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Credit
MS.4103. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
MS.4103
- Date:
- 1697 A.D
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Anonymous collection of post-Byzantine iatrosophia containing instructions for diagnosis and phlebotomy, various recipes of composite drugs (generally structured a capite ad calcem),
spells, short texts on auspicious days and on dream interpretation, moon-tables, and zodiacal tables. The text is not clearly organised and the original order of the leaves remains uncertain.
Publication/Creation
Greece, Northern Greece, 1697 A.D.
Physical description
Folded in 4.; Watermarks: Watermark very similar to Andreev 40.218 (attested in 1664 AD); Material: paper; 125 unbound leaves; dimensions: height 215 mm, length 150 mm
Acquisition note
Purchased on behalf of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at Sotheby's sale, London, 17 February 1936, lot 97 (accession number 69261).
Hand note
Unidentified post-Byzantine hand.
Ownership note
(not before 1836, not after 1936): Owned by Sir Algernon Methuen.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request