MS.4103

Date:
1697 A.D
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Credit

MS.4103. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

Anonymous collection of post-Byzantine iatrosophia containing instructions for diagnosis and phlebotomy, various recipes of composite drugs (generally structured a capite ad calcem), spells, short texts on auspicious days and on dream interpretation, moon-tables, and zodiacal tables. The text is not clearly organised and the original order of the leaves remains uncertain.

Publication/Creation

Greece, Northern Greece, 1697 A.D.

Physical description

Folded in 4.; Watermarks: Watermark very similar to Andreev 40.218 (attested in 1664 AD); Material: paper; 125 unbound leaves; dimensions: height 215 mm, length 150 mm

Acquisition note

Purchased on behalf of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at Sotheby's sale, London, 17 February 1936, lot 97 (accession number 69261).

Hand note

Unidentified post-Byzantine hand.

Ownership note

(not before 1836, not after 1936): Owned by Sir Algernon Methuen.

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