massarii
1655
Box 25
Fracassati et al - Oratio in Funere Mariani Habita
1662
Box 28
Franzel - Sclerotica Choroidea
1830
Box 25
Frati - Medaglie di Malpighi
1856
Box 25
Fulchignoni - Malpighi Sui Sensi del Gusto E. del Tatto
1938
Box 28
Geoffroy - An Homimis Primordia. Vermis?
1704
Box 25
Giordani - Villa Malpighi- Salina (Frati-107)
1841
Box 25
Giordani - Villa Malpighi- Salina (Frati-108)
1841
Box 28
Goidanich - Primi Documenti
1941
Box 28
Gottsche - Uber den Bau der Retina
1836
Box 28
Gottsche - Ueber das Pigment des Auges
1836
Box 25
Guglielmini - Oratio (Frati 73)
1734
Box 28
Guthrie - Bladder
1834
Box 28
Hahn - Theorien der Epigenese U. Eveolution
1823
Box 28
Hanuschke - De Genitalium Evolutione
1837
Box 28
Henle - De Membrana Pupillari
1832
Box 28
Hennig - Der Katarrh
1862
Box 28
Hoffmann - Comm. In de Usu
1625
Box 28
Hofmann - Institutiones
1645
Box 28
Home - Prevost
1823
Box 28
Huschke - Streitpuncte
1833
Box 28
Huschke - Uber Einige Streitpuncte
1835
Box 28
Huschke - Hoden
1844
Box 28
Jenritza - De Hominis Generatione
1841
Box 28
Kiesselbach - Evolutionis Nervi Sympathici
1835
Box 28
Kob - De Mutatione Sexus
1823
Box 28
Kupffer - Enstetlung
1864
Box 28
Langly - Schrader- Obervationes
1674
Box 28
L'Archiginnasio - I. Indice Bologna
1906-1935
Box 28
L'Archiginnasio - II. Indice Bologna
1936-1965
Box 25
Laurenzi - Tributo Lugubre
1693
Box 29
Lealis - De Partibus
1707
Box 29
Lesky - Zeugungslehre
1950
Box 29
Libavius - De Ovi Gallinarum
1610
Box 29
Liberkuhn - Auges des Wirbelthier-Embryo
1871
Box 29
Lilienfeld - Zur Morphologie U. Entwick, Der Geschlectsorgane
1856
Box 25
Lipari - Galenistarum See Malpighi- Conclusiones- Apologia
Box 29
Lipari - Galenistarum Triumphus
1665
Box 29
Lipari - Malpighi-Conclusiones See Galenistarum Triumphus
Box 25
Lisfranc - Urethra
1824
Box 25
Lovarini - Discorsi Astrologici
1912
Box 25
Malpighi - De Pulmonibus
1930
Box 25
Malpighi - Conclusiones- Apologia
Box 25
Malpighi - Memorie di Me
1902
Box 26
Malpighi - Ritrovamenta dei Manoscritti di Malpighi (Frati, 94-98)
Box 29
Mandosio - Theatron
1784
Box 29
Marchetti - Anatomia
1690
Box 29
Marsili - Observaxioni Intorno al Bosforo
1681
Box 29
Mauros - Uber Die Zeugung in all Gemeinen
1827
Box 29
Mayoor - De Mascula Sobole Procreanda
1723
Box 29
Meckel - Tr. Cuview e
1809
Box 29
Medici - Vita e Scritti Degli Anatomici Bologna
1853
Box 29
Messina - CCCL. Anniversario
1900
Box 29
Meyer und Wolf - Vogelkunde
1810
Box 29
Meyerstein - Ueber die Eileiter
1865
Box 29
Moleschott - Menschen und der Theire
1870
Box 29
Monalbani - Antineotiologia
16-
Box 29
Morawa - Generatione Notatu
1820
Box 29
Morel - De Generatione
1787
Box 30
Morgagni - Adversaria
1719
Box 29
Muller - Ueber das Coloboma Iridis
1830
Box 25
Munster - Malpighi E Baglivi
1949
Box 29
Neumann - De Exclusione Ovulorum
1717
Box 25
Neviani - Lettera di Marsili a Malpighi
Box 29
Noortwyk - De Natura Humana
1735
Box 29
Oellacher -
1869
Box 29
Oken - Lehrb. d. Naturg. -III
1816
Box 29
Origonis - Erzeugung u. Ihren Theorien
1843
Box 29
Orlando-Salinas - Malpigi
1928
Box 29
Orlando-Salinas - Malpighi
1928
Box 30
Pander - Metamorphoses
1817
Box 30
Pander - Ovum Incubatum
1817
Box 25
Parenti - Lettera Malpighi a Ramazzini
1839
Box 30
Parosanus - De Foetu
1621
Box 26
Paulus Minus - Medicus Igne
1678
Box 30
Phil Vet. Et Nov. - Bergundia
1681
Box 30
Photiades - Nonulla de Generatione
1838
Box 30
Pinto - Taddeo da Fiorenza
1888
Box 27
Plagge - Ovi Mammalium See Cazin - Estomac des Oiseaux
Box 30
Puteus - Apologia
1562
Box 26
Rambelli - Due Lettere di Malpighi
1834
Box 30
Rathke - Auges Beim Schleimfisch
1833
Box 26
Re - Discorso (Frati 85)
1810
Box 30
Redi - Tre Lettere
1903
Box 30
Reich - De Membrana Pupillari
1833
Box 26
Richter - Letters Aromatari
1662
Box 30
Robertson - Grew
1906
Box 30
Roederer - De Foetu Perfecto
1750
Box 30
Roesslein - De Differentiis Inter Foetum et Adultum
1783
Box 30
Rolando - Organogenesie
1823
Box 26
Rolando - Organogenesia
1822-28
Box 30
Rolando-Coeur - Canal Alimentaire
1823
Box 30
Roose - De Superfoetatione Nonnulla
1801
Box 26
Rusconi - Due Lettere di Redi
1839
Box 30
Samter - De Evolutione Ovi Avium
1853
Box 26
Sbaraglia - De Recent. Med. Stud.- Gott
1687
Box 26
Sbaraglia - Dissertationes Quibus Moderna Medicorum Studia Ventilantur
1693
Box 30
Scaliger - (on) Theophrastus
1566
Box 30
Seerich - De Generatione
1834
Box 30
Senk-Eisen - De Generatione
1802
Box 31
Simili - Cardano
1940
Box 26
Sorbelli - Almanacchi Bolognesi
1931
Box 26
Sprye - De Fluxu Menstruo
1685
Box 30
Stokes - Malpighi and his Writings
1910
Box 31
Suringar - De Nisu Formativo
1824
Box 30
T. Bartholin - Anatomia
1651
Box 27
T. Bartholin - Anatomia
1651
Box 31
Thiersch - Bildungsfeheler
1852
Box 31
Tiedemann - Der Vogel
1810
Box 31
Tiedemann - Zoologie
1814
Box 31
Trew - De Differentiis
1736
Box 31
Valenti - Organi Rudimentali
1885
Box 31
Valsalva - Opera
1740
Box 31
Varolius - Anatomia
1591
Box 26
Vecchietti (bib. Picena) - Divini Eustach Cecco
1884
Box 30
Velpeau - Anat. Chir/
1833
Box 31
Ventimiglia - Orazione
1839
Box 31
Volkmann - Coluber
1834
Box 31
Wachendorff - Commercii Litteraraii- Pupillary Membrane
1740
Box 31
Wachendorff -
1740
Box 31
Waldeyer -
1869
Box 31
Weber - Uteri et Ovariorum Puellae
1830
Box 31
Weber - Uterus Puellae
1830
Box 31
Weber - Geschlects-Organe
1846
Box 26
Weiss - Malpighi sue Opere
1884
Box 30
Wenzel - Structura Cerebri
1812
Box 31
Wittich -
1853
Box 31
Wrisberg - Commentationes
1800
Box 31
Zeno - Cont. Sbaraglia col Malpighi
1710
Box 31
Zerbi - Anatomia
1502
Box 31
Zerbi - Anatomia
1502
Box 31
Zuno - Malpighiana
1929