Previously Goodhart 91 Marginal notations in the same hand throughout Binding: Original parchment binding, single sheet folded at top and bottom and sewn with thread, outside of spine reinforced with leather strip sewn to parchment Layout: Single column, twenty-four ruled lines with single vertical and upper horizontal bounding lines and double lower horizontal bounding lines, full across in ink; prickings visible in all three outer margins Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata Decoration: Three- or four-line initials with red penwork flourishes marking text divisions; smaller two-line initials and paragraph markers in red throughout Related resource: Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 435, no. 14. Related resource: Goltz, Dietlinde. Mittelalterliche pharmazie und medizin: dargest. an geschichte und inhalt des Antidotarium Nicolai, (Stuttgart, 1976). Provenance: The text is attributed to Nicholas of Salerno (Nicolaus Salernitanus), an Italian physician, and was composed in the first half of the twelfth century; this copy probably written in England, in the last quarter of the fourteenth century; early provenance unknown; on fol. 33v, bookplate of "Hale of Alderly," Gloucester, England, dated '41; purchased from Maggs (typed description on...
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