[Pharmacist's receipt books].

Abstract:

Two volumes of recipes for elixirs, tinctures, pills, syrups, purgatives, and potions. At the beginning of the first volume is a table of pharmaceutical symbols (pp. 1-5). At the end of the second volume (8pp. following p. 105) is a record of accounts for the years 1803-1805, documenting sales to a convent.

Date:

1750

Identifier:

9937701723503681; (OCoLC)ocn155927495; (OCoLC)155927495; (CStRLIN)PAUR05-B10030; (PU)3770172-penndb-Voyager

Language:

German; Latin

Provenance:

Purchased from Pickering & Chatto, 2004.

Publisher:

[Germany], [between 1750 and 1806]

Subject:

Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.; History.; Chemistry.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.; Chemistry -- History.; Pharmacology -- Early works to 1800.; Pharmacology.; Codices.; Accounts.; Manuscripts, European.; Prescriptions.; Recipes.; Manuscripts, German.; Formularies.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

2 volumes (93, 57 leaves) : paper; 331 x 209 mm and 323 x 194 mm both bound to 332 x 212 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in southern Germany [?], possibly Swabia or Bavaria, in the second half of the 18th century (bookseller's description).; Title supplied by cataloger based on bookseller's description.; Pagination: V.1: Paper, 93; 1-137, 137-187; V.2: Paper, 57; 1-104, [x]; contemporary or near-contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Layout: Written in two columns.; Binding: Calf-backed paste-paper boards with ties (bookseller's description).; Script: Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.; Ingredients in Latin, instructions in German.

Physical Location:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1003