Seat of intellectual qualities

Scope and Content

Albertus Magnus, 1490, diagrams of the seat of intellectual qualities in the three ventricles. Annotations on the back read "Purser lecture. Jefferson, Descartes Fig.1" and "Neurological Dept: Manchester University Jan: 1946".

This image features in the publication, G. Jefferson, 'René Descartes on the localization of the soul', Irish Journal of Medical Science, 1949, 285, pp.691-706. The Purser lecture was delivered by Jefferson on 26 May 1949 at Trinity College, Dublin.

Brixiae Bapt. De Farfengo 1490. Hirnzellen-Schemata aus den Drucken der Philosophia naturalis des Albertus Magnus

Across the bottom.