A Dispensatory

Neatly written in minute writing with elaborate headings in imitation of printed type, by the same scribe as MS.MSL.12. The whole is a strange mixture of rational medicine and quackery, with alchemistic and astrological elements. There is no name or date, but the character of the script and subject matter indicate the seventeenth century. The title-page to the whole reads "Thesauri Sanitatis Liber III, continens" etc. as detailed below. Books I and II, in another volume (or volumes) are not in the collection.

17th century

352 folios 8vo. 18.5 × 10.5 cm. Old tooled leather binding, rebacked; gilt edges.

Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).