Mesue, Joannes ( -1015) (& others)

Compendium sur les deux premiers Canons de Mesué. Collection of medical receipts, by several hands. Contents: Mesue (J.) Compendium. In the form of question and answer (pp. 1-119). [Anon.] Caractères des Méraux, Minéraux, et opérations chimiques (pp. 121-127). Miscellaneous medical receipts, etc. (pp. 128-end). The date 1770 is found on p. 232, and 1772 on the first of the last 8 ll: but the 'Compendium' was probably written some years earlier.

c. 1770

1 volume 1 [2] bl. l. + 257 pp. + 14 ll. + 131 bl. ll. + 8 ll. 8vo. 18 × 11 1/2 cm. Original vellum binding. The first leaf has been torn out.

Purchased 1936.

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).