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Collection of medical, chemical, and alchemical extracts, receipts, etc.: in German and Latin. No. 9 is headed 'Communicatum Anno 1595 Die Solis et Conversionis S. Pauli a medico in Pintika [?] duobus milliaribus ab Halle in Schuaben Santer'. The 'Processus Rogerii Bachi' apparently refers to Roger Bacon. Santer is also mentioned again, on fol. 183v, and perhaps again on fol. 163v as 'Matthaeus Sandner'. The presumed writer's name appears again in the entry on fol. 163v 'Clarissimo magistro D[omino] O. P[artholomaeo ?] Doctori medico Noriburgensi excellentissimo humanissimo Carolus Cortesius D. M. Gallus Aualonensis observantiae primae ipso aequinoctii Verni die Anno 1589 Arcanum [dedit]'. The name of Cortesius is also found as the author of Nos. 11 and 13. Produced in Nüremburg.

c. 1580-1595

1 volume 1 l. + 164 ff. + 21 ll. 8vo. 161/2 x 10 cm. Original vellum covers, from a leaf of a 14th cent. Service Book. Most of the last leaf has been torn away.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1930.

The Compiler's name is possibly O. Partholomaeus for on fol. 54v he says 'et ipse Partholomeus experientiam habui in francia anno [15]63'.

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).