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

Title

Collectaneum medicamentorum tam simplicium, quam compositorum conscriptum

Authors

• Tandler, Franz Johann
• Hofer, Franz Alexander

Call number

Ms. Codex 525
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486456
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486456

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin, with German interspersed in some places

Origin

Date

1754

Place

Leitmeritz

Summary

Extensive pharmacopeia of a young apothecary, trained by Franz Alexander Hofer (see copy of letter on verso of last folio); he was born in 1735 according to a biographical entry (see inside back cover), and this collection of prescriptions may have been submitted in connection with his application for certification (see copy of his Epistola petitoria pro condition[e], f. 170v-171v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 2r).
   

Extent

171 leaves : 199 x 157 mm. bound to 204 x 165 mm

Foliation

Paper, 171; [1-171]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Irregular contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary boards with original calf spine and corners. Binding pulling apart, several quires nearly detached, some worm damage.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, presumably that of the compiler, Franz Johann Tandler.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1972.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• Pharmacy--Study and teaching--Czech Republic--Litoměřice
• Chemistry--History

Genres

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

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