Dutch & Flemish Receipt-Books, 16th century

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Collection of medical receipts in Flemish: with a number of philosophical aphorisms in Latin, and extracts from Rabelais in French.
By several hands.
The date 1580 appears on the verso of the fourth leaf from the end.
The extracts from Rabelais, or from writings attributed to him, are as under:
Fol. 2, 1.15-Fol. 3, 1.22 Pantagruel. Book IV, cap. 67. The first paragraph is wanting.
Fol.3, 1.34-Fol. 5v, 1.19 Pantagruel. Book IV, cap. 7 [or 16].
Fol.5v, 1.20-Fol. 6, 1.27 Pantagruel. Book IV, cap. 47. The first two paragraphs are wanting.
Fol.6, 1.28-Fol. 7v, 1.4 Epistre limosine.
Fol.7v, 1.5-Fol. 8, 1.6 La cresme philosophale.
The last two items are almost certainly not by Rabelais.
The Chapter-numbers, etc. in the above note are from S. Putnam's All the extant works of François Rabelais, 3 vols. P.P. New York, 1929.

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