Manuscript works by León Sánchez Quintanar

The "Biblioteca Médica Hispano-Lusitana" and "Biblioteca Quirúrgica Hispano Lusitana" manuscript works by León Sánchez Quintanar.

These two repertories consist of six manuscript volumes. Although the works are different, with the first covering Hispano-Luso physicians in general and the second just surgeons, since their internal structure is similar we thought that it would be appropriate to study them together.

When Sánchez Quintanar began his compilation, whilst still a pupil at the San Carlos School in Madrid and under the guidance of his teachers Mosácula and Hernández Morejón, his idea was to create a repertory of biobibliographies of Hispano-Luso physicians and surgeons.

The materials he gathered rather haphazardly for thirty years, must have been organised after the publication of the works of Chinchilla and Morejón, since all the letters are preceded by a list of authors not mentioned by said authors but which he included.

We believe these repertories to be of great value for scholars of the history of medicine of the Iberian Peninsula, because some include notary documents, study certificates, birth certificates, wills, autograph letters, etc, whose original archives may have disappeared during the mishaps suffered by said historical sources during the century since they were written.