Macer Floridus, De Viribus Herbarum and a Leechbook containing 162 medical recipes, in Middle English and Latin, including Middle English verse, decorated manuscript on vellum 99 leaves, 167mm. by 127mm., complete, collation: i-viii8, ix6, x-xii8, xiii5 (i a singleton), horizontal catchwords and remnants of early foliation in upper right-hand corner, written space 125mm. by 88mm., single column, 26-30 lines in black ink in a single anglicana hand, titles and rubrics in red, numerous 2- 45-line blue initials with elaborate red penwork, small cutting from lower outer border of fol. 1, with no loss to text, some minor staining to a few leaves, small tear to base of fol. 66, some sixteenth- and seventeenth-century additions (those on endleaves entirely covering those leaves), else in excellent condition, endleaves recovered from an early printed works (those used as short stubs at back from a Latin word list with translations into English: entries for 'D'), binding of early seventeenth century, probably Oxford, reversed calf over pasteboards, with triple fillet and diagonal hatching at head and foot of spine, remains of two fastening-tags, in fitted green-cloth covered case
Macer Floridus, De Viribus Herbarum and a Leechbook containing 162 medical recipes, in Middle English and Latin, including Middle English verse, decorated manuscript on vellum 99 leaves, 167mm. by 127mm., complete, collation: i-viii8, ix6, x-xii8, xiii5 (i a singleton), horizontal catchwords and remnants of early foliation in upper right-hand corner, written space 125mm. by 88mm., single column, 26-30 lines in black ink in a single anglicana hand, titles and rubrics in red, numerous 2- 45-line blue initials with elaborate red penwork, small cutting from lower outer border of fol. 1, with no loss to text, some minor staining to a few leaves, small tear to base of fol. 66, some sixteenth- and seventeenth-century additions (those on endleaves entirely covering those leaves), else in excellent condition, endleaves recovered from an early printed works (those used as short stubs at back from a Latin word list with translations into English: entries for 'D'), binding of early seventeenth century, probably Oxford, reversed calf over pasteboards, with triple fillet and diagonal hatching at head and foot of spine, remains of two fastening-tags, in fitted green-cloth covered case
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