Herbals: 17th cent.
- Date:
- Middle 17th century
- Reference:
- MS.344
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Collection of illustrations of plants, a few coloured.
Some of the illustrations have been roughly coloured in water-colour, the remainder drawn in red or brown ink.
The MS. is probably of Italian origin.
The names are given in Latin, Greek, and Arabic, but many have the name in one, or two of these languages only.
A few of the plants have short references in Latin, mostly to Dioscorides or Matthiolus.
Publication/Creation
Middle 17th century
Physical description
1 volume 790 pp. folio. 281/2 X cm. 21 Modern half vellum binding. Inner margin of the first leaf, and some leaves at the end defective and repaired. The t.p. and probably some leaves at the end are wanting.
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 1920.
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).
Language note
Greek
Subjects
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 40667