[Veterinary and medical recipe book].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Medicine.

Veterinary prescriptions--Early works to 1800.

Veterinary prescriptions.

Horses--Diseases--Early works to 1800.

Horses.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

prescriptions

recipes

Manuscripts, English -- 18th century.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by James Smith (signature in ink and pencil, p. i)

Sold at auction by Forum Auctions (London), 27 March 2020, lot 56.

Sold by Jonathan A. Hill (New York), 2020.

Physical Description:

72 leaves : paper ; 190 x 165 mm bound to 200 x 165 mm.

Place of Publication:

[England], [circa 1796-1804]

Summary:

Manuscript volume with a collection of veterinary remedies for horses starting from one end (p. 1-74) and a copy of John Theobald's Every man his own physician starting from the other end (p. 75-134, starting from the end). Several of the horse remedies are copied from The gentleman farrier's repository of elegant and approved remedies for the diseases of horses by John Bartlet, printed repeatedly in the second half of the 18th century. Other unidentified attributions include Mr. Wm. Taplin, Barneys, London Dispensatory, Dr. Wilson, The gentleman's jockey, George King, J. Turner, Rackham, and Newmarket Jack. A table of contents for the first thirty pages precedes them (p. ii). Starting from the end of the volume are six pages of remedies for cows, followed by a table of contents and one more remedy (p. 142-135). The rest of this half of the volume is the copy of Every man his own physician, another work, on home medicine, that was printed repeatedly in the second half of the 18th century.

Contents:

1. f.1-74: Elegant and proved receipts for the diseases of horses

f.75-134: Every man his own physician: approved remedies for every disease incident to the human body / by John Theobald

f.135-142: Cows.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Pagination: Paper, 72 leaves; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, [i-ii], 1-30, [31-142], upper outer corners.

Layout: Ruled in pencil with a left vertical bounding line and a varying number of lines; quarto format.

Script: Written in cursive script by multiple hands.

Binding: Sheep-backed marbled boards with worn spine and covers nearly detached (Jonathan A. Hill).

Origin: Probably written in England, circa 1796 (title date, p. 1) to 1804 (p. 48).

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 2072.

Contains:

Theobald, John, -1760 Every man his own physician.

Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772. Gentleman farrier's repository.

Elegant and proved receipts for the diseases of horses.

OCLC:

1285862203

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