Herbals: 16th cent.

Nine water-colour sketches of medicinal plants. The sketches are executed in natural colours, but the margins have been cropped in binding. The names only are given.

Late 16th century

1 volume 9 ll. folio. 271/2 x 19 cm. On vellum, modern boards.

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 1915.

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).