Marseilles: Plague, 1721 (Item bound within a tract volume, T.855 (71))

Date:
1721
Reference:
MS.3458A
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Description

Collection of receipts against the plague, including a Prayer to Saint Roch [1295-1327] in verse: also an 'Ode irrégulière sur Marseille'. Followed by miscellaneous medical receipts: in French.

Written at the time of the great epidemic in 1721, and bound in a volume of printed tracts, labelled on the spine 'Peste de Marseille'.

Publication/Creation

1721

Physical description

1 volume 19 ll. 4to. 22 × 16 1/2 cm. Bound in a volume of printed tracts (T.855 (71)).

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).

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