EL RECETARIO IMPAGADO DE UN RECTOR DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID EN EL SIGLO XVI* A PAD OF UNPAID PRESCRIPTIONS OF A CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

RESUMEN: El trabajo que presentamos tiene como objeto fundamental la edicion y estudio de las recetas halladas en un pleito litigado en el tribunal de la Chancilleria de Valladolid, al que llegaron porque Felix de Manzanedo, rector de la Universidad y Oidor del citado tribunal, no se las pago al boticario Francisco de Madrid ni a su viuda, Maria de Ayala, que es quien reclama la deuda y demando al catedratico. A traves del analisis de las recetas se pueden conocer los nombres de dos de los medicos mas importantes de Valladolid en el siglo XVI, Juan de Penaranda y Pedro Enriquez, asi como el conocimiento que tienen, tanto ellos como el boticario que las expende, de las sustancias medicinales y el modo en que se preparan y combinan en los anos medios del siglo. ABSTRACT: The present paper aims to offer an edition and study of some prescriptions included in a sixteenth-century lawsuit litigated in the Real Chancilleria of Valladolid. Maria of Ayala, the widow of the apothecary Francisco of Madrid, sued Felix Manzanedo, chancellor of the University of Valladolid and magistrate in the aforesaid court, because he had failed to pay his long-standing debt to the apothecary, and she substantiated her claim with the prescriptions his deceased husband kept. By studying these prescriptions it becomes possible to ascertain the names of two of Valladolid’s most prestigious doctors in the mid-sixteenth century: Juan of Penaranda and Pedro Enriquez. They give us also an insight into the knowledge that both the doctors and the apothecary had of the active ingredient of medications and into their ability to prepare and combine those ingredients in their efforts to create effective treatments.