Details

Subjects:

Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Pharmacy -- Study and teaching -- Czech Republic -- Litoměřice.
Chemistry -- History.
Chemistry.
History.
Pharmacy -- Study and teaching.
Czech Republic -- Litoměřice.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Latin, with German interspersed in some places.

Summary:

Extensive pharmacopeia of a young apothecary, trained by Franz Alexander Hofer (see copy of letter on verso of last folio); he was born in 1735 according to a biographical entry (see inside back cover), and this collection of prescriptions may have been submitted in connection with his application for certification (see copy of his Epistola petitoria pro condition[e], f. 170v-171v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 2r).
Foliation: Paper, 171; [1-171]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Irregular contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, presumably that of the compiler, Franz Johann Tandler.
Binding: Contemporary boards with original calf spine and corners. Binding pulling apart, several quires nearly detached, some worm damage.
Origin: Written in Leitmeritz (Litomerice) in 1754 (title page, f. 2r).

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1972.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia, 1965). Supplement B. The Library Chronicle 45 (1981), pp. 5-29. p. 27 (Ms. E.F. Smith 63).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 525.

Contributor:

Hofer, Franz Alexander.

OCLC:

155964496

Access Restriction:

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