Receipt-Book, German: 16th century

Collection of medical receipts in German, including a 'Regiment in Zeit der Pestilentz'. At the end a 'Consilium' in Latin 'De catarrho cerebri et curatione ejusdem'. The Plague tract has not been identified, and is in the form of a prayer.

c. 1525

1 volume 54 ll. 4to. 19 x 141/2 cm. Modern vellum binding. Margins slightly cropped.

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 1923.

The 'Consilium' is by a different hand. On the verso of the last leaf are two receipts in the same script as that of the Arzneibuch [MS. No. 94] and the Receipt-book in German [MS. No. 642], and it seems almost certain that these two MSS., and the present MS. originally formed part of one large volume.

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).