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

Title

Materia medica

Call number

Ms. Codex 752
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2487581
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487581

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English, with a few recipes in Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1748-1749

Place

England

Summary

Compendium of medical recipes and treatments, with many notes on dosage for children and infants. Includes emetics, purgatives, carminatives, stomachics, febrifuges, emollients, diuretics, emmenagogues, elixirs, etc. Incomplete table of contents (f. 1r-2v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

212 leaves : 136 x 95 mm. bound to 134 x 92 mm

Foliation

Paper, 212; [1-212]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary leather with later paper wrapper pasted to upper cover. Leather is badly deteriorated particularly on the spine. Paper wrapper is brittle and disintegrating also particularly on the spine. Leaves were trimmed unevenly at the top resulting in the loss of text, particularly in the second half of the manuscript. First few leaves are very fragile due to damage from tears and tape residue.

Script

Written primarily in one hand, perhaps with additions in other hands, on different types of paper, probably in England.

Provenance

• Sold by Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts, 1998.
   

Subjects topical

• Pharmacy--England--18th century
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Table of contents, f. 1r