Collection of medical receipts, etc.: in Italian, by several hands. (Incomplete.) The first 5 leaves deal with remedies for toothache: these are followed by notes on poisons and antidotes (3 ll.), worm-diseases (2 ll.), virtues of herbs (5 ll.), miscellaneous prescriptions including eye diseases, baths, etc. There are several charms and incantations. On the verso of the first leaf is a note dealing with a money payment dated 1537, but the script is considerably later than that of the text. The water-mark-a basilisc holding a flag-is entered as No. 2717 in Briquet and dated 1395.
1 volume 20 ll. 4to. 211/2 x 141/2 cm. Unbound. Ff. 1, 18, 20 damaged, many margins frayed.
Toxicology; Materia Medica; Formulas, recipes, etc.; Medicine, Traditional; Charms; Botany
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Format: Archive, Institution: n/a, Identifier: b1937009x, Digicode: digwms, Collection code: MS.646