Manuscripta de medicamentis

Mainly written by one hand, but some entries are in a second contemporary script. Interlinear additions or corrections in red as far as fol. 65. The title given above is taken from the title on the spine. The work consists of remedies for various diseases, mostly taken from the vegetable materia medica.

1535

1 volume 191 ff. folio. 32 x 22 cm. Original stamped calf binding, worn. Some leaves wanting at the end after letter M of the Index, fol. 166 torn out.

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 1930.

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).

On the first leaf is the date 1535, and in a considerably later 16th century. hand 'Ex libris Petri Francisci Sokolt Medici'.