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Auction archive: Lot number 80

Anonymous authors

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$3,981 - US$6,636
Price realised:
£5,625
ca. US$7,465
Auction archive: Lot number 80

Anonymous authors

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$3,981 - US$6,636
Price realised:
£5,625
ca. US$7,465
Beschreibung:

Anonymous authors Two medical and pharmaceutical manuscript recipe books, in Latin, German and Italian, on paper and vellum [Germany, 17th century and northern Italy, perhaps Sud Tirol, 1700s] Medical recipe book, in Latin and Renaissance German, manuscript on paper [Germany, 17th century]. An exhaustively detailed alphabetised compendium of German medicinal recipes, including an extremely early one for the preparation of hot chocolate - contemporary to the introduction of cocoa to Germany. 179 x 123mm, i + 195 + i leaves, apparently complete, sporadic pagination to 391, varying number of lines (heavy soiling to opening leaves, marginal staining throughout). Modern white vellum binding. Provenance: (1) The watermark is closely comparable to Briquet 7071, recorded in Veldenz in the Rhineland-Palatinate near Koblenz for 1590. (2) Modern German inscription in pencil on front flyleaf. Content: Medical remedies arranged alphabetically, with running headers A-Z, followed by a miscellaneaous section (p.340), the beginning of an index (p.388); the recipes including ones to cure constipation (p.56); induce diarrhoea and vomiting (p.237); cure syphilis (p.249); an early recipe for hot chocolate (p.346); ‘Gold tinctus’ (p.351 – a medical recipe for gold tincture also discussed in later centuries by Georg Ernst Stahl, Materia Medica. Das ist: Zubereitung, Krafft und Würckung, Derer sonderlich [...], p.28); and a cure for gonorrhea (p.364). Cocoa is said to have been introduced to Germany by a scientist named Johann Georg Voldkammer, who discovered it in Naples. It was the Germans who instituted the habit of a cup of hot chocolate before bedtime. With: ANONYMOUS. Lexicon Pharmaceuticum […] composito pro maiori dilucidatione brevissimis surrogata studio Petri Pauli Chianenti[?], manuscript on paper in Italian [northern Italy, perhaps South Tyrol or Trentino- Alto Adige, 1700s]. A fascinating pharmaceutical compendium, perhaps the work of a pharmacist from northern Italy, modelled on the Lexicon Pharmaceuticum of the Frankfurt physician Johann Helfrich Jüngken (1648-1726), and influenced by famous contemporary anatomists, alchemists, and chemists Jacques Dubois (1478-1555), Oswald Croll (1560-1609), Robert Boyle (1627-1691), and Giuseppe Donzelli (1596-1670). 159 x 92 mm, ii + 188 leaves, complete, contemporary pagination 1-376 followed here, headings in red, woodcuts added on pp.177 and 233 (some marginal staining, remnants of an added woodcut on the title-page, the name of the author overwritten in ink). Contemporary vellum (scuffed and stained, shelf-mark label at spine and faded title). Provenance: Rome, Minerva Auctions, 20 June 2019, lot 253. Content: The text begins with a series of recipes for 'waters', such as Donzelli's ophthalmic water, balms, preparations based on Bezoar, and follows with gastronomic recipes, such as for 'biscottini di Savoia' and butiro (butter) with cocoa. Then follow (in alphabetical order) instructions for the calcination of lead, copper, and silver; recipes for a variety of ointments, plasters, extracts, fumenti, syrups, laudanum, oils, pills, powders, sublimates, ointments etc.

Auction archive: Lot number 80
Auction:
Datum:
15 Dec 2021
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
Beschreibung:

Anonymous authors Two medical and pharmaceutical manuscript recipe books, in Latin, German and Italian, on paper and vellum [Germany, 17th century and northern Italy, perhaps Sud Tirol, 1700s] Medical recipe book, in Latin and Renaissance German, manuscript on paper [Germany, 17th century]. An exhaustively detailed alphabetised compendium of German medicinal recipes, including an extremely early one for the preparation of hot chocolate - contemporary to the introduction of cocoa to Germany. 179 x 123mm, i + 195 + i leaves, apparently complete, sporadic pagination to 391, varying number of lines (heavy soiling to opening leaves, marginal staining throughout). Modern white vellum binding. Provenance: (1) The watermark is closely comparable to Briquet 7071, recorded in Veldenz in the Rhineland-Palatinate near Koblenz for 1590. (2) Modern German inscription in pencil on front flyleaf. Content: Medical remedies arranged alphabetically, with running headers A-Z, followed by a miscellaneaous section (p.340), the beginning of an index (p.388); the recipes including ones to cure constipation (p.56); induce diarrhoea and vomiting (p.237); cure syphilis (p.249); an early recipe for hot chocolate (p.346); ‘Gold tinctus’ (p.351 – a medical recipe for gold tincture also discussed in later centuries by Georg Ernst Stahl, Materia Medica. Das ist: Zubereitung, Krafft und Würckung, Derer sonderlich [...], p.28); and a cure for gonorrhea (p.364). Cocoa is said to have been introduced to Germany by a scientist named Johann Georg Voldkammer, who discovered it in Naples. It was the Germans who instituted the habit of a cup of hot chocolate before bedtime. With: ANONYMOUS. Lexicon Pharmaceuticum […] composito pro maiori dilucidatione brevissimis surrogata studio Petri Pauli Chianenti[?], manuscript on paper in Italian [northern Italy, perhaps South Tyrol or Trentino- Alto Adige, 1700s]. A fascinating pharmaceutical compendium, perhaps the work of a pharmacist from northern Italy, modelled on the Lexicon Pharmaceuticum of the Frankfurt physician Johann Helfrich Jüngken (1648-1726), and influenced by famous contemporary anatomists, alchemists, and chemists Jacques Dubois (1478-1555), Oswald Croll (1560-1609), Robert Boyle (1627-1691), and Giuseppe Donzelli (1596-1670). 159 x 92 mm, ii + 188 leaves, complete, contemporary pagination 1-376 followed here, headings in red, woodcuts added on pp.177 and 233 (some marginal staining, remnants of an added woodcut on the title-page, the name of the author overwritten in ink). Contemporary vellum (scuffed and stained, shelf-mark label at spine and faded title). Provenance: Rome, Minerva Auctions, 20 June 2019, lot 253. Content: The text begins with a series of recipes for 'waters', such as Donzelli's ophthalmic water, balms, preparations based on Bezoar, and follows with gastronomic recipes, such as for 'biscottini di Savoia' and butiro (butter) with cocoa. Then follow (in alphabetical order) instructions for the calcination of lead, copper, and silver; recipes for a variety of ointments, plasters, extracts, fumenti, syrups, laudanum, oils, pills, powders, sublimates, ointments etc.

Auction archive: Lot number 80
Auction:
Datum:
15 Dec 2021
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
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