Statuta facultatis medicinae parisiensis, supremi senatus authoritate confirmata, anno M.DCC.LI. - Ritus usus et laudabiles Facultatis medicinae parisiensis consuetudines. - De Antiquitate et dignitate Scolae medicae parisiensis panegyris

Substantial compilation of these three texts setting forth the statutes of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, together with the related legal instruments: royal declarations or edicts, rulings of the Parlement, and a judgment of the Châtelet of Paris. 

The second part sets out in detail the conditions governing the conferral of degrees, while the final section comprises several discourses on medicine.

Bound after the principal work are Hyacinthe Théodore Baron’s "Ritus usus et laudabiles Facultatis medicinae parisiensis consuetudines" and Gabriel Naudé’s "De Antiquitate et dignitate Scolae medicae parisiensis panegyris", published in  Paris by G.F. Quillau in 1751.

Contemporary full speckled fawn calf, spine in five raised bands gilt with decorative friezes and tooled in gilt compartments, headcap shaved, light rubbing to bands and spine, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, engraved bookplate mounted on the pastedown, gilt fillets to board edges, corners rubbed, red edges; contemporary binding.

Provenance: Jules Guérin (1801–1886), director of the Gazette médicale de Paris (stamp on title-page). – Doctor Félix Durosier (engraved bookplate).

Ink annotations to a flyleaf.