[Manuscript excerpts from printed German medical works]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richter, Christian Friedrich, 1676-1711.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Latin

Subjects (All):

Materia medica--Early works to 1800.

Materia medica.

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Genre:

Manuscripts, German -- 18th century.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Possible ownership inscriptions: monogram SMF and signature Zachrias Dieser (?) (p. 2).

Sold by Antiquariat Rainer Kurz (Oberaudorf, Germany), 2019.

Physical Description:

41 leaves : paper ; 165 x 95 mm bound to 175 x 115 mm.

Place of Publication:

[Germany], 1732.

Language Note:

German with Latin terms.

Summary:

Manuscript additions bound in after a printed edition of Christoph von Hellwig's Der wohl unterwiesene Apothecker, oder, Gründliche Anleitung zur heutigen Apothecker-Kunst ... (Arnstadt, Leipzig, 1730). Most of the manuscript material consists of two substantial excerpts copied from Christian Friedrich Richter's printed medical works Kurzer und deutlicher Unterricht von dem Leibe und natürlichen Leben des Menschen (Halle, 1705; p. 3-17) and Die höchstnöthige Erkenntniß des Menschen, sonderlich nach dem Leibe und natürlichen Leben (Leipzig, 1710; p. 17-55). Additional notes and recipes written by multiple hands at the end of the volume (p. 57-81).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Paper, 41 leaves; 1-4⁸ 5⁸⁺¹ (+9); [1-82], modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. References in this record are to the modern pagination in the manuscript section of the volume.

Script: Written in German cursive script by multiple hands.

Decoration: Narrow margins ruled in ink on most of the pages of excerpts from Richter (p. 2-43).

Binding: Blind-stamped leather.

Origin: Written in Germany in 1732 (p. 2).

The printed work is cataloged separately under the title Der wohl unterwiesene Apothecker, oder, Gründliche Anleitung zur heutigen Apothecker-Kunst ... (Arnstadt, Leipzig: Verlegts Ernst Ludwig Niedt, 1730).

OCLC:

1141666116