Herbals: 16th cent.

Series of 101 coloured drawings of plants, with names in German.

Middle 16th century

1 volume 102 ll. (last bl.) 4to. 21 x 15 cm. Original limp vellum covers with flap, loop and button. The last leaf has about an inch of the outer margin cut away. Modern German names have been inserted by an early 19th cent. hand.

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).