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Italian herbal
Title
Italian herbal.
Created
Italy ; between 1300 and 1499.
Physical Description
1 item (152 leaves) : parchent, ill. ; 2oo mm x 150 mm.
Language
Italian
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Script: documentary hands.
Layout: single column of varying length.
Decoration: 16 botanical drawings: herba alebro biancho (f. 28r), herba pinpinella maiore (f. 28v), herba ceredonia (f. 29r), herba berthonica (f. 29v), herba coriola (f. 30r), herba lunaria minore (f. 30v), herba astologia rotonda (f. 31r), herba oculorum Christi (f. 31v), herba greiima (f. 32r), herba poliponice (f. 32v), herba trefolgi (f. 33r), herba rebarrum (f. 33v), herba siillo di santa maria (f. 34r), herba mandragola femena (f. 34v), herba madragola mascolo (f. 35r), herba dicta tirmitella (f. 35v), unidentified herb (f. 39v). Herbal rubricated.
Binding: bound in modern vellum over paper boards.
Pagination added in modern pencil.
In Italian.
Provenance
Purchased by Yale Medical School Library in 1960 from William P. Wreden booksellers.
Summary
Illuminated manuscript herbal, on parchment, in several unidentified hand, containing a herbal in Italian (ff. 1r-49v), incipit: L'erba dicta astrologia o vere aristolatia... Followed by a collection of medical recipes in Italian (ff. 50r-152v), incipit: ungue[n]to da fare. Includes 16 botanical drawings in colored ink.
Variant and related titles
Herbal : in Italian ; followed by Medical recipes (on leaves 51-152)
Other formats
Also available on microfilm.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Faye, C. and Bond, W. Supplement to the Census, 1962, page 63, 49
Subjects
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Italy.
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