Receipt-Book, French: 18th-19th century

Collection of medical receipts, with a few domestic receipts: in French and Flemish. The receipts are by several hands: one on the eighth leaf seems to have been written in 1787, and one on the fifth leaf from the end of the text is dated 1824.

1787-1824

1 volume 90 ll. (first 2 bl.). + 6 bl. ll. 8vo. 181/2 × 12 cm. Original vellum 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).