Bartroli, Michael

Notes and extracts on pharmacy, surgery and anatomy, with medical, alchemical, and chemical receipts, etc. In Spanish, Latin, and Catalan.

Illustrated with a few very rough pen-drawings of chemical apparatus, etc.

Contents:

Work on the principles of pharmacy in the form of question and answer. In Spanish (ll. 1-31).

Mesue Damascenus (J.) Canones. In Spanish (ll. 32-39).

Notes on pharmacy and materia medica. In Spanish, Latin, and Catalan (ll. 40-53).

Saladino de Asculo. Compendium aromatariorum (ll. 54-69).

Medical and other receipts in Latin, Spanish and Catalan (ll. 70-106).

Codern de Cirurgia. In Catalan (ll. 120-137).

Epitome de Anatomia per preguntas y respostas. In Catalan (ll. 138-145).

On the recto of the last leaf is a note dated 2 November 1702, recording the coming of a Franciscan Mission to the village of Olesa [Oleza]. On the fourth preliminary leaf 'Hic liber est de me Michaellis Bartroli Juuenis Pharmacopolae anno 1689'.

1689-1702

1 volume 4 ll. + 165 ll. 4to. 21 x 151/2 cm. Original vellum binding: both leather ties wanting. First two leaves slightly defective.

Purchased 1908.

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).