Receptes aux maladies

RECEPTES aux maladies. A collection of medical, cosmetic, veterinary, cookery, and other receipts, by several hands: in French. There are two early foliations, one in Roman, the other in Arabic figures, both of which seem to be irregular: and one section iiiixx-C21 is misbound at the end. A new foliation in pencil has been made from which it appears that leaves are wanting after ff. 78, 121, 133, 135, 154, 161, 164. Ff. 3, 4 contain an index to the leaves originally foliated in Roman numerals. In the upper margin of the first leaf is a faded inscription 'Bibliotte[ca] [?] Sancti Andreae in Nemure [sic]. Fol. 7 contains a rough circular pen-drawing of the Elements, etc. Ff. 7v, 8 contain number tables, the latter dated 1548. In the lower margin of fol. 9 the name 'Blendecque' in a 16th cent. hand. On fol. 139: 'Monsieur Monsieur Le Réuérend Prélat de l'abbaye de St. André au Bois [?] présentemen[t] réfugié à Hesdin. Audict lieu.' by a middle 16th cent. hand.

c. 1500-1550

1 volume 164 ll. 4to. 201/2 x 141/2 cm. Modern vellum binding. Some leaves slightly stained, margins and corners damaged.

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 1928.

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).

Pasted inside the upper cover is the armorial book-plate of E[dmond] Révérend du Mesnil.