MS.4103

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.

Greece, Northern Greece, 1697 A.D.

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

Purchased on behalf of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at Sotheby's sale, London, 17 February 1936, lot 97 (accession number 69261).

Unidentified post-Byzantine hand.

(not before 1836, not after 1936): Owned by Sir Algernon Methuen.