Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.399

Autre libellé du document :
- London. Wellcome Collection, MS.399
- London. Wellcome Library, MS.399
- Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.399
- Wellcome Library, MS.399
Conservé à : Londres. Wellcome Library
Date de fabrication :
- 1494-1510 (Source : Wellcome Collection - Online Collections)
Composition :
- 1 volume; 130 folios folio. 28 x 21 1/2 cm. Paper. Original vellum covers damaged. Some leaves cut out and others mutilated. Several loose slips have been inserted on which the writing is the same as that of the text. These slips are attached to the leaves by pins of contemporary date.

Anciens possesseurs

Account of receipts of rent from various manors in the Sandwich area of Kent. Containing on f. 107v 'Probata medicina ffor pe ffrenche poxe', probably written about 1503. This recipe for a cure for syphilis is at the back of an entry dated 1503 recording a payment by John Langley, gentleman of Knowlton in Kent, to the 'Pryncipall of Staple Yard in Holborn in London'. Above the prescription is a short musical composition on a five-line stave.
Written inside the upper cover: 'F. Wilhelmus Cock MD, S.A.S., de Appledore in comitatu cantii. Emptus e venditione amici mei Lelandi L[ewis] Duncan S.A.S. [1862-1923] MCMXXVI. Pretio pondauri IX C semisse'.
Purchased from Dr. Frederick William Cock 1932.

Ces références bibliographiques ont été récupérées telles quelles des données à la source

Cock, F. William, 'An early prescription in English', British Medical Journal, May 17th, 1924.