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Haymayer (& others). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Haymayer (& others)
- Haymayer
- Date:
- c. 1760
- Reference:
- MS.2799
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
About this work
Description
Collection of medical receipts & formulae, technical receipts, chemical processes, etc., by several hands.
The text is mainly in German, but there are entries in English, Latin, and French.
Extra-illustrated with 12 engraved plates (5 folding) of furnaces, chemical apparatus, etc., from an unidentified work on industrial chemistry in German, and with 5 inserted red chalk drawings of tobacco-mills. A large part of the volume is written in double column.
There are numerous inserted receipts, advertisements of medicines, and newspaper cuttings.
On pp. 108-112 are specimens of pharmacy-seals in red and black wax, under the heading 'Compositiones alle Sorten Siegel-Lacc die solten in Franckfurth fabriciret werden'.
On pp. 56-65, 114-117 there are a number of remedies containing tobacco, as well as receipts for various kinds of tobacco, 'die solchen in Franckfurth fabriciret werden'.
Haymayer's name appears at the top of p. 1, and a large number of entries appear to be by his hand: on p. 187 is the date 1761.
The receipts on pp. 1-26 are by an earlier hand, perhaps that of Haymayer's father.
Probably produced in Frankfurt.
Publication/Creation
c. 1760
Physical description
1 volume 2 ll. + 256 pp. + 26 ll. 4to. 18 × 151/2 cm. Original boards. A piece has been cut out of the lower corner of the first leaf. A number of leaves in the middle of the volume are foxed.
Contributors
Acquisition note
Purchased 1916.
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).
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 39303