Miscel[l]aneum pharmaceuticum

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1700

Description:

Manual for the examination to become an apothecary, to be administered by a physician. Text begins in Latin, continues as a translation into Italian on f. 2r. Some of the manual is in question-and-answer form, the rest in lists or short summaries. Topics covered include professional ethics and conduct ("an apothecary should have a wife, to rein in his youth"), the identification of herbs, and techniques for their preparation and storage.

Language:

Italian; Latin

Provenance:

Bookseller's label: Libreria Loescher & Co., (W. Regenberg), Roma - Due Magelli, 88 (inside upper cover).; Formerly owned by Mario Pedro Arata (Buenos Aires, 1891-1946; signature, inside upper cover; stamp, inside upper cover, f. 1r).; Sold by Richard von Hünersdorff (London), catalog 3 (History of Medicine and Science, 1974), number 202.; Arata, Mario Pedro, 1891-1946, former owner.

Subject:

Pharmacists -- Italy; Pharmacy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800; Materia medica; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Pharmacy; Pharmacists

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); recipes; Manuscripts, European; Handbooks and manuals

Physical Description:

30 leaves : paper; 212 x 154 (180 x 126) mm bound to 224 x 165 mm

Geographic Subject:

Italy

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r: Prima particula est de utilibus interrogationibus ad aromatarios fiendis. -- 2. f.1r-2r: Secundo: Medicus in hac arte interroget qualis debet esse aromatarius. -- 3. f.2r-3v: Particola del saladino volgare. -- 4. f.3v-8v: Essame sopra li quattro canoni di mesue ... decottione, lavatione, infusione, e trituratione. -- 5. f.8v-9r: Del cuocere. -- 6. f.9v-10r: Del distillare. -- 7. f.10r-11r: Del preparare. -- 8. f.11r-12v: Delli elettuarii. -- 9. f.13r-24r: Essame sopra alcuni semplici [in alphabetical order from absinthio to viole]. -- 10. f.24v-25v: Elettione di medicamenti diversi. -- 11. f.26r-28v: Medicine falsificate come si conoscano, et con che arte si falsificano. -- 12. f.29r-29v: Lists of medicinal plants. -- 13. f.30r: Preparacione del sangue humano.; Title from upper cover.; Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 30 + i (contemporary paper); [1-30]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 26 long lines; ruled in lead and drypoint; prickings visible.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.; Decoration: Rubricated headings in red ink, with green, pink, and blue ink for underlining.; Binding: Contemporary parchment, with title and number 1556 on spine.; Origin: Written in Italy, circa 1700 (according to Rudolf Hirsch notes on file in Library). Date 1760 is written on parchment inside upper cover.; Italian, with beginning of text in Latin (f. 1r-2r).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 527