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

Title

Materia medica

Call number

Ms. Codex 636
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2363199
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2363199

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin, with a few notes in French

Origin

Date

17--

Place

France?

Summary

Comprehensive materia medica with recipes for prescriptions, arranged in sections for purgatives, diuretics, emenagogues, emetics, diaphoretics, sudorifics, stomachics, febrifuges, and refrigerants.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• First leaf has been torn out, this may have been a title page. "Que vous etes bon" is inscribed on the two following leaves, no date or place [France? ca., 1690-1750] in manuscript.
   
• Origing: Possibly written in France in the 18th century.
   

Extent

125 leaves : 224 x 164 (185 x 131) mm. bound to 234 x 175 mm

Foliation

Paper, 125 leaves; [iv], 1-224, [225-246]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners; 1 leaf laid in between p. 54-55.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf.

Script

Written in one cursive hand; final 15 leaves have notes and prescriptions in Latin and in French in a later hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Bruce J. Ramer, 1997.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• Materia medica--France--Early works to 1800
• Pharmacy--France--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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