Traité de pharmacie

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1750

Description:

Treatise on pharmacology beginning with a general essay on the subject followed by pages of medical formulae organized by category, often with source attributions. An alphabetical index begins on the two pages immediately preceding the text and concludes on the two immediately following the text.

Language:

French

Provenance:

Sold by Robert H. Rubin Books, 2004.

Subject:

Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Pharmacology -- Early works to 1800; Pharmacology

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Formularies; Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

202 leaves : paper; 217 x 155 mm bound to 221 x 170 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from caption title (p. 1).; Pagination: Paper, i + 203 + ii; [ii], 1-47, 47-50, 50-400, [ii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Script: Written in a cursive script primarily by a single hand, with table of contents in a second hand (p. i-ii) and later notes in a third hand (flyleaf ii).; Binding: Contemporary French calf, spine gilt; covers are warped and hinges cracked at extremities.; Origin: Written in France in the mid-18th century.; French, with titles in Latin and occasional words in Greek.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 959