Pferd-Arzt

Collection of veterinary receipts, etc.: in German. The section from the beginning to fol. 104 contains 75 full-page water colour drawings of bits, bridles, etc., a stable, illustrations of horse training, one of which (fol. 27) is folding: these are mostly signed 'F' and include a picture showing the administration of a medicine by means of a funnel (fol. 31), and another of blood-letting (fol. 29). The original compiler's work ends at fol. 281, and contains 1160 numbered receipts: it is followed by additions by several hands, inserted receipts, etc. On fol. 3 and on the fly-leaf at the beginning the name 'Von Kupperwolff' has been stamped.

Early 18th century

1 volume 372 ff. fol. 32 × 20 cm. Original quarter-calf binding. Ff. 1, 2, 5, 282, 371 are wanting. Ff. 105-136, 291-372 are blank.

Purchased 1911.

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).

Inside the upper cover is an armorial book-plate, not positively unidentified, but possibly that of the Mooyen Family of Harderwyck.