Medicus Sinicus and Receptarum Sinensium Liber. About finding of Michael Boym’s medical manuscripts

Abstract

In this article the Author presented – because of the necessity, in abbreviated form – the circumstances of the disappearance of medical manuscripts of one of the seventeenth-century pioneers of European sinology Michael Boym, and the circumstances of finding them in the collections of the former Prussian Library in Berlin. Some of these manuscripts has recently been found among Chinese manuscripts in the library of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. The author has found several Chinese books, which served Boym to write his works about Chinese medicine.