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Title

Pharmacist's receipt books

Call number

Ms. Codex 1003
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3770172
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3770172

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Ingredients in Latin, instructions in German

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1806

Place

Germany

Summary

Two volumes of recipes for elixirs, tinctures, pills, syrups, purgatives, and potions. At the beginning of the first volume is a table of pharmaceutical symbols (pp. 1-5). At the end of the second volume (8pp. following p. 105) is a record of accounts for the years 1803-1805, documenting sales to a convent.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger based on bookseller's description.
   

Extent

2 v. (93, 57 leaves) : 331 x 209 mm. and 323 x 194 mm. both bound to 332 x 212 mm

Foliation

V.1: Paper, 93; 1-137, 137-187; V.2: Paper, 57; 1-104, [x]; contemporary or near-contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Calf-backed paste-paper boards with ties (bookseller's description).

Layout

Written in two columns.

Script

Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.

Provenance

• Purchased from Pickering & Chatto, 2004.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Formularies
• Prescriptions
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, German--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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