[Farrier's remedy book].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Veterinary medicine--Early works to 1800.
• Horses--Diseases--Early works to 1800.
• Veterinary drugs--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• prescriptions
• Recipes.
• Manuscripts, English -- 18th century.
• Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by Dean Cooke Rare Books (Bristol, England), 2025.

Physical Description:

48 leaves : paper ; 210 x 165 mm bound to 210 x 175 mm + 9 notes.

Place of Publication:

[Cambridgeshire?, England], [circa 1788].

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

Collection of 298 veterinary recipes (1-296 numbered), many for horses, some for cows and dogs, and a few for people, referred to as Christians, followed by a table of drugs used by farriers, listed with their uses and prices (p. 71-79). Nine notes are laid in, two prescriptions dated 21 August 1788 for Alice Murphy and Alice Murphet (both likely Alice Murfit of Cambridgeshire, 1757-1842, identified by Dean Cooke) and seven additional remedies or fragments of remedies, one of which is marked, "Entered in the Book 219," and added to the remedy listed under that number (p. 51).

Contents:

• 1. p.1-68: [Veterinary remedies]
• 2. p.71-79: A table of the price, value, and virtue of most of the principal drugs both simple and compound belonging to farrying as they are frequently sold at the druggests in London.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger (space ruled for a caption title but left blank, p.1).
• Collation: Paper, 48; 1⁴⁴ with a gathering of 4 laid in (p. 61-68); modern pagination in pencil, upper center, [i-xiv], 1-10, [11], 12-13, [14-82].
• Layout: Ruled in lead; remedy numbers in left margin; quarto format.
• Script: Written in cursive script.
• Watermark: Britannia, with countermark CM in italic (Dean Cooke).
• Binding: Formerly in paper wrappers, fragment remains in sewing.
• Origin: Probably written in Cambridgeshire, England (reference to Huntingdon in pencil note, p. 57; Dean Cooke), approximately 1788 (dated notes laid in).

Cited as:

Farrier's Remedy Book (Ms. Codex 2320). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1528989028

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