MS.34

Tractatus septem herbarum. [Anon.]. De herba lunaria. [Anon.] De auro potabili. Medical receipts. The first work is written in an informal semi-current italic hand 26 lines to a page; the remainder in a neat humanistic book-hand 36 lines to a page. A few initials in red. Fol. 1 In christi nomine amen.///Incipit tractatus. vii. herbarum alexandri [struck through, and superscribed by a 17th cent. hand 'Alberti']/magni./[H]Ic septem herbas et ipsarum. vii./uirtutes habemus ... 3v ... Et utere eis.//Explicit libellus septem herbarum sep/tem planetarum deo gratias amen. 4 HErba lunaria facit gambam altam/fere per tria brachia... 6 Et ista mi pater charissime habeatis qua/si de huiusmodi herba poteratis habere. 6v Ad guttam. (Receipt in Italian.) 7v In christi nomine///[A]urum potabile sic fit. R solis uel lune/in panicellis quantum uis... 11 ... Egritudi/nibus omnibus subuenit Si sciueritis uti. 11v Medical receipts in Latin. This MS. at one time must have formed part of a larger volume, as the leaves are foliated 74-93 by a 17th cent. hand.

22 ll. (last 8 bl.). 8vo. 22 x 14 1/2 cm. Unbound.; leaf dimensions: width cm, length cm; written dimensions: width cm, length cm

Purchased 1923.

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