Braunegger, Ignaz Joseph Franz Xaver. fl. 1764.

Doctor of Medicine Diploma. [Incipit:] Nos Franciscus Joseph Lambertus Baader AA.LL. Philosophiæ, et Medicinae Doctor.

Freiburg im Breisgau, [4 July 1764].

4to (257 x 192 mm.). ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. [ii], 12, [2 blank]p. In a single calligraphic hand IN GOLD AND BLACK INKS WITH EVERY MAJUSCULE IN THE TEXT HIGHLIGHTED IN GOLD, first lines of intitulatio and text in larger display scripts, each page in ink rule borders surrounded by delicate penwork frames in gold and black inks, last page signed by Freiburg University notary and syndic Georg Joseph Ignaz Dreyer.

CONTEMPORARY WRAPPERS OF GILT AUGSBURG BROCADE PAPER (Johann Carl Munck no. 5; see below).

            This records Braunegger’s doctoral defense and graduation ceremony at Freiburg under the auspices of the Medical Faculty and of his supervisor, Franz Josua Lambert Baader (1723-73), ordinary of Medicine and Chemistry and director of the university’s botanical garden.
            On 20 June 1764, Braunegger was summoned to the city’s cathedral to discuss two points assigned to him twenty-four hours before. The first was practical: the case of a girl of phlegmatic temperament having her first menstruation at sixteen. The second was theoretical: a discussion of the pros and cons of different systems of bloodletting. At the ensuing graduation ceremony, which took place on 4 July, Braunegger received a doctoral robe and hood, a cap, a tiara, a necklace, a ring, two books, the academic kiss and a blessing.
            Decorated paper manufacturer J.C. Munck (1730-94) was “among the most important in Augsburg” (Kopylov, tr.). In excellent condition.
¶Raccolta Bertarelli. Carte decorate 1109; see Kopylov’s Papiers dorés d’Alllemagne p. 172.

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