Jaques, Gerard

Collection of notes on medicine, followed by medical receipts, etc.: in English. Rough pen-drawing of the geocentric Cosmos on verso of first leaf: on ll. 41-53 crude illustrations of urine flasks, some partly coloured. The first 55 ll. contain notes on medical astrology, urines, etc. The remainder of the volume consists of medical receipts and remedies, mostly by the same hand. In the lower margin of l. 182 'Gerard Jaques his book'. In this inscription the name 'John' which was apparently written first, has been struck through, and 'Gerard' written above it. On fol. 45v some scribblings including 'Ger. Jaques', 'James Jaques his booke': in the latter the name 'James' has perhaps been altered to 'John'.

Middle 16th century

1 volume 215 ll. 8vo. 141/2 X 91/2 cm. Original leather binding with tie, very defective. Some leaves wanting at beginning and end, and 10 leaves missing from the body of the work, leaf 16 mutilated: margins and corners frayed, stained throughout. The MS. has been refoliated in pencil.

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Purchased 1930.

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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).