Einige von hocherfahrnen Medicis und vertrauten Freunden communicirte Recepte

The receipts are very varied, and there are a few in French and Latin by several later hands. The earliest dated entry, found on fol. 29v, is 1728, and the latest 1777, on fol. 129. Ff. 57-60 consist of a printed anonymous 'Bericht wie der Brunnen zu gebrauchen', with MS. additions, and of small 8vo. format (17 x 91/2 cm.). 61-70 Recepte und Beweisungen zum einigen Liqueurs und Lekerbischen. 93-102 Albrant [or Albrecht], Meister. Arzney buchlein worinnen allerhand...Regeln verzeichnet so bey den Pferdt zu gebrauchen und ist solches von hertzog Albrecht von Sachsen [sic] ... 104-107 Eine oeconomische Nachricht von Pferden insonderheit deren Kranckheiten und dargegen gebrauchenden Mitteln. A fragment from an unidentified printed pamphlet.

1728-1777

1 volume 144 ff. 4to. 21 x 161/2 cm. Modern paper covers. Some margins and corners damaged. Ff. 75-92 have been cut out. A title-page is probably missing.

Purchased 1931.

On the second leaf is the library stamp of the 'Fürstlich Stolberg Bibliothek Wernigerode'.

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).

Ff. 93-102 contain receipts from the 'Rossarzneibuch' of Meister Albrant Farrier and 'Veterinarius' to the Emperor Frederic II [1194-1250]. His name is given as Meister Albrecht in later MSS. [Cf. Eis (G.). Meister Albrants Rossarzneibuch. Konstanz (Baden). 1960.]