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Darrera modificació: 2018-11-30
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Deynman, Thomas, "Doctor Deynman (D. 1500/01) and his books", dins: Incunabula - Manuscripts, 2018, publ. electrònica.
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- For those not acquainted with Doctor Deynman, below are my introductory comments to the blog posting (although one has to go to the blog to see the portrait of him holding a urine flask): We likely know more about Thomas Deynman, M.D. (d. 1500-01) than we do about other physicians active during the reign of Henry VII. He was admitted to Peterhouse as a Fellow in 1473, and was Doctor of Medicine by 1485-86. He was nominated by the Fellows to be Master of Peterhouse in November 1500 but had died by 17 March 1501, possibly before he could assume office. He died in Cambridge and was buried there. This painting of him survives at the College. Accounts of his attendance on the King?s mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509) survive, as do records of the generous rewards he received from the monarch in 1494, which included his appointment as Master of the London hospital Saint Mary, Bethlehem. Deynman?s will survives in Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Sede Vacante Register CCA-DCc/Register F, f. 25r-v (dated 12 July 1500, proved 17 March 1501). In it, Deynman requested burial at Saint Mary, Bethlehem and made generous bequests to the hospital along with gifts to Peterhouse and to various kin. Deynmans will also specified that twenty of his better books (volumina meliora) should go to Peterhouse. While the books are not identified in his will, they must have included eight manuscripts belonging to him now in the Peterhouse collection, as well as University Library manuscript MS Ff.2.37 (Gilbertus Anglicus, Compendium Medicina containing Deynman?s usual signature on the last leaf, f. 189v). I suggest below that certainly one and probably a second Peterhouse incunable containing inscriptions similar to those in his manuscripts may also have come to the College through his bequest.
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