Livre de la grande mareschalerie

Livre de la grande mareschalerie, et guérison des chevaux, avec les doses et compositions propres au dite art. Ensemble la manière de seigner selon les signes de la lune, comprenant en ce les moyens et facilitez de cognoistre les maladies tant intérieures qu' extérieures. [At the other end of the volume.] Collection of medical receipts for human ailments: in French throughout. Among the medical receipts is one dated 1640, and on a fly-leaf at the end is an account dated 1686. The MS. is written by several different hands.

Middle 17th century

1 volume 1 bl. l. + 3 ll. + 5 bl. ll. + 119 pp. + 8 bl. ll + 3 ll. + 31 bl. ll. + 32 ll. 4to. 201/2 X 15 cm. Original vellum binding.

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 1929.

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).