Ribé

Collection of notes and extracts on diseases and their treatment: in French. There are many translated extracts from late 17th cent. English medical writers. One of the many marginal and later additions on p. 17 is dated 1709, and the main text seems to have been written in 1701 (p. 27), but some of the notes may have been written after 1709 from the evidence of the script, which in places is that of a man of advanced age. The name 'Ribé' appears in the upper margin of the 'Table'.

Early 18th century

1 volume 2 ll. + 186 pp. + 1 l. 8vo. 17 × 111/2 cm. Original limp vellum covers: both leather ties wanting. First leaf slightly damaged.

Purchased 1919.

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).

From the Debacq Collection.