Petit traitté des pronostics et usage de la Médecine, with other tracts and a collection of iatro-chemical receipts

On p. 248 is a pen-drawing of a vessel for the purification of oils. (1) Petit traitté des pronostics (pp. 1-39). (2) Pseudo-Hippocrates. Traitté attribué à Hippocrate de la signification de vie ou du mort par le mouvement de la lune et les aspects des autres planètes (pp. 39-96). (3) Le temps pour cueillir les simples remplis des influences des astres (pp. 97-105). (4) Pour vivre longtemps, [etc.] (pp. 105-128). (5) Remèdes de Van Helmont [etc.] (129-182). (6) Remèdes de Paracelse [etc.] (pp. 182-229). (7) Remèdes de Rabelais [etc.] (pp. 229-end).

c. 1660

1 volume 1 bl. l. + 254 pp. + 10 [11] ll. 8vo. 151/2 × 111/2 cm. Original calf binding. The fifth unpaginated leaf has been cut out: some text affected by oxidation of the ink.

Purchased 1931.

The last two unpaginated leaves contain holograph receipts by a former owner Charles Blanc, Maître-Chirurgien à Mende, whose engraved Ex-libris is pasted down inside the upper cover. There are also some financial notes, written above this by him, and on the first unpaginated leaf; and on the verso of the last leaf and inside the lower cover he has written some notes on chemistry. Sir Kenelm Digby [1603-1663] and Josephus Quercetanus [Duchesne] [1546-1609] are among the authors quoted. According to the bookseller Duhem of Montpellier, this MS. is mentioned in a letter dated 1751 by the French physician Henri Haguenot of Montpellier [1687-1775].

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).