Receipt-Book, Dutch & Flemish: 18th century

Collection of medical receipts, the formulae in Latin, but the text in Dutch. Preceded by a list of medicinal substances in Latin, with added translations into Dutch.

mid-18th century

1 volume 11 ll. (first bl.). + 175 pp. + 10 ll. (last 2 bl.). 4to. 20 × 16 cm. Modern half-buckram binding.

Purchased 1920.

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).