Artzneybuch samt verschidenen Recepten zu allerley Confect und Sach

The receipts at the end are by different and later hands; two of them are in French. The original work ends at p. 206, with an index. It contains 441 numbered receipts. The three leaves before, and four leaves after the index, contain 'Die in Engelland neues inventionierten hafer Cur'. This was a kind of oatmeal drink.

1709

1 volume 206 pp. + 31 last bl.. 4to. 20 x 17 cm. Original quarter-vellum binding. The upper corners of the last 30 leaves are badly damaged by damp, and the last leaf is mutilated.

Purchased 1926.

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/234.

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).