Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Ingredients in Latin, instructions in German.

Summary:

Two volumes of recipes for elixirs, tinctures, pills, syrups, purgatives, and potions. At the beginning of the first volume is a table of pharmaceutical symbols (pp. 1-5). At the end of the second volume (8pp. following p. 105) is a record of accounts for the years 1803-1805, documenting sales to a convent.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger based on bookseller's description.
Pagination: V.1: Paper, 93; 1-137, 137-187; V.2: Paper, 57; 1-104, [x]; contemporary or near-contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in two columns.
Script: Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.
Binding: Calf-backed paste-paper boards with ties (bookseller's description).
Origin: Written in southern Germany [?], possibly Swabia or Bavaria, in the second half of the 18th century (bookseller's description).

Penn Provenance:

Purchased from Pickering & Chatto, 2004.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1003.

OCLC:

155927495

Access Restriction:

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