Hansen

Oekonomische Anmerkungen. A collection of cookery, household, and medical receipts. Lettered on the spine 'Magic MS.' The first leaf of text is headed 'Dessau 1776'. The verso of the fourth unfoliated leaf is headed 'Liverpool 1787', and some of the entries on the recto of this leaf, and on following leaves are also in English-but all by the original hand. On the verso of fol. 1 are notes of Gerhard Hansen, S.J. who died in 1669, and on Leonhard Hansen, of the Dominican Order, Provincial of England who died in 1685. Below are three rough pen-drawn coats of arms. Produced in Dessau.

1776-1787

1 volume 102 ff. + 13 ll. (last 5 bl.). 8vo. 161/2 × 111/2 cm. Modern calf binding.

Purchased 1930.

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/204.

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).