Juvenalis

Recepta perfecta Elixiris vitae secundum Magistrum Juvenalem. With other receipts: in Latin, a few in Italian. Written in a neat humanistic hand, a heading and a few paragraph marks, etc. in red. Fol. 1 Elisir vite secundum ueram experientiam. // (col. 1) Recipe Gariofilorum / Nucis muscate / ... 6 Dieta est vt cibaria et potus sint bone substantie et paucarum / superfluitatum sicut in Q uartana. FINIS. // Hec est Recepta perfecta Eelexiris [sic] uitae secundum / ordinem et Consuetudinem Magistri Iuuenalis. 6v (red) Recetta da fare Lolio de scorpione. / Primo. Toli olio uechio...$8 [Modo per far la lisia] ... per trare lo Azuro dal pastillo, e cusi per tutta lopera. // FINIS // LAUS // DEO // ET // BVM. / 8v [By another hand.] Contra dolori de fianchi. // Recipe florum camamila...

Late 15th century

1 volume 8 ll. 8vo. 21 x 141/2 cm. On vellum, unbound. Inner margins slightly frayed.

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

Purchased 1910.

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).