Herbals: 16th cent.
- Date:
- Middle 16th century
- Reference:
- MS.339
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Herbal with water-colour drawings of plants, and text partly in Latin, partly in Italian. The illustrations on fol. 22 are damaged. There are 50 illustrations of plants. Some added receipts, etc. by later hands. This MS. is apparently a fragment of a larger work.
Publication/Creation
Middle 16th century
Physical description
1 volume 38 ll. 4to. 201/2 x 141/2 cm. Modern boards. Several of the lower margins are damaged and repaired.
Arrangement
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Acquisition note
Purchased 1923.
Finding aids
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).
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 42836