Annals of medical history . enbeen allowed in the building. Now (1919)there are six sisters and six domestics;the sisters belong to the Order of the PoorHandmaidens of Jesus Christ. The Rectorof the Hospital is curator of the Libraryand Museum. The library is an integral part of thehospital, occupying a small room on thesecond floor. The approach is through darkcorridors of stone and up a winding pair ofstairs, dark, forbidding and steep, a truemedieval passage to a monastic-like treasureroom. The opening of a heavy door,unlocked with difficulty, discloses a neatroom lined with bookshelves and
Annals of medical history . enbeen allowed in the building. Now (1919)there are six sisters and six domestics;the sisters belong to the Order of the PoorHandmaidens of Jesus Christ. The Rectorof the Hospital is curator of the Libraryand Museum. The library is an integral part of thehospital, occupying a small room on thesecond floor. The approach is through darkcorridors of stone and up a winding pair ofstairs, dark, forbidding and steep, a truemedieval passage to a monastic-like treasureroom. The opening of a heavy door,unlocked with difficulty, discloses a neatroom lined with bookshelves and dimlylighted with leaded windows. Ancient tomesand many bound manuscripts fill the shelveswith some of the finest of them in a glass cabinet along one wall. All are well markedand catalogued, thanks to the untiringefforts of Professor Marx of Trier, whospent many hours going over each item,carefully describing the binding, paper, illu-minations, notes, etc. All his results are nowpublished in a splendid catalogue Library in the Hospital at Cues Great treasures are at hand in fifteenthcentury manuscripts besides many of theoriginals of the works of Cusanus, filledwith superb astronomical drawings andbeautiful illuminations. In the few minutesgiven to me, I could only turn some of thepages with admiration for the founder ofsuch a wonderful collection of books, manyof them so beautifully preserved for o\erfour hundred years. Such a library is afitting monument to a great figure in Library contains over three hundredmanuscripts, about eighty-five incunabulaand some fifty books published between1500 and 1550. The subjects are mainlytheological, although medicine and astrono-my are well represented. Many of the manu- 122 Annals oj Medical History scripts are beautifully bound in vellum orwritten on parchment heavily embellishedwith illuminated letters. Scattered through-out are notes in the Cardinals hand,especially in the books on astronomy, andmany of them c
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