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Dutch & Flemish Receipt-Books, 16th century. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Dutch & Flemish Receipt-Books, 16th century
- Date:
- c. 1575
- Reference:
- MS.640
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About this work
Description
Collection of medical receipts in Flemish: with a number of philosophical aphorisms in Latin, and extracts from Rabelais in French.
By several hands.
The date 1580 appears on the verso of the fourth leaf from the end.
The extracts from Rabelais, or from writings attributed to him, are as under:
Fol. 2, 1.15-Fol. 3, 1.22 Pantagruel. Book IV, cap. 67. The first paragraph is wanting.
Fol.3, 1.34-Fol. 5v, 1.19 Pantagruel. Book IV, cap. 7 [or 16].
Fol.5v, 1.20-Fol. 6, 1.27 Pantagruel. Book IV, cap. 47. The first two paragraphs are wanting.
Fol.6, 1.28-Fol. 7v, 1.4 Epistre limosine.
Fol.7v, 1.5-Fol. 8, 1.6 La cresme philosophale.
The last two items are almost certainly not by Rabelais.
The Chapter-numbers, etc. in the above note are from S. Putnam's All the extant works of François Rabelais, 3 vols. P.P. New York, 1929.
Publication/Creation
c. 1575
Physical description
1 volume 32 ll. folio. 251/2 x 161/2 cm. Modern half vellum binding.
Arrangement
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 1923.
Notes
An inserted note - now lost - describes this MS. as 'Volume renfermant un grand nombre de recettes de médecine et autres. Manuscrit du XVIe siçle, vente De Vigne-Quyo, Gand 1877' (i.e. Pierre Vigne [1812-1877], Belgian sculptor).
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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Identifiers
Accession number
- 42814