Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.738

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.738
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.738
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.738
    • Wellcome Library, MS.738
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1500
  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 93 leaves 8vo. 17 x 111/2 cm. 16th cent. boards. Leaves are wanting after folios 65, 67, 77 and 85; the last leaf is damaged and stained.

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  • A foliation has been added in pencil. Headings in red, written in a current humanistic hand. The text is mainly in Italian, but some entries are in Latin. It contains chemical, technical, domestic, medical and cosmetic receipts, and others for colours, inks, dyes, varnishes, confectionery. On fol. 56 is a 'Secretum magistri Andreae Mantegna sive Squarzone [1431-1506] for an 'Aqua ex oleo lini'. The watermark is apparently Briquet 15375, assigned to Vicenza 1492.
  • Purchased from Lier, Florence, 9 March 1931.

Bibliography

  • 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).

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