Receptes pour diverses maladies

Date:
Middle 17th century
Reference:
MS.672
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Receptes pour diverses maladies. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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RECEPTES pour diverses maladies. P. 111 has been dropped in the pagination. Written in a neat upright script: from references to places in Liège (p. 69), Hainaut (p. 69), Brussels (p. 96, p. 244), Antwerp (p. 244), the original MS. seems to have been written in Belgium, possibly by a lady as there are sections 'Des maladies des femmes (pp. 206-228) and 'De l'embellissement' (pp. 232-243).

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Middle 17th century

Physical description

1 volume 264 pp. + 3 ll. 8vo. 20 x 131/2 cm. Modern half calf binding. A title-page has been cut out.

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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1921.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Ownership note

Several blank leaves and odd spaces in the original work have been used for medical prescriptions in French by an unnamed later compiler, about 1752, as that date occurs on p. 116 and on p. 264.

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  • 40989