Ryff, Walter Hermann

Confect-Buch und Haus-Apothek. 1544. The colophon (fol. 179v) reads 'Eind des Teutschen Appothekh für den / gemainen man gestellet durch Gu / alterum Rifium Argentinensem / Medicum'.

Late 16th century

1 volume 179 ff. + 1 bl. l. 4to. 21 x 16 cm. Original vellum binding from leaves of a 13th cent. Service book, with a large ornamental initial in blue and red, somewhat rubbed; other capitals, etc. in red. The first 2 leaves of the MS. are wanting, but it is a copy of the first edition of the 'Confect-Buch' published in Frankfort in 1544.

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 1910.

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).