Schensteiner, Michael

Ein gutt Khunst undt Artzney Buch von allerley Khranckheiten undt Schmertzen...Ausswendig undt Ihnwendlig dess Leibs...von wiederschiedliche Hern Doctor [sic] geschrieben... As the original pagination is irregular, a new foliation in pencil has been added. The first leaf and some headings, etc. written in red ink. Ff. 86-119 contain receipts by a different and later 17th cent. hand, and include some incantations. There are also some charms among the receipts on ff. 119v-129 written in an early 18th cent. script. Produced in Amberg.

1643

1 volume 131 [132] ll. 4to. 221/2 x 161/2 cm. Original stamped calf binding: the upper cover with the sacred monogram IHS and a Cross, the lower cover with an oval decoration. A leaf cut out at the beginning, and probably two leaves of the Index wanting at the end. Outer upper corners stained up to about fol. 85.

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 1930.

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).