Receipt-Book, German: 16th century

Collection of medical receipts in German and Latin, including herbal remedies. Latin-German glossary of herbs (incomplete). Leaf 4 and 5r contain 'Von dem lebendigen wasser daz man da nennet daz guldin wasser hat gelert der...Meister Bartholomeus von franckfort'. Ll. 13-end contain the Glossary of Herbs beginning: 'Artimesia significat bibosz' which is entered in Thorndike's 'Incipits' Col. 63, and attributed to 'Macer'.

c. 1525

1 volume 18 ll. 4to. 19 x 141/2 cm. Modern vellum binding. The end is wanting. Margins cropped. Some initials and headings in red.

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 1923.

Written by the same hand as MS. No. 94 [Arzneibuch], of which is probably may have originally formed part.

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).