Receipt-Book, Italian: 16th century

Collection of medical receipts and notes: in Italian and Latin. There is a long section on 'Unguenta', and on medical weights and measures which is dated 'addi 9 di dicembre 1519'.

1519

1 volume 24 ll. 4to. 211/2 x 14 cm. Unbound. First leaf repaired: 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).