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Title

Petit livre contenant plusieurs compositions comme onguents, beaumes, siropts, eaux et autres.

Authors

• Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Call number

Ms. Codex 2082
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978155205603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1347059095
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366281

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

French

Origin

Date

1748-1778

Place

Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Summary

Collection of medical recipes for ointments, powders, pills, syrups, and plasters of various colors. Treatments include remedies for gout and ailments of the eyes, stomach, and teeth. A few recipes include information about their sources, such as two recipes attributed to "L'Emery" (probably Louis Lemery, 1677-1743, p. 11-13); a remedy for the plague dated to 1627 (p. 16); one for gout attributed to a letter of Monsieur de Magnac (p. 21); and a hyacinth confection from the Pharmacopée de Lyon (published in 1778, p. 74). A partly alphabetical index is arranged by first letter but then by order within the book (p. 99-104). There are no entries for letters between E and M, but this seems to be intentional, as there is no break between the last entry for E and the beginning of the M section. Two burn remedies are written in a markedly different hand on a flyleaf after the index (p. i).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. 1).
   

Extent

54 leaves : 172 x 132 (150 x 100) mm bound to 180 x 140 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 52 + ii leaves; early pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right corner, [i-iv, 1], 2-97, [98-104, i-iv]. Trimmed page numbers supplemented with pagination in pencil. After two gatherings of 8 leaves, the rest of the collation cannot be determined.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) calf, gilt spine, marbled pastedowns and endpapers (Cadogan); some cracking to joints and loss to spine at foot.

Layout

Written in 14-15 long lines; vertical margins formed by folding; quarto format.

Script

Written in cursive script.by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Offered for sale by Antiquariaat Marc Van de Wiele (Brugge, Belgium), catalog for the Antiquarenbeurs Mechelen 2012, no. 41.
   
• Sold by Leo Cadogan Rare Books (London), 2022.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• prescriptions
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Recipe book
• 18th century
• French
• France
• Paper
• Science -- Medicine

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Table of contents

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