Herbals: 16th cent.

Description of herbs, plants, and other substances used in medicine, arranged according to qualities: in English. Written in a clear secretary hand. The work is divided into 'Medicines of temperat hete', 'Medicines hote and drye', 'Medicines colde and drye', 'Medicines of metalles', and 'Medicines of the parts of beastes'. The paper is water-marked with Briquet's No. 11370 which is assigned to Dordrecht 1545.

Middle 16th century

1 volume 5 ll. (last 3 bl.). + 127 pp. + 18 ll. (last 4 bl.). folio. 291/2 x 20 cm. Original calf gilt binding, both ties wanting.

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 1932.

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).

MS. No. 341 contains a similar text, perhaps written somewhat earlier, but is incomplete.