Bruxelles

1671 · I17E1NCA7M49 — Brussels 1671. Folio. Pierre Hacquebaud Contemporary calf; rebacked with part of the original gold-tooled backstrip laid down. 1 1 blank 8 237 15 pp. Second revised and enlarged edition of the Brussels pharmacopoeia. Brussels had begun discussing plans to establish a Collegium Medicum ca. 1605 but failed to do so. A 1636 plague however incited city magistrates to compile a pharmacopoeia and they commissioned four leading city physicians Joannes Jocquet Paulus de Hullegarde Ludovicus Fabri and Joannes De Lau not mentioned on the title-page but acknowledged by name in the preliminaries to compile the present Brussels pharmacopoeia which appeared in 1641. No apothecaries were officially consulted in the compilation of the Brussels pharmacopoeia reflecting the growing status of physicians and declining status of apothecaries. Amsterdam had produced the first official pharmacopoeia in the Low Countries in 1636 based in part on Valerius but the Brussels physicians chose to take the 1638 Paris Codex medicamentarius Parisiensis as their principal model.With an ownership inscription by "Franciscus" dated 1716 on the paste-down and title-page and a another inscription below the colophon possibly in a different hand noting that the book was a gift from Louis Riqueur ca. 1655-1737 apothecary of King Philip V of Spain. Binding damaged at the sides and heavily restored at the spine and extremities. With a few spots and many wormholes throughout; lacking the engraved title-page; a fair copy.l Anet 1 copy; Daems & Vandewiele pp. 71-72 5 copies plus 1 manuscript version; Krivatsy 8908; STCV 2 copies; Wellcome IV p. 357. unknown