Receipt-Book, Italian: 17th century

Collection of medical receipts in Italian, with a few in Latin. Preceded by 'Li sette salmi penitentiali di David in verso heroico novamente ridotti per Agostino Cesareo'. The 'Sette salmi' (ff. 1-36) and the Indexes are by the same hand: the receipts by a different, but contemporary scribe. The collection of receipts seems to have been compiled in a Monastery, as many of them are stated to have been given or used with success by individual named monks: and on fol. 81v a receipt is noted as 'provata da nostri fratri'.

c. 1625

1 volume 88 ff. + 8 ll. 8vo. 15 x 101/2 cm. Original vellum binding. Some leaves are missing after fol. 88, and the Index of Herbs at the end is wanting after letter L: the first leaf is somewhat stained.

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.

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).

No record has been traced of this translation of the Penitential Psalms, but a former [19th cent.] owner has written the date 1622 on the first leaf in pencil.