Compendium

Compendium accuratissimum virtutum ac potentiarum plantarum, fruticum et arborum ex doctissimis autoribus, plantae spirituum et demonum, linum, psyllium, viola, apium, coriandrum, hiosciarum [sic] [hiosciamum?], cicuta, canna feva [sic] [faba?], tassus barbassus. The title, as given above, and a number of entries in the text are in cypher, a key to which has been inserted.

c. 1625

1 volume 60 ll. (first & last bl.). 141/2 x 10 cm. Original calf binding.

Purchased 1931.

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).