Receipt-Book, Italian: 16th century

Date:
c. 1575
Reference:
MS.657
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Receipt-Book, Italian: 16th century. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of medical receipts: in Italian.

Publication/Creation

c. 1575

Physical description

1 volume 5 ll. + 66 ff. + 33 ll. 16mo. 11 x 71/2 cm. Original stamped morocco binding, with leather and metal clasp. Ff. 23-26, and some leaves at the beginning (before fol. 1) and at the end are missing: somewhat stained and thumbed throughout, the first leaf slightly defective.

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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 1921.

Notes

An inserted [book-seller's?] description assigns this MS. to the middle of the 16th cent., but a reference to Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria [1529-1595] on fol. 36, would seem to point to a later date.

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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  • 41251