Details

Other Title:

Schen und gerechtes Artney [sic] Buech von Dreihundert Arznei Mitln.
Arzneibuch.

Subjects:

Chemistry -- History.
Chemistry.
History.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Pharmacology -- Early works to 1800.
Pharmacology.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Prescriptions.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

German.

Summary:

Medical miscellany, containing remedies and treatments for various diseases. The first section (f. 1r-92v) is a numbered collection of 300 remedies and treatments of various kinds: numbers 1-221 are arranged by diseases; 220-40 are potable remedies; 241-281 are salves; 282-300 are on miscellaneous matters; a table of contents (Register) in the same hand is at the end. The second section, containing 100 numbered remedies and treatments, is divided into two parts: Bewerte Mitl vor die Frauen (f. 97r-110v) and Unterschiedliche bewerte Mitl vor die Kinder (f. 111r-120v). There is text written on both front and back pastedowns.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Title in manuscript: Ein schen und gerechtes Artney [sic] Buech von Dreihundert Arznei Mitln (f. 1r); the title is evidently intended to be "Artzey Buech," i.e. Arzneibuch.
Foliation: Paper, 146; [1-146]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in German cursive script by at least 2 hands (f. 1r-92v, 97r-120v), with additions in different hands between the 2 collections and at the end of the volume (f. 92v-96r, 121r-146v).
Binding: 17th-century German parchment over pasteboard with remnants of 2 pairs of green silk ties. Cover deteriorating, especially at spine, which is cracked and peeling away. Cover starting to pull away at inside back hinge. Some folios slightly stained. Final folio detached.
Origin: Written in Germany in 1683 (f. 1r, 97r).

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1964.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 : Supplement A (5). Library Chronicle 37 (1971), p. 102 (Ms. E. F. Smith 44).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 127

Contains:

Bewerte Mitl vor die Frauen.
Unterschiedliche bewerte Mitl vor die Kinder.

OCLC:

155962616