Romer, J.

Appoteca. A collection of receipts and remedies in alphabetical order with many blank leaves. The leaves at the beginning contain notes on medical weights and measures, definitions of pharmaceutical terms, some in mnemonic verses. There are further verses of the same kind on the two penultimate leaves. A few receipts are in German, but the text is mainly in Latin throughout. L1. 219-241 contain an incomplete list-A to L-of medicines, etc. headed 'In appoteca talia habemus'. On the title is inscribed 'Wer wil seyn ane leydth / Der sage niemandt seyne heymligkeytt'. Below this 'I. Romer' and under this in red, 'Anno domini 1536'. Beneath this a pen-drawn scroll decoration, and a shield containing (in red) the letters I.R. and a device. On verso of the last leaf, and in a few other places in the text are receipts by the same hand as that of the anonymous writer in MS. 266 [FABRI]. Between fol. 86 and fol. 87, and between fol. 139 and fol. 140 are two inserted slips of smaller format bound in, containing medical receipts by contemporary hands. The first of these is endorsed 'Descriptio pillularum Caspari Fensels [?] anno 1538 adi 10 Februarii'. Ff. 20-27 contain a set of 18 numbered receipts, headed: 'Cura febris pestilencialis A.D.A.K. 1535'.

1536

1 volume 245 ll. (last bl.). 4to. 201/2 x 161/2 cm. 18th cent. vellum binding.

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Purchased 1931.

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).

Engraved armorial Ex-libris of Christian Ernst, Graf zu Stolberg [1691-1771], dated 1721.