Receipt-Book, French: 18th century

Date:
c. 1700-1750
Reference:
MS.4075
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Receipt-Book, French: 18th century. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of 55 medical receipts, by various hands of the first half of the 18th cent.: mounted in a folio volume: in French.

Publication/Creation

c. 1700-1750

Physical description

1 volume 55 items. v.s. Original vellum binding, with two leather ties. The receipts are written on leaves of various shapes and sizes: a few are perhaps of the late 17th cent., but the collection seems to have been put together in the 18th cent.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1936.

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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  • 69695