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Title

Pharmacopeia (Arzneibuch)

Call number

Ms. Codex 127
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580543
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580543

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

German

Origin

Date

1683

Place

Germany

Summary

Medical miscellany, containing remedies and treatments for various diseases. The first section (f. 1r-92v) is a numbered collection of 300 remedies and treatments of various kinds: numbers 1-221 are arranged by diseases; 220-40 are potable remedies; 241-281 are salves; 282-300 are on miscellaneous matters; a table of contents (Register) in the same hand is at the end. The second section, containing 100 numbered remedies and treatments, is divided into two parts: Bewerte Mitl vor die Frauen (f. 97r-110v) and Unterschiedliche bewerte Mitl vor die Kinder (f. 111r-120v). There is text written on both front and back pastedowns.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Title in manuscript: Ein schen und gerechtes Artney [sic] Buech von Dreihundert Arznei Mitln (f. 1r); the title is evidently intended to be "Artzey Buech," i.e. Arzneibuch.
   

Extent

146 leaves : 200 x 152 (166 x 123) mm. bound to 202 x 170 mm

Foliation

Paper, 146; [1-146]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

17th-century German parchment over pasteboard with remnants of 2 pairs of green silk ties. Cover deteriorating, especially at spine, which is cracked and peeling away. Cover starting to pull away at inside back hinge. Some folios slightly stained. Final folio detached.

Script

Written in German cursive script by at least 2 hands (f. 1r-92v, 97r-120v), with additions in different hands between the 2 collections and at the end of the volume (f. 92v-96r, 121r-146v).

Provenance

• Purchased, 1964.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Prescriptions
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, German--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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