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Receipts for several disorders in human species, horses, cattle, &c.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1976
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herring, Thomas, 18th century.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.
- Traditional medicine.
- Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
- Veterinary prescriptions--Early works to 1800.
- Veterinary prescriptions.
- Genre:
- Codices.
- Prescriptions.
- Recipes.
- Manuscripts, English.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Eric Stanley Quayle (Quaritch).
- Sold at auction with other items from Eric Stanley Quayle at Sotheby's, 10 April 1997 (slip formerly laid in manuscript), lot 370 (partial), to Christopher Hogwood.
- Formerly owned by Christopher Hogwood (Quaritch).
- Sold by Bernard Quaritch (London), List 2016/15, From the library of Christopher Hogwood, Books & manuscripts on food and drink (2016), number 33.
- Physical Description:
- 24 leaves : paper ; 170 x 110 mm bound to 175 x 115 mm + 2 leaves
- Other Title:
- Book of receipes : Thomas Herrings book, Witton Gilbert, 1768
- Place of Publication:
- Witton Gilbert, [publisher not identified], [circa 1768-1793]
- Summary:
- Collection of approximately 50 medical and veterinary recipes for medicines, ointments, and plasters to treat diseases such as ague and colds; conditions such as rheumatism and scurvy; and injuries such as burns. Recipes at the end of the volume were added at a later date, possibly by other hands, some with attributions to dated publications. A table of contents at the front (f. i-iii) includes entries for all of the recipes. One recipe for a disease called wilfire or wildfire, with the date 1787 and a later note dated 1903 on the verso, is laid in the manuscript together with a 1904 clipping about wildfire disease. The wildfire recipe is added to the table of contents by the 1903 hand.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from caption title (p. i); cover title, Book of receipes: Thomas Herrings book, Witton Gilbert, 1768.
- Collation: Paper, 24 leaves; 1⁶ 2¹⁴ (second quire bound between leaves 2 and 3 of the first quire); original pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners, [i-iv], 1-44.
- Script: Written in cursive script, with possible additional hands at the end (p. 31-33).
- Binding: 18th-century paper.
- Origin: Written in Witton Gilbert (cover title), Durham County, England, between 1768 (cover title) and 1793 (latest contemporary date in manuscript, p. 33).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1976.
- OCLC:
- 1081030947
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