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.

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).

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