Codex botanicus

Codex botanicus. In quo plantarum analisis, virtutes, phrasesque traduntur: in French and Latin. Contents: (1) Introduction à la connoissance des plantes (pp. 1-9). (2) Abrégé de tout le système de botanique selon M. Tournefort (pp. 10-26). (3) Plantarum phrases in Horto Regio Parisiensi provenientium (pp. 27-244), pp. 245-253 blank). (4) Explication physique et mécanique de la manière d'agir les remèdes (pp. 254-339). (5) Vertus des plantes usuelles selon l'ordre quelles ont été démontrées au Jardin du Roy à Paris. Par M. Jussieu (pp. 340-470). (6) [Anon.] Quaestiones medicae (de venenis) (6 ll.). The date 14 December 1717 occurs on the third leaf from the end of the last section. This MS. by an anonymous compiler contains abbreviated versions of Tournefort's works, and of the work by Bernard de Jussieu, first published in 1725: the last work is by a different hand and probably written somewhat later.

c. 1730

1 volume 1 l. + 471 pp. + 30 ll. (last 13 bl.). 4to. 201/2 × 15 cm. Original calf-gilt binding.

Purchased 1911.

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).