Receipt-Book, French: 16th century

Date:
c. 1560
Reference:
MS.641
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Receipt-Book, French: 16th century. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of medical, veterinary, cosmetic and miscellaneous receipts: in French, by several hands. The water-mark-a he-goat and name (Etmond? Denise) seems to be a variant of Briquet No. 2864 which dates from 1553 to 1560, and is of Belgian origin.

Publication/Creation

c. 1560

Physical description

1 volume 27 ll. (first & last 2 bl.) folio. 27 x 19 cm. Modern vellum binding. Stained slightly throughout, margins cropped in rebinding.

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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1936.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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  • 69498