Collectaneum medicamentorum tam simplicium, quam compositorum conscriptum

Name:

Tandler, Franz Johann; Hofer, Franz Alexander

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1754

Description:

Extensive pharmacopeia of a young apothecary, trained by Franz Alexander Hofer (see copy of letter on verso of last folio); he was born in 1735 according to a biographical entry (see inside back cover), and this collection of prescriptions may have been submitted in connection with his application for certification (see copy of his Epistola petitoria pro condition[e], f. 170v-171v).

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Purchased, 1972.

Subject:

Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Pharmacy -- Study and teaching -- Czech Republic -- Litoměřice; Chemistry -- History; Chemistry; History; Pharmacy -- Study and teaching

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Prescriptions; Recipes; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

171 leaves : paper; 199 x 157 mm bound to 204 x 165 mm

Geographic Subject:

Czech Republic -- Litoměřice

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 2r).; Foliation: Paper, 171; [1-171]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Irregular contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, presumably that of the compiler, Franz Johann Tandler.; Binding: Contemporary boards with original calf spine and corners. Binding pulling apart, several quires nearly detached, some worm damage.; Origin: Written in Leitmeritz (Litomerice) in 1754 (title page, f. 2r).; Latin, with German interspersed in some places.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 525