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1. A nievve herball, or, Historie of plantes : wherein is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes, their diuers & sundry kindes, their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes: their names, natures, operations, and vertues, and that not onely of those which are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly used in physicke
- Creator:
- Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585
- Published / Created:
- 1578
- Call Number:
- 2012 +286
- Image Count:
- 32
- Alternative Title:
- Cruydeboeck. English, Nievve herball, Niewe herball, and Historie of plantes
- Description:
- BEIN 2012 +286: 30 cm. Imperfect: woodcut initial excised from p. 574, with slight loss of lettering to p. 573; last two gatherings repaired at bottom, with some loss of text, some of which is supplied in manuscript. This copy has the variant state of leaves *3.4. Ownership inscriptions of Thomas Lane on three pages, one each dated 1673 and 1678, and his initials stamped on binding. Ms. note at end, dated 1638, makes reference to "my Mother Gollop." Presentation bookplate dated 1936 from Mrs. A.G. Hartland to the Hartland Library (Gloucestershire). Stamp with shelf-mark: Gloucestershire Public Library. Annotations in 16th-17th century hands, some trimmed. Small pocket with library cards on front paste-down. Numerous dealers' descriptions for various editions of this text inserted at front. Plant samples pressed in volume., BEIN 2014 +781: 28 cm. Imperfect: P. [24-25], third count, wanting; p. [2-3], third count, and [22-23], third count, mutilated, with loss of text; t.p. mutilated, with slight loss of ornamental border; edges trimmed, with occasional slight loss of text. This copy has the variant state of leaves *3.4. Undeciphered autographs at top edge of t.p., partially lost through trimming. Autograph on t.p.: Wm. Booth 1780. Autograph on p. [9], first count: This herball which you heeare doe see/doth wholly appertaine to mee/for why my monny bought the same/and Richard Drafgate is my name. Unidentifed bookplate on front paste-down: HC. Very occasional ms. notes along outer margin, with heavy loss due to trimming., Signatures: *⁶ ²*⁶ A-3G⁶ 3H-3I⁴ 3K-3X⁶ 3Y⁴ (*3 signed '[fleuron]iij')., Colophon: Imrinted [sic] at Antwerpe, by me Henry Loë bookeprinter, and are to be solde at London in Povvels Churchyarde, by Gerard Devves., A translation of the French translation by Charles de l'Ecluse of: Cruydenboeck., Imprint in two settings. In this setting, second line of imprint begins "by me". Another setting begins "by my" (ESTC S107363)., Variant state of leaves *3.4 present in some copies. *3r has first line of caption title in black letter, the variant state does not. *4r is signed and has catchword "Cubba,", the variant state is not signed and has catchword "Cuba,"., and Includes indexes in Latin and English.
- Publisher:
- By me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne, By me Henry Loë bookeprinter, and are to be solde at London in Povvels Churchyarde, by Gerard Devves)
- Subject (Topic):
- Herbals, Botany, Medical, Botany, Herbs, and Therapeutic use
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A nievve herball, or, Historie of plantes : wherein is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes, their diuers & sundry kindes, their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes: their names, natures, operations, and vertues, and that not onely of those which are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly used in physicke
2. Album of pressed botanical specimens from Norfolk, England : manuscript
- Published / Created:
- 1793.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc217
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 92
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Album containing 73 pressed botanical specimens compiled by an unidentified collector in Norfolk, England, 1793. Each specimen has notes indicating its Latin name, common name, and Linnaean classification. Some notes also include the date of collection, the location of collection, and medicinal uses of the plant
- Description:
- In English and Latin., The album was created in a blank accounts book, and the pages have printed red rules., and Binding: contemporary vellum over boards, with blind tooled ruling; the arms of King George III stamped in gilt on the front and back covers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, England, and Norfolk
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
- Subject (Topic):
- Botanical specimens, Collection and preservation, Flowers, Herbs, and Plants
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Album of pressed botanical specimens from Norfolk, England : manuscript
3. Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1490; 1800]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 21
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment and paper, written in two parts. Part I (parchment, written ca. 1490): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Descriptions of various herbs. Part II (paper, added ca. 1800): 3) Alchemy. 4) Recipes for making Prussian Blue, in Italian
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian., Script: Part I (ff. 1-40): Written by one hand in a neat, minute humanistic cursive. Part II (ff. 41-52): In an Italian hand., Part I: Headings in red throughout, that on f. 1r overwritten in an intense red ink covering earlier writing in pale red ink, the intense ink then used for the remainder of the headings in this portion of the codex, and the overwriting probably by the original scribe. Plain, small, roman capitals at beginnings of sections of the text in blue or green; a large initial "D" and a full border no f. 1r, as well as a smaller initial "L" at the beginning of the second book of text, foot of f. 25r, all finely illuminated in gold and colors in the "white-vine" style, the lower part of the border on f. 1r with a coat of arms consisting of a shield azure, a bear rampant or. Part II: Undecorated., and Binding: Late eighteenth century, probably French. Speckled calf, the sides undecorated, the repaired back in compartments with gilt tooling, the original title-stamping defective, speckled edges; restored by Carolyn Horton, November 1955.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Prussian blue
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
4. Baldwin's herbal tonic mixture Nature's general restorer of the system ... [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [between 1895 and 1910]
- Call Number:
- Poster0681
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Date from copy in Wellcome Collection, website viewed 7/25/2023: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/axs2d89j, G. Baldwin was based at 77 Walworth Road, London. It is still in business at 173 Walworth Road., Above title: "The Lord causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herbs for the service of man." Psalm CIV.14., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Publisher:
- G. Baldwin
- Subject (Topic):
- Patent medicines, Herbs, and Therapeutic use
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Baldwin's herbal tonic mixture Nature's general restorer of the system ... [graphic]
5. Herbal in prose and verse
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400-1425]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 46
- Image Count:
- 114
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an herbal in prose and verse. The volume opens with two Middle English poems, showing traces of East Anglian dialect, describing a variety of herbs and their medicinal properties, as well as accepted cures and prescriptions for a number of ailments. These are followed by Middle English and Latin prose texts also concerning herbal medicine
- Description:
- In Middle English and Latin., Laid in: parchment fragment probably recovered from earlier binding., Layout: single columns of 33 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: some initials, headings and words in red ink., and Binding: modern vellum boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry, English prose literature, Herbals, Herbs, Therapeutic use, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Herbal in prose and verse
6. Herbarius latinus : with Dutch synonyms
- Creator:
- Herbarius
- Published / Created:
- about 1485].
- Image Count:
- 352
- Description:
- Med: Contemporary South German binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
- Publisher:
- Jan Veldener
- Subject (Topic):
- Herbs, Botany, Medical, and Materia medica
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Herbarius latinus : with Dutch synonyms
7. Macer Floridus
- Creator:
- Macer, Floridus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200; 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 823
- Image Count:
- 56
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, composed in two parts of different age and origin, of 1) Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung, c. 1070), De viribus herbarum. 2) Fragments of a Missal: (a) Third Sunday of Lent. (b) Saturday after the first Sunday of Lent. (c) Second Sunday of Lent
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-10): copied by one hand writing Praegothica with wide distance between the lines. Part II (ff. 11-22): copied by one hand in Gothico-Humanistica Libraria., Part I: red chapter headings in larger script written at the right of the text. Red paragraph marks. Red heightening of majuscules on ff. 1r and 10 v only. 2-line (exceptionally 1- or 3-line) early flourished initials in red with red flourishing (red filling on f. 10r). 5-line red, blue and white initial with strapwork decoration on f. 1r. Part II: chapter headings in red, centered. Red 2-line plain initials (Capitalis)., Part II adapted to the size of Part I by pasting strips of parchment to the bottom of the bifolios. The five outer bifolios (ff. 11-15 and 18-22) are palimpsest: leaves from a manuscript in two columns, the text transversal to the textus rescriptus; the inner bifolium (ff. 16-17) is of bad quality; the upper corners of ff. 11 and 22 are missing with loss of text and have been repaired with blank parchment., and Binding: 20th century. Wooden boards and brown calf spine. Endleaves are fragments of a Missal (Italy, 15th century).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Macer, Floridus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Herbs, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Science, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Macer Floridus
8. Medical and alchemical miscellany and herbal
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 9
- Image Count:
- 671
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of the compilation of a physician interested in medicine, alchemy, and herbs. Includes three texts by Krisean z Prachatic, a physician, herbalist, and teacher of Prague University; Albicus, De regimine sanitatis, a treatise on the treatment of paralysis and the plague; Albicus, Regimen for King Wenceslaus of Bohemia (1361-1419); several alphabets of general scientific terms in Latin with Czech and/or German equivalents; Latin names of herbs with Czech and sometimes Polish equivalents; John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie; and hundreds of medical and alchemical recipes
- Description:
- In Latin, Czech, German, transliterated Arabic, and Polish., Script: The greater part of the manuscript (except the unnumbered quires 15-19) written by a single hand in a clear, round, and steady Gothica cursiva. Quires 15-19 written in a similar but more pointed and flowing hand, sometimes more condensed, similarly decorated., Headings, foliation, rubrics, and capital strokes in red., and Binding: Probably original. Brown calf, the covers ruled with triple parallel lines to a pattern of four rectangles within a rectangle, the larger rectangle crossed with similar ruling; indications of five center and corner pieces on each cover, possibly of iron and certainly fastened with iron nails, now lost; indications of two missing clasps and catches at the fore-edges of the covers; heavily repaired at fore-edges, hinges, and backstrip, the original back divided into four compartments by five heavy double bands, a modern morocco label in the second compartment from the top gold-stamped between double gold rules top and bottom: "ALCHEMICAL-MEDICAL | MISCELLANY | - | MANUSCRIPT | MIDDLE EUROPE | XVTH CENTURY".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Herbs, Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Medical and alchemical miscellany and herbal
9. Quam gratos moriens tumulo exhalabis odores?... [graphic].
- Creator:
- Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16th century]
- Call Number:
- Print00923
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., From: Francisci Petrarche, Trostspiegel in Glück und Unglück, Frankfurt am Main: Egenolff., Containing volume has editions of 1566, 1574, 1584., Woodcut is attributed to Hans Weiditz. Formerly attributed to Hans, Illustration for Cap. XXII, page 19., Trimmed within inscription., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
- Subject (Topic):
- Drugstores, Smell, Flowers, Fruit, Plants, Herbs, Perfumes, and Pharmacists
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Quam gratos moriens tumulo exhalabis odores?... [graphic].
