Receipt-Book, Italian: Before 1500

Collection of medical receipts, etc.: in Italian, by several hands. (Incomplete.) The first 5 leaves deal with remedies for toothache: these are followed by notes on poisons and antidotes (3 ll.), worm-diseases (2 ll.), virtues of herbs (5 ll.), miscellaneous prescriptions including eye diseases, baths, etc. There are several charms and incantations. On the verso of the first leaf is a note dealing with a money payment dated 1537, but the script is considerably later than that of the text. The water-mark-a basilisc holding a flag-is entered as No. 2717 in Briquet and dated 1395.

Late 15th century

1 volume 20 ll. 4to. 211/2 x 141/2 cm. Unbound. Ff. 1, 18, 20 damaged, many margins frayed.

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

Purchased 1908.

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).