Recueil de touttes sorte de Chansons sur différens airs anciens et nouveaux. (Followed by) Recueil de Chansons choisies: première (et seconde) partie (Incomplete)

This very miscellaneous collection contains love songs, drinking songs, and political verses. There are poems in praise of coffee on pp. 56, 57, 124-127, 174-178, the last two dated 1711, 199-204, 330: and of chocolate on pp. 85, 86. There are a few medical poems: 'Le goutteux' (p. 384), 'Recepte pour avoir le teint beau' (p. 385), 'Remède pour le mal des dents' (p. 403), 'Recepte pour engraisser' (pp. 411, 412), 'Le malade' (p. 428). On the outside of both covers is written the name 'David Rodriguez. 1777'.

c. 1715

1 volume 452 pp. 4to. 20 × 151/2 cm. Original vellum binding. Spine damaged. A title-page, pp. 233-264, and all after p. 452 wanting. Pp. 280-299 have been dropped in the pagination.

Purchased 1928.

Phillipps MS. 2960, with his Library-stamp on p. 10.

Database description transcribed from 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).