Steinbach, Johann

Collection of medical receipts: in Latin. Some headings in red. A foliation in pencil has been added. The date 1534 appears on fol. 4, and on fol. 87v is a receipt for an electuary for epilepsy dated 7 april 1536. On the first leaf are notes of weights and measures in German for the year 1507. The spine is lettered 'Chymica manuscripta'. Ff. 4-20, 262-273 contain remedies for 'Morbus Gallicus'. The fly-leaf is inscribed on the verso 'Sum mei Johan Steinbach' by a contemporary, but probably different hand from that of the text.

1534-1536

1 volume 1 l. + 275 ff. (last 2 bl.). 4to. 201/2 x 16 cm. Original vellum binding: leather ties wanting. Three leaves have been cut out after fol. 261

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 1930.

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).

Inside the upper cover, engraved armorial book-plate of Ignatius Dominicus S.R.I. Comes de Chorinsky [1729-1792].