[Latin-German medical recipe book].

Abstract:

Collection of approximately 500 recipes, mostly in Latin, for medical remedies in many forms (essences, balsams, powders, pills, plasters, elixirs, waters, tinctures, creams, syrups, wines, and cordials) for many ailments (eyes, teeth, epilepsy, headache, plague, stomach, menstrual). Many remedies have attributions to physicians (including Oswald Croll (circa 1563-1609, f. 141v), Isaac Habrecht II (1589-1633, f. 39r), Abraham Sandeck (f. 9r), Melchior Sebisch (f. 19v), and Johann Zwelfer (1618-1688, f. 189r)) or places (London, Paris, Strasbourg, Vienna, Wrocław (in manuscript as Wratislavia)). A tabbed alphabetical index at the end of the volume (f. 237r-255r) was continued by at least one additional hand, perhaps the same reader who extended the foliation after f. 155.

Date:

1659

Description:

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

Identifier:

9977137625103681; (OCoLC)on1379016682; (OCoLC)1379016682; (PUVoyagerBIBID)9977137625103681

Language:

Latin; German

Provenance:

Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Hanworth, England), 2017.

Publisher:

[Germany?], [after 1659]

Relation:

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

Subject:

Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.; codices (bound manuscripts); prescriptions.; Manuscripts, Latin -- 17th century.; Manuscripts, German -- 17th century.; Manuscripts, European.

Resource Type:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

257 leaves : paper; 185 x 80 mm bound to 185 x 85 mm.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Latin, with some German remedies and notes.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: Paper, 257; 1¹⁴⁻²(pastedown and another leaf lacking in the first half) 2⁸ 3-12¹⁶ 13¹⁶⁻¹(-5) 14-16¹⁶ 17¹⁶⁻²(pastedown and another leaf lacking in the second half); [i], 1-2, 4-9, [i], 10-54, 56-184, 186-191, [192-195], 196-197, [198], 199-201, [202], 203, [204], 205-218, [219], 220, [221-258]; original and early foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; missing numbers in foliation are errors except for 185, which is torn out.; Layout: Horizontal and outer bounding lines ruled in faint red ink; agenda octavo format.; Script: Written in Latin cursive and German cursive scripts, possibly by multiple hands (for example, possible changes of hand at f. 29v, 112v).; Decoration: Faces added to initial O letters (f. 41v, 51r); original foliation (f. 1-155) and bounding lines in red ink.; Binding: Contemporary (17th-century) parchment, blind tooled.; Origin: Probably written in Germany, after 1659 (f. 219r).

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 2116

Collection:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.