Marseilles: Plague, 1721 (Item bound within a tract volume, T.855 (71))
- Date:
- 1721
- Reference:
- MS.3458A
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
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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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores