Coleção GB 0120 MSS.4025, 4026 - Quatroux, Isaac (fl 1671)

2 volumes

An anonymous note on a fly-leaf to the 'Antidotaire' states: 'le manuscrit ... provient de la Bibliothèque de Hemptinne (i.e. Auguste Donat de Hemptienne [1781-1854]), professor of chemistry at Brussels University) dont le vente a eu lieu à Bruxelles en 1884'. On the main title-page and on the frontispiece of the 'Antidotaire', a printed exlibris in red has been erased, though the word 'Rotterdam' is still legible.

GB 0120 MSS.4025, 4026 1662-1663 Collection 2 volumes Quatroux , Isaac (fl 1671)

The author's name is given in the 'Préface Au Lecteur' in verse in the first volume: 'Isaac le Pharmacien' in line 23, and 'Quatroux' in line 41. The last line also gives the name of the Scribe, Maillet, 'qui pour Quatroux et plein de passion Son livre ayant escrit avec affection'. Quatroux is the author of a 'Traité de la peste', published in Paris in 1671.

An anonymous note on a fly-leaf to the 'Antidotaire' states: 'le manuscrit ... provient de la Bibliothèque de Hemptinne (i.e. Auguste Donat de Hemptienne [1781-1854]), professor of chemistry at Brussels University) dont le vente a eu lieu à Bruxelles en 1884'. On the main title-page and on the frontispiece of the 'Antidotaire', a printed exlibris in red has been erased, though the word 'Rotterdam' is still legible.

Purchased 1933.

Le Pharmacien accomply. Ou le Cabinet pharmaceutique. Contenant des moyens familières et facilles pour bien connoistre, distinguer et médicamenter les maladies ordinaires et extraordinaires qui peuvent arriver à l'homme, tant par préceptes astrologiques et Galénistes que par remèdes chymiques. Avec l'Antidotaire. Le tout reduict en ordre pour suppléer au véritable Médecin, et mis en pratique par F[rère] Is[aac] Q[uatroux] R[éligieux] M[édecin] or[dre] M[inime]. These MSS., now divided into two volumes, formed originally one volume. There is a pen-drawn historiated frontispiece to the 'Antidotaire': texts within black rules. The Antidotire is dated 1662, the other volume 1663.

As set out above in Scope and Content.

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

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

French

2 vols. folio. 30 × 201/2 cm. Modern boards.

Described in: 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).

Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

November 2008 Quatroux , Isaac , fl 1671 Astrology Chemistry Spiritualism Therapy Therapeutics Pharmacology Pharmacy Culture Medicine, traditional Mysticism Medical sciences Literature Literary forms and genres Recipes Chemical actions and uses Specialty uses of chemicals Protective agents Antidotes

Purchased 1933.

Le Pharmacien accomply. Ou le Cabinet pharmaceutique. Contenant des moyens familières et facilles pour bien connoistre, distinguer et médicamenter les maladies ordinaires et extraordinaires qui peuvent arriver à l'homme, tant par préceptes astrologiques et Galénistes que par remèdes chymiques. Avec l'Antidotaire. Le tout reduict en ordre pour suppléer au véritable Médecin, et mis en pratique par F[rère] Is[aac] Q[uatroux] R[éligieux] M[édecin] or[dre] M[inime]. These MSS., now divided into two volumes, formed originally one volume. There is a pen-drawn historiated frontispiece to the 'Antidotaire': texts within black rules. The Antidotire is dated 1662, the other volume 1663.

As set out above in Scope and Content.

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

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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Described in: 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).

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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