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Title

Miscellaneum pharmaceuticum

Other related names

• Arata, Mario Pedro, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 527
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486479
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486479

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian, with beginning of text in Latin (f. 1r-2r)

Origin

Date

circa 1700

Place

Italy

Summary

Manual for the examination to become an apothecary, to be administered by a physician. Text begins in Latin, continues as a translation into Italian on f. 2r. Some of the manual is in question-and-answer form, the rest in lists or short summaries. Topics covered include professional ethics and conduct ("an apothecary should have a wife, to rein in his youth"), the identification of herbs, and techniques for their preparation and storage.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from upper cover.
   

Extent

30 leaves : 212 x 154 (180 x 126) mm. bound to 224 x 165 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 30 + i (contemporary paper); [1-30]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment, with title and number 1556 on spine.

Layout

Written in 26 long lines; ruled in lead and drypoint; prickings visible.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Former owners include: Mario Pedro Arata (signature and stamp, inside upper cover) and Libraria Loescher & Co., Roma (bookseller's label, inside upper cover).
   
• Purchased, 1974.
   

Subjects topical

• Pharmacists--Italy
• Pharmacy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
• Materia medica
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Genres

• Codices
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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