Medical receipts and remedies in German

Collection of medical receipts and remedies in German, including a herbal. Ornamental initial in red and yellow on first leaf, other capitals, headings, foliation and paragraph marks in red.

.ff. 1r-11r: 'Von dem gebranten weyne', and other receipts. Ff. 11r-60r: 'Nota circa herbarium: item von der frawenseuche'. ff. 60r-63r: 'Dy varbe dy de hörn hot' [Colours of urines, etc.]. Ff. 63r-72v: Miscellaneous receipts and remedies. The section from f. 60-end seems to be based on Ortolff von Bayerland's 'Arzneibuch'-first printed at Nuremberg in 1477. He is named on f. 64r. The first 11 of the 12 un-foliated leaves (up to the recto of the 11th leaf) at the end contain a Register of the manuscript's contents, which refers to the foliated leaves up to f. 40. On the verso of the 11th leaf is a Latin prayer by another hand. On the verso of the last leaf 'Joannes spangl nech Gemnoch [?].' This place-name may probably be a 15th century spelling of Gemmenach in Belgium near Aachen.

Late 15th century

1 volume 72 ff. + 12 unnumbered leaves. 8vo. 16 x 11 cm. Modern vellum covers from a leaf from a 14th cent. Service-book. Margins slightly cropped in binding.

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.

This material has been digitised and can be freely accessed online through Wellcome Collection catalogue.

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).