Inventories and valuations of stock

Catalogus pharmacorum quae apud pharmacopolas Londinenses generaliter prostant.

Folio printed broadsheet listing simples on sale in London, printed in six columns. 605 x 483 mm. Issued with a similar sheet listing compound medicines, Preparationes chymicae et Galenicae (London, 1747)

Five copies of each, used by Thomas Corbyn and his partners in stock-taking 1754-73, and annotated with quantities of stock. With a sixth copy of Praeparationes (date of use not stated).

1. Catalogus Annotated on the verso, 'no. 1. This catalogue contains the particular quantities of the drugs sold from the time of Morris Clutton's death to that of taking stock. Transcribed into the catalogue no. 3, 19 Dec. 1754'

2. Praeparationes. Annotated, 'no. 2. This catalogue contains the particular quantities of the preparations sold from the time of Morris Clutton's death to that of taking stock. Transcribed into the catalogue no. 4, 19. Dec. 1754'

3. Catalogus. Annotated 'no. 3. Drug catalogue. Transcribed 21 Dec. 1754 into a book'

4. Praeparationes. Annotated 'no. 4. Catalogue of preparations. Transcribed into a book 21 Dec. 1754'

5-6 Catalogus and Praeparationes. Corbyn, Brown and Marshall. Dec. 1766

7-8. Catalogus and Praeparationes. Corbyn, Brown and Beaumont, Jan. 1770.

9-10 Catalogus and Praeparationes. Corbyn, Brown and Beaumont, 1 Jan. 1773.

11. Praeparationes. Date of stock-taking not stated.

1754-1773

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Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).