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

Title

Traité de pharmacie

Call number

Ms. Codex 959
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3593627
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3593627

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French, with titles in Latin and occasional words in Greek

Origin

Date

circa 1750

Place

France

Summary

Treatise on pharmacology beginning with a general essay on the subject followed by pages of medical formulae organized by category, often with source attributions. An alphabetical index begins on the two pages immediately preceding the text and concludes on the two immediately following the text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (p. 1).
   

Extent

202 leaves : 217 x 155 mm. bound to 221 x 170 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 203 + ii; [ii], 1-47, 47-50, 50-400, [ii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary French calf, spine gilt; covers are warped and hinges cracked at extremities.

Script

Written in a cursive script primarily by a single hand, with table of contents in a second hand (p. i-ii) and later notes in a third hand (flyleaf ii).

Provenance

• Sold by Robert H. Rubin Books, 2004.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Formularies
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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