Details

Other Title:

Recipe book

Subjects:

Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Materia medica -- France -- Early works to 1800.
Pharmacy -- France -- Early works to 1800.
Pharmacy.
Materia medica.
France.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Prescriptions.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin, with a few notes in French.

Summary:

Comprehensive materia medica with recipes for prescriptions, arranged in sections for purgatives, diuretics, emenagogues, emetics, diaphoretics, sudorifics, stomachics, febrifuges, and refrigerants.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
First leaf has been torn out, this may have been a title page. "Que vous etes bon" is inscribed on the two following leaves, no date or place [France? ca., 1690-1750] in manuscript.
Pagination: Paper, 125 leaves; [iv], 1-224, [225-246]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners; 1 leaf laid in between p. 54-55.
Script: Written in one cursive hand; final 15 leaves have notes and prescriptions in Latin and in French in a later hand.
Binding: Contemporary calf.
Origing: Possibly written in France in the 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bruce J. Ramer, 1997.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 636

OCLC:

155972472