Cosmetics

Collection of receipts mostly for cosmetics, perfumes, etc., with a few medical receipts. In Italian, with some entries in Latin. Lettered on the spine 'Recette pour la baute [sic]'. At the end of the text 'Finische 1596'.

1596

1 volume 52 ll. 8vo. 181/2 x 13 cm. On vellum, late 17th cent. quarter calf binding. Upper cover of the third leaf torn away, and a piece cut from the top of the first fly-leaf.

Purchased 1911.

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).