Details

Other Title:

De instrumentis medicis.

Subjects:

Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Pharmacy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Pharmacy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Pharmacopoeias.
Prescriptions.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.
Handbooks and manuals.

Language:

French and Latin.

Summary:

French pharmacological text, arranged alphabetically by means of medication (such as injections, powders, and unguents), followed by a Latin pharmacological text arranged by parts of the body to be treated. Each text followed by a table of contents.

Contents:

1. p.1-245: Des medicaments, alterants et preparants.
2. p.1-114: De instrumentis medicis.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Titles from caption headings on first page of each work.
Pagination: Paper ii (contemporary paper) + 179 + ii (contemporary paper); 1-140, 142-233, [234-245], 1-110, [111-114]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Binding: Contemporary mottled sheep (Hunter).
Origin: Written in France, ca. 1650 (Hunter).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Andrew Hunter Rare Books (London), bulletin 9 (March 2005), no. 3.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1026

OCLC:

155928419