The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 26053

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9955

Shelfmark:

mssHM 26053

Title:

Herbal and medical tracts

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 104. ; 210 x 145 mm

Note:

Herbal and medicat tracts written in England in the second half of the fifteenth century. Includes pastedowns from a thirteenth century English antiphonal.
Span folios: ff. 1-104v. Support: Paper. Watermark(s): Similar to Briquet Lettre Y 9183, Brittany 1475; Tête de boeuf 14193, Antwerp 1464-66; Tête de boeuf 14237, Namur 1474. Layout: 1-312(through f. 36) 410 5-812 910. No catchwords. On the first 3 quires the leaves are signed a-f and the indication of quire may follow in either roman or arabic numerals (a, b, c, . . . ; aii, bii . . . ; a3...
Space reserved for opening initials, 3- and 2-line. 1-line initials and initials within the text filled in yellow.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/20/2012.
On the upper margin of f. 1, "Smith Lo./ [...?] I22 [...?]" corrected to "I12" [?]. In the collection of the Tollemache family of Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, who began collecting at the turn of the seventeenth century. N. 16 in the old Helmingham catalogue; small paper label on the front pastedown "L.J.VI.21" corrected to "L.J.IV." For a brief history of the Tollemache collection, see the...

Keyword:

formularies

manuscripts (documents)

herbals (reference sources)

Herbals

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862187

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49521/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens