Medicijn-boekjen van remedien bij mijn geprobeerd, en goed bevonden.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Mels, M.

Language:

Dutch

Subjects (All):

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

Medicine.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

prescriptions.

Recipes.

Manuscripts, Dutch -- 18th century.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Antiquariaat Forum ('t Goy-Houten, Netherlands), 2018.

Physical Description:

127 leaves : paper ; 127 x 75 mm bound to 135 x 90 mm

Place of Publication:

[Netherlands], 1721.

Language Note:

Dutch.

Summary:

Approximately 20 medical recipes, including purgatives, laxatives, salves, and remedies for ulcers, gangrene, and kidney stones at the beginning of a mostly blank volume.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Collation: Paper, 127; 1⁸⁻³(pastedown, -2, -3) 2-4⁸ 5⁴ 6-16⁸ 17⁸⁻²(-7, pastedown); [i], 1-13, [14-126] (13-126 blank); original foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Duodecimo format (Antiquariaat Forum).

Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand (f. i recto-12v).

Watermark: Coat of arms of Amsterdam.

Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) parchment, with 2 silver clasps on the fore edge, with column-form clasps and open-work catch plates and anchor plates (Antiquariaat Forum).

Origin: Written in the Netherlands in 1721 (f. 1r).

Cited as:

M. Mels, Medicijn-boekjen van remedien (Ms. Codex 2126). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1388565591

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