Herbals: 16th cent.

Description of herbs, plants and other substances used in medicine, arranged according to qualities: in English. (Incomplete.) The sections on mineral and animal substances and the Indices are missing. This MS. is possibly an earlier text of MS. No. 340. The water-mark on the paper is similar, but has not been identified in Briquet. The last leaf contains a few medical receipts in English by an Elizabethan hand.

Middle 16th century

1 volume 36 ll. folio. 31 x 211/2 cm. Upper cover in vellum of the original binding only. The MS. has been re-foliated in pencil. By comparison with the complete text in MS. No. 340, the following leaves are wanting: After fol. 8, probably 9 ll.: after fol. 14, probably 3 ll.: after fol. 24, probably 1 leaf: after fol. 29, 1 leaf: and all after fol. 36. Leaves 18, 29, 33 are damaged or mutilated, corners frayed.

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Purchased 1928.

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).

Phillipps MS. No. 8879. Sold at Sotheby's (Phillipps Sale) 8/6/1910, Lot 559.