Medical recipes. Imago mundi... [etc.]

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Title: Medical recipes. Imago mundi... [etc.]
Alternative Title: Medical recipes [in English] ; Imago mundi de Asia, Africa et Europa: Asia a regiam [in Latin]
Imago mundi de Asia
Contributor: Honorius, Augustodunensis, approximately 1080-approximately 1156
Aemilius Macer
Published / Created: between 1400 and 1450.
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, in two unidentified hands, written on paper (leaves 1-92) and parchment (leaves 93-102). Contains medical recipes and lists of herbs in Middle English (incipit: Here begynne goode medecynes; ff. 5-71), French provers in verse (incipit: Ce sont les proverbes des philosophes), Macer's De virtutibus herbarum (ff. 76-92), Honorius Augustodunensis' Imago mundi (f. 93-100).
Description: In Middle English, Middle French, and Latin.
Title assigned by cataloger.
Script: gothic cursiva.
Decoration: some two-line initials in red ink. Rubrication.
Layout: single column of 48-56 lines.
Binding: contemporary wooden boards portion of back cover missing.
Watermark is a variant of Briquet 5353 (Bologna 1432) and Briquet 5351 (Sienna 1410).
Provenance: Purchased in 1959 from H. P. Kraus, booksellers of New York, (number 6809). Presented in 1959 by Lucia P. Fulton to the Yale Medical School Library.
Extent: 1 item (102 leaves) : 220 mm x 145 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)
Latin
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Material: paper and parchment ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Topic): Cosmology
Medicine
Manuscripts
Medicine, Medieval
Subjects: Cosmology > Early works to 1800
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval > Early works to 1800
Medicine > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions > Early works to 1800

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