Pharmacopée françoise.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Université de Paris. Faculté de médecine.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

French

Latin

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

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

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

prescriptions

translations (documents)

Manuscripts, French -- 18th century.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

A later provenance note refers to the parish of Saint-Severin (note in ink pasted to front flyleaf).

Sold by Le Pelican Noir (Charenton-le-Pont, France), 2021.

Physical Description:

ii + 186 + i leaves : paper ; 215 x 160 (170 x 120) mm bound to 225 x 175 mm.

Place of Publication:

[Paris?], 1767.

Language Note:

French

Summary:

French translation of recipes from the second part (Praeparationes) and third part (Operationes chymicae) of the Codex medicamentarius seu pharmacopoea Parisiensis (5th edition, 1758). The recipes in the second part are in categories such as syrups, extracts, and powders; the recipes in the second part are for methods such as distillation. At the end of the volume are a table of contents (with a note that the present book concerns the Pharmacopoea translated into French, p. 366-377) and a fold-out table of symbols for chemical characters for metals, minerals, instruments, weights, operations, and productions (pasted to p. 378).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (p. i).

Collation: Paper, 186 leaves; 1⁴ 2-10⁸ 11¹⁰ 12⁴ 13¹⁰ 14⁶ 15¹⁰ 16⁶ 17¹⁰ 18⁶ 19¹⁰ 20⁶ 21¹⁰ 22⁶ 23¹⁰ 24⁶; [i-ii], 1-100, 102-145, [i-ii], 146-275, 278-323, 334-364, [365-381], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper outer corners. Gaps in pagination are numbering errors, not missing leaves.

Layout: Written in 18-23 long lines; quarto format.

Script: Written in cursive script.

Binding: Calf with gilt spine over five bands; gilt spine title PHARMA FRANÇOI.

Origin: Written in France, possibly Paris, in 1767 (p. i).

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 2065.

OCLC:

1273074393