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Title

Latin-German medical recipe book.

Call number

Ms. Codex 2116
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977137625103681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1379016682
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366281

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with some German remedies and notes

Origin

Date

after 1659

Place

Germany?

Summary

Collection of approximately 500 recipes, mostly in Latin, for medical remedies in many forms (essences, balsams, powders, pills, plasters, elixirs, waters, tinctures, creams, syrups, wines, and cordials) for many ailments (eyes, teeth, epilepsy, headache, plague, stomach, menstrual). Many remedies have attributions to physicians (including Oswald Croll (circa 1563-1609, f. 141v), Isaac Habrecht II (1589-1633, f. 39r), Abraham Sandeck (f. 9r), Melchior Sebisch (f. 19v), and Johann Zwelfer (1618-1688, f. 189r)) or places (London, Paris, Strasbourg, Vienna, Wrocław (in manuscript as Wratislavia)). A tabbed alphabetical index at the end of the volume (f. 237r-255r) was continued by at least one additional hand, perhaps the same reader who extended the foliation after f. 155.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

257 leaves : 185 x 80 mm bound to 185 x 85 mm

Collation

Paper, 257; 1¹⁴⁻²(pastedown and another leaf lacking in the first half) 2⁸ 3-12¹⁶ 13¹⁶⁻¹(-5) 14-16¹⁶ 17¹⁶⁻²(pastedown and another leaf lacking in the second half); [i], 1-2, 4-9, [i], 10-54, 56-184, 186-191, [192-195], 196-197, [198], 199-201, [202], 203, [204], 205-218, [219], 220, [221-258]; original and early foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; missing numbers in foliation are errors except for 185, which is torn out.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (17th-century) parchment, blind tooled.

Layout

Horizontal and outer bounding lines ruled in faint red ink; agenda octavo format.

Script

Written in Latin cursive and German cursive scripts, possibly by multiple hands (for example, possible changes of hand at f. 29v, 112v).

Provenance

• Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Hanworth, England), 2017.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• prescriptions
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, German--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Recipe book
• 17th century
• German
• Germany
• Paper
• Science -- Medicine

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Latin-German medical recipe book]