This manuscript of 182 leaves can be dated to the last quarter of
the 15th century and can be placed in the area between Ulm and
Memmingen (linguistically Swabian). The binding, made of wooden
boards covered in leather and featuring a clasp, was made by a
bookbinder who was active in Memmingen. The three treatises in the
manuscript are from the field of pharmacology/medical science: the
“Büchlein der Ordnung der Pestilenz” (2r-47v) by Heinrich
Steinhöwel, the Ulmer Wundarznei (50r-144r) and “Von den
gebrannten Wässern” by Michael Puff (147r-179v). The text is
augmented with drawings of instruments (96v, 97r, 98v, 99r, 148v).
Magnus Bengger (who names himself on 179v) should be considered the
scribe; he also copied manuscript Schaffhausen Gen. 9, which
likewise contains medical works. He uses a cursiva libraria. In
several places, drolleries in the shape of faces spread from
individual letters, always in the first line (e.g., 45v, 50r). The
chapter titles, the (decorated) initials at the beginning of a
chapter, dots at half-height, as well as individual, usually Latin
words in the text generally are rubricated. Sentence-initial
lexemes, however, are marked by Lombard initials in red. In keeping
with the character of a medical housebook, to which one can add
one’s own recipes, there are additions by four other hands
(mostly between or after the treatises, such as 48r, 145r, 180r).
