Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Tractatus de formulis

Call number

Ms. Codex 518
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580977
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580977

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French and Latin

Origin

Date

circa 1766

Place

France?

Summary

First treatise in Latin consists of formulas for medical remedies including alteratives, purgatives, sudorifics, vermifuges, diuretics, emmenagogues, refrigerants, febrifuges, stomachics, emetics, emollients, astringents, etc. with an index to the formulas. Second treatise in French consists of alchemical operations and formulations, some of which also have medical applications.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title Tractatus de formulis from f. 3r. Title of the second treatise, Operations de chymie, is on f. 87r (p. 169). Note that this second title is incorrect in Zacour-Hirsch, Supplement A, which has "Observations de chymie."
   

Extent

130 leaves : 202 x 132 mm. bound to 210 x 140 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 130 + i (modern paper); 1-163, [164-260]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century[?] quarter parchment.

Script

Written in a cursive script in what appears to be a single hand, with the exception of four medical remedies on f. 120v, 121r-v. in a second hand. On f. 2r preceding the first page of the text is "Ad usum Steph. Bremond to philatro," and the date 1766.

Provenance

• Acquired, 1968.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry--History

Genres

• Codices
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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