Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Formularies.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French, with titles in Latin and occasional words in Greek.

Summary:

Treatise on pharmacology beginning with a general essay on the subject followed by pages of medical formulae organized by category, often with source attributions. An alphabetical index begins on the two pages immediately preceding the text and concludes on the two immediately following the text.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (p. 1).
Pagination: Paper, i + 203 + ii; [ii], 1-47, 47-50, 50-400, [ii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script primarily by a single hand, with table of contents in a second hand (p. i-ii) and later notes in a third hand (flyleaf ii).
Binding: Contemporary French calf, spine gilt; covers are warped and hinges cracked at extremities.
Origin: Written in France in the mid-18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Robert H. Rubin Books, 2004.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 959

OCLC:

155925637