MS.34

Tractatus septem herbarum. [Anon.]. De herba lunaria. [Anon.] De auro potabili. Medical receipts.

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.

Material: paper; 22 ll. (last 8 bl.). 8vo.; leaf dimensions: width 14.5 cm, length 22 cm

Purchased 1923.

A.The first work is written in an informal semi-current italic hand

B.The remainder is written in a neat humanistic book-hand