[Materia medica].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Pharmacy--England--18th century.

Pharmacy.

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

England.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

recipes

Manuscripts, English.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts, 1998.

Physical Description:

212 leaves : paper ; 136 x 95 mm bound to 134 x 92 mm

Place of Publication:

[England], [1748-1749?]

Language Note:

English, with a few recipes in Latin.

Summary:

Compendium of medical recipes and treatments, with many notes on dosage for children and infants. Includes emetics, purgatives, carminatives, stomachics, febrifuges, emollients, diuretics, emmenagogues, elixirs, etc. Incomplete table of contents (f. 1r-2v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 212; [1-212]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Script: Written primarily in one hand, perhaps with additions in other hands, on different types of paper, probably in England.

Binding: Contemporary leather with later paper wrapper pasted to upper cover. Leather is badly deteriorated particularly on the spine. Paper wrapper is brittle and disintegrating also particularly on the spine. Leaves were trimmed unevenly at the top resulting in the loss of text, particularly in the second half of the manuscript. First few leaves are very fragile due to damage from tears and tape residue.

Origin: Probably written in England, ca. 1748 (f. 207v), 1749 (f. 172r).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 752.

OCLC:

155985557

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