Receipt-Book, German: 17th/18th century

Collection of iatrochemical and chemical receipts in German: a few entries in Latin, by several hands. On the first leaf is a pen-drawing of a laboratory, showing drug-jars, a furnace, and chemical apparatus. The sixth leaf from the end contains tables of planetary signs for the days of the week. There are some blank leaves in the middle and towards the end of the volume. On the last leaf there is a cypher alphabet.

c. 1675-1725

1 volume 94 ll. tall 8vo. 191/2 × 8 cm. Bound in a vellum leaf from a 13th cent. Service book. Some headings underlined in green.

Purchased 1909.

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).