Petit livre contenant plusieurs compositions comme onguents, beaumes, siropts, eaux et autres.

Abstract:

Collection of medical recipes for ointments, powders, pills, syrups, and plasters of various colors. Treatments include remedies for gout and ailments of the eyes, stomach, and teeth. A few recipes include information about their sources, such as two recipes attributed to "L'Emery" (probably Louis Lemery, 1677-1743, p. 11-13); a remedy for the plague dated to 1627 (p. 16); one for gout attributed to a letter of Monsieur de Magnac (p. 21); and a hyacinth confection from the Pharmacopée de Lyon (published in 1778, p. 74). A partly alphabetical index is arranged by first letter but then by order within the book (p. 99-104). There are no entries for letters between E and M, but this seems to be intentional, as there is no break between the last entry for E and the beginning of the M section. Two burn remedies are written in a markedly different hand on a flyleaf after the index (p. i).

Date:

1748

Description:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Identifier:

9978155205603681; (OCoLC)on1347059095; (OCoLC)1347059095

Language:

French

Provenance:

Offered for sale by Antiquariaat Marc Van de Wiele (Brugge, Belgium), catalog for the Antiquarenbeurs Mechelen 2012, no. 41.; Sold by Leo Cadogan Rare Books (London), 2022.

Publisher:

Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1748[-1778]

Relation:

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366281

Subject:

Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.; codices (bound manuscripts); prescriptions.; Recipes.; Manuscripts, French -- 18th century.; Manuscripts, European.

Resource Type:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

54 leaves : paper; 172 x 132 (150 x 100) mm bound to 180 x 140 mm.

Corporate Name:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Ms. codex.; French; Title from title page (p. 1).; Pagination: Paper, ii + 52 + ii leaves; early pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right corner, [i-iv, 1], 2-97, [98-104, i-iv]. Trimmed page numbers supplemented with pagination in pencil. After two gatherings of 8 leaves, the rest of the collation cannot be determined.; Layout: Written in 14-15 long lines; vertical margins formed by folding; quarto format.; Script: Written in cursive script.by multiple hands.; Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) calf, gilt spine, marbled pastedowns and endpapers (Cadogan); some cracking to joints and loss to spine at foot.; Origin: Written in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, beginning in 1748 (title page, p. 1) and continuing through at least 1778 (publication date of the Pharmacopée de Lyon, p. 74).

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 2082

Collection:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.