Special Collections Materials at Columbia
- Antonii Thylesii Cosentini Libellus de coloribus.: Vbi multa leguntur praeter aliorum opinionem byCall Number: RBML B535.6 T4291Publication Date: 1528
- Lazari Bayfii annotationes in legem II De captiuis & postliminio reuersis, in quibus tractatur de re nauali, per authorem recognitæ. Eivsdem annotationes in tractatum De auro & argento legato, quibus vestimentorum & vasculorum genera explicantur. His omni byCall Number: RBML B359 B149Publication Date: 1541
Sefer Refu'os u-Segulos book of remedies and incantations
Call Number: MS Gen 262Publication Date: 15th Century, ItalyRecord book of the Pharmacy of St. Paul by
Call Number: Health Sciences Special Collection RS11.I8 P53 1590Publication Date: 1590Contains multiple prescriptions written by several Italian physicians in the 16th century.Plimpton MS 115
Call Number: Plimpton MS 115Publication Date: 1450-1475Italian manuscript with several recipes including: Recipe for pills against the plague as proved in the camp of the Duke of Urbino in Lombardy (according to final lines); recipe for an ointment to be applied every morning, so that "te farra parere sempremai giovene e bella e polita"; recipe which was supposedly revealed by St. Dominic to a woman in Sicily (lines 20-21), to be used against scrofula.Smith Western MS 34
Call Number: Smith Western MS 34Publication Date: 1640-166017th-century Italian commercial arithmetic text with recipe in cipher (numbers in place of vowels) on how to pass kidney stones.Smith Med/Ren Frag. 19 by
Call Number: Smith Med/Ren Frag. 19Publication Date: 13th centuryThis small fragment featuring medical recipes and prayers is written in Anglican script, probably in 13th century England.RBML X615.R24
Call Number: RBML X615.R24Publication Date: 16th centuryManuscripts fragments of 16th-century German medical recipes.Montgomery MS 03 by
Call Number: Montgomery MS 03Publication Date: 1585-1599This account book includes handwritten recipes for treating colic and gout.Plimpton MS 077 by
Call Number: Plimpton MS 077Publication Date: 1300-1315German breviary with handwritten recipe for pills and dosage.Plimpton MS 167
Call Number: Plimpton MS 167Publication Date: 15th centuryMiscellaneous Tuscan manuscript written in mercantesca script; includes arithmetical problems, horoscope charts (featured in this thumbnail image) and various medical recipes as well as a medical treatise by Arnold of Villa Nova.- Sefer ha-Maʻalot byCall Number: RBML MS X893 F841Publication Date: 17th centuryFragment from a pharmaceutical lexicon. The Latin names of the various herbs are arranged in alphabetical order (Hebrew). They are followed by a description of their nature, their uses and the method of their preparation with other substances. The medicaments are grouped in degrees (מעלות). Our Ms. has preserved parts of the first and second, the beginning and the end of the third, and the beginning of the fourth.
A dictionary of chemistry. Containing the theory and practice of that science: its application to natural philosophy, natural history, medicine, and animal economy ... by
Call Number: RBML B540.3 M24 v. 1-3Publication Date: 1777The 2d ed. To which is added, as an appendix, A treatise on the various kinds of permanently elastic fluids, or gases [by James Keir] ...- De secretis libri XVII : ex variis authoribus collecti, methodiceq́ue digesti, & aucti byCall Number: RBML AG103 .W5 1588Publication Date: 1588Derived in part from the work attributed to Alessio Piemontese, the pseudonym of Girolamo Ruscelli, the first ed. of which bore the title: De' secreti del reverendo donno Alessio Piemontese sei libri. Venezia, S. Bordogna, 1555. First translated into Latin and published, with additions by Wecker, under title: D. Alexeii Pedemontani De secretis libri sex ... Ex italico in latinum sermone[m] nunc primum translati per J.J. Weckerum. Basileae, 1559.
- Sundrie nevv and artificiall remedies against famine byCall Number: RBML SELIGMAN 1596E P69Publication Date: 1596An abstract of certaine frugall notes, or obseruations in a time of Dearth or famine, concerning bread, drink, and meate, with some other circumstances belonging to the same, taken out of a Latin writer, intituling his booke, Anchora famis & sitis.
- Le nouveau recueil de curiositez rares & nouvelles des plus admirables effets de la nature & de l'art. Composé de quantité de beaux secrets galans & autres dont quelques-uns ont été tirez du cabinet de feu Monsieur le marquis de l'Hôpital ... Expéri byCall Number: RBML AG104 .L5Publication Date: 1585
- Het verbetert en vermeerdert natuurlyk toover-boek, of 't Nieuw speel-toneel der konsten : verhandelende ontrent sestien-honderd natuurlijke tover-konsten, soo uyt den goochel-tas, als kaart-speelen, mathematische konsten, ook de verligtteikenkunde en afz byCall Number: RBML ND1259 .B3Publication Date: 1698
- A plain plantain; country wines, dishes & herbal cures, from a 17th century household M. S. receipt book: arranged, with various details byCall Number: RBML BOOKART 017.En2 Sa2 1922APublication Date: 1922The book from which the recipes are taken is a manuscript inscribed Madam Susanna Avery, her book, May ye 12th Anno Domini, 1688.
- Natural Magick ... in twenty books : Wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the Natural Sciences byCall Number: RBML B502 P831Publication Date: 1658A translation of Magiae naturalis libri XX.