S. P.

Fragment of a work on materia medica and pharmacy: in French. The first part (ff. 1-35) contains notes on materia medica. Fol. 36 is headed 'Institutions pharmaceutiques, ou préceptes par lesquels on peut apprendre la voye et chemin qu'il fault tenir pour ce [sic] rendre bon appothicaire'. The date 1637 occurs on fol. 30, and on fol. 45v.

1637

1 volume 47 ll. folio. 251/2 x 171/2 cm. Unbound. The beginning and end are wanting: fol. 32 is mutilated, and the first 8 and last 11 leaves are defective; stained throughout. A leaf before fol. 32 has been cut out.

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 1934.

The initials P.S. appear in the lower margin of fol. 29, and are perhaps those of the compiler.

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).