Giering, Philipp Samuel

Annotated copy, inter-leaved with MS. notes, of Georg Wolffgang Wedel's 'De medicamentorum compositione extemporanea'. Editio secunda. Jena: J. Bielk. 1693. Followed by MS. additions to Daniel Ludwig's 'De pharmacia moderno saeculo accommodata' [1671]. With other MS notes on materia medica, receipts, etc.: in Latin, a few in German. The MS. tract immediately following the printed work, is headed 'Decas I', and consists of 64 receipts, etc. After the 82 blank leaves is a MS. headed 'Selectus remediorum ad ductum Danielis Ludovici Pharmaciae moderno seculo applicandae', followed by 'Euporista Wedeliana'. Some of the additions on the inter-leaved pages in the first section are dated: the latest date is 1773-on the penultimate leaf of the text. By the same hand as MS. 2517, Giering's 'Index disputationum'.

c. 1765

1 volume 4 ll. + 212 pp. + 6 ll. + 16 ll. + 82 bl. ll. + 72 pp. + 9 ll. (last 5 bl.). 4to. 20 × 161/2 cm. Original half vellum binding.

Purchased 1930.

On the t.p. library stamp 'Gieringsche Bibliothek'.

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).