Receipt-Book, Italian: 17th century

Collection of medical receipts in Italian, with a few in Latin. Preceded by 'Li sette salmi penitentiali di David in verso heroico novamente ridotti per Agostino Cesareo'. The 'Sette salmi' (ff. 1-36) and the Indexes are by the same hand: the receipts by a different, but contemporary scribe. The collection of receipts seems to have been compiled in a Monastery, as many of them are stated to have been given or used with success by individual named monks: and on fol. 81v a receipt is noted as 'provata da nostri fratri'.

c. 1625

1 volume 88 ff. + 8 ll. 8vo. 15 x 101/2 cm. Original vellum binding. Some leaves are missing after fol. 88, and the Index of Herbs at the end is wanting after letter L: the first leaf is somewhat stained.

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.

No record has been traced of this translation of the Penitential Psalms, but a former [19th cent.] owner has written the date 1622 on the first leaf in pencil.

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).