Book of medicines

Written throughout in a late Elizabethan Secretary hand within red rules. The receipts are in English, and arranged in alphabetical order of diseases or parts affected. On p. 16 is `A dyett for a burning argue made by the Queens Master Physitians', which seems to show that this MS. was written during Queen Elizabeth's reign-i.e. before 1603.

Late 16th century

1 volume 6 bl. ll. + 8 ll. + 236 pp. + 6 bl. ll. folio. 291/2 x 19 cm. Original gilt-stamped limp vellum binding, with 4 green silk ties (defective). Upper corner of fifth (blank) preliminary leaf torn away.

Purchased 1931.

Armorial Library Label of `High Legh Library. cup. 9. Shelf 2. No. 5'. Crest of George Cornwall Legh [1804-1877].

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).