[Medical recipe book].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Neller, Hans Heinrich, 17th century.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

German

Latin

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

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

Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Prescriptions.

Recipes.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Hans Heinrich Neller (written in the manuscript as Hans Henricus Neller; inscription inside front cover).

Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London), 9 June 2005, lot 371.

Sold by Sokol Books (London), 2017.

Physical Description:

i + 237 + i leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 122 x 144 mm bound to 130 x 160 mm.

Place of Publication:

[Austria?], 1621-1622.

Language Note:

German, with some recipe titles and ingredients in Latin.

Summary:

Collection of recipes for powders, plasters, poultices, draughts, salves, eye-washes, soporifics, and remedies for the plague. The first 112 recipes (f. 1r-31r) are numbered 4-115, suggesting that the opening leaves of the volume are now missing. The recipe numbers were added in a black ink similar to that used in the middle of the volume (f. 41r-122r). In the midst of the recipes are four chapters copied from Petrus von der Stylle's Handbuch der Chirurgiae (Frankfurt am Main: Bassaeische Erben, 1611), on the plague (f. 49r-69v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: 237 leaves; [1-237], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in German cursive script with headings closer to fraktur script, with Latin words written in italic or secretary script.

Decoration: Three color illustrations of coats of arms: one signed Ferdinand Elbogner van Unter-Schönfeld and dated 1621 (f. 47v); one with name and caption difficult to read and dated 1621 (f. 67r); and one with the first name Gotthardt in the signature, the motto Mors Christi Vita Mea, and the year 1622 (f. 70r). One color illustration of a lit candle on a table surrounded by moths with the motto Aliis inserviendo me ipsum consumo (f. 48r).

Binding: Vellum.

Origin: Probably written in Austria (Ferdinand Elbogner van Unter-Schönfeld appears in Austrian legal documents), between 1621 and 1622.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 2042.

OCLC:

1241698706