Hortulus remediorum: sanitatis officina: in French

A collection of medical receipts, also including household receipts, etc. Ff. 57, 58 contain a price-list of drugs. 'Prix des simples médicamens qui se trouvent chès [sic] les droguistes'.

Middle 17th century

1 volume 3 ll. + 84 ff. 4to. 24 x 171/2 cm. Original calf binding, damaged. The end is wanting, ff. 75-84 badly mutilated, ff. 58-74 damaged: corners and margins frayed. Fol. 38 has been cut out.

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 1929.

Though written in what is apparently an early 17th cent. hand, the MS. must be dated about the middle of that century or later. On fol. 15v is a 'Recepte de Mr François Rouxel de Medevy [1605-1691], Evesque de Sais' [Séez], followed by 'à present archevesque de Rouen l'année 1671'-which has clearly been added later. This ecclesiastic became bishop of Séez in 1651, and was appointed Archbishop of Rouen in 1671.

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).