Quatroux, Isaac

  • Quatroux, Isaac
Date:
1662-1663
Reference:
MSS.4025, 4026
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Le Pharmacien accomply. Ou le Cabinet pharmaceutique. Contenant des moyens familières et facilles pour bien connoistre, distinguer et médicamenter les maladies ordinaires et extraordinaires qui peuvent arriver à l'homme, tant par préceptes astrologiques et Galénistes que par remèdes chymiques. Avec l'Antidotaire. Le tout reduict en ordre pour suppléer au véritable Médecin, et mis en pratique par F[rère] Is[aac] Q[uatroux] R[éligieux] M[édecin] or[dre] M[inime]. These MSS., now divided into two volumes, formed originally one volume. There is a pen-drawn historiated frontispiece to the 'Antidotaire': texts within black rules. The Antidotire is dated 1662, the other volume 1663.

Publication/Creation

1662-1663

Physical description

2 volumes 2 vols. folio. 30 × 201/2 cm. Modern boards.

Contributors

Acquisition note

Purchased 1933.

Biographical note

The author's name is given in the 'Préface Au Lecteur' in verse in the first volume: 'Isaac le Pharmacien' in line 23, and 'Quatroux' in line 41. The last line also gives the name of the Scribe, Maillet, 'qui pour Quatroux et plein de passion Son livre ayant escrit avec affection'. Quatroux is the author of a 'Traité de la peste', published in Paris in 1671.

Ownership note

An anonymous note on a fly-leaf to the 'Antidotaire' states: 'le manuscrit ... provient de la Bibliothèque de Hemptinne (i.e. Auguste Donat de Hemptienne [1781-1854]), professor of chemistry at Brussels University) dont le vente a eu lieu à Bruxelles en 1884'. On the main title-page and on the frontispiece of the 'Antidotaire', a printed exlibris in red has been erased, though the word 'Rotterdam' is still legible.

Finding aids

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).

Languages

Permanent link

Identifiers

Accession number

  • 65671