Saint-Denis, Abbaye de

Comptes que rend Catharine Goguet veufve de feu Guillaume Duval, Appothicaire de Messieurs de Sainct Denys, Prieurie et Convent dudict lieu, de toutes les receptes tout en medecines que Chirurgie ordonnes par le Medecin et Chirurgien dudict lieu pour les malades de la dicte Abbaye commencent le xi Aoust mil Vcent iiiiXX et ung. The record runs from 1581 to 1585, and is certified correct by the Auditors on behalf of the Community under the date 9 July 1585. This attestation is also signed by Loys Thibault 'Docteur Régent en la Faculté de Médecine en l'université de Paris'. Below this is a formal receipt for the money, signed by Catharine Goguet, dated 6 May 1586. Produced in Saint Denis.

1585, 1586

1 volume 108 ll. folio. 30 x 201/2 cm. 18th cent. calf gilt binding, with title label on side.

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 1921.

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).

The title label in gold on red, on the upper cover states that this MS. belonged to Mr Monteil (i.e. Amans Alexis Monteil [1769-1850], the historian). The MS. is mentioned in his book 'La médecine en France', Paris [1874], pp. 211, 212. Phillipps MS. 1328. Sold at Sotheby's 1/5/1903, Lot, 979.