Hermann's Lectures on Materia Medica

Same handwriting throughout. The manuscript bears no date, nor is the name of the writer known.

Late 17th century

215 folios 4to. 23 × 18 cm. Old calf binding, rebacked. Paged 1-414.

The lectures here reported, however, are known to have been delivered by Paul Hermann, Professor of Botany at Leiden, and author of Paradisus Batavus.

Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).

On fly-leaf: "Ex Bibliotheca Askeviana. P. ii. Art. 385. J. SIMS."