opusculum
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opuscula
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They bear the titles Medicinales Canones, Medical Canons, and De Genealogiis Humanis and there is besides an opusculum by him on the work of Isaac the well-known Jewish physician of the Middle Ages "On Fevers."
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh
What Marjorie Lindon could see in such an opusculum surpassed my comprehension; especially when there was a man of my sort walking about, who adored the very ground she trod upon.
From The Beetle by Richard Marsh
He had however already composed more than one work unrecognised, if we except the two opuscula "Critical and Historical Essay on Duel, with Relation to our Legislation and Morals," and a work on judicial practice.
From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson
It contains, indeed, eight different opuscula, all relating to cattle complaints, which scientific students may consult with real gratification.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon
But if prefaces are rarely sincere or just, they are, notwithstanding, literary opuscula in which the author is materially concerned.
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Isaac Disraeli
An improved edition of it, by Maderus, was printed at Helmstadt, in 1666, 4to., with other curious bibliographical opuscula.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Full of cuts 55 Thirteen different opuscula, at one florin each; many very curious and uncommon 13 The Lord's Prayer and Creed--in the German language--printed by "Fricz Crewsner," in 1472: folio: broadside.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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