Herbals: 16th cent.

Series of coloured drawings of plants, with names in German or Latin. Followed by notes on urology and miscellaneous medical receipts in German. The illustrations are carefully drawn and natural representations, probably copied from a middle 16th cent. German herbal. On the last leaf is a prayer in German, dated 1802.

Late 16th century

1 volume 53 ll. + 38 ll. + 17 bl. ll. + 2 ll. 4to. 20 x 161/2 cm. Modern boards.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1924.

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).