Secreti utili e curiosi

Date:
Middle 17th century
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MS.739
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Secreti utili e curiosi. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A collection of miscellaneous technical and other receipts, 'secrets', etc., including a few for cosmetics. On the last leaf is a rough pen-drawing of a still.

Publication/Creation

Middle 17th century

Physical description

1 volume 2 ll. (first bl.). + 76 pp. + 7 ll. 4to. 201/2 x 151/2 cm. Original mottled calf binding.

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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 from Stevens, London, 13 May 1930.

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).

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  • 62832B