Antidotarium Nicolai, A glossary of medicinal plants, Hexameters containing medical precepts — 14th century, first half; Italy
MS. Add. A. 7
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Antidotarium Nicolai, A glossary of medicinal plants, Hexameters containing medical precepts — 14th century, first half; Italy
Medical treatise (antidotary) — 12th century, first half; Italy
Roger de Baron — 13th or 14th century; Italy
Shelfmark
MS. Add. A. 7
Place of origin
Italy
Date
13th or 14th century
12th century, first half
14th century, first half
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment, paper
Physical extent
ii + 162leaves
Binding
Black leather on boards with blind tooling, clasp lost, Italian work (15th century). Resewn.
Acquisition
Bought for £2 10s at Sotheby's on 20-21 June 1860, lot 254, along with eight other manuscripts'formerly in the archives of two princely Roman families'
Provenance
Fol. i verso: 'Nicolaus maior et minor [i.e. 'Antidotarium magnum et parvum'] magistri Simonis Cinozi (?) de Florentia | fl. 3 [then, added] et autor qui dicitur larugerina pratica bona'. Magister Simon Cinozi (?) (14th or 15th century) seems to have owned the whole manuscript
A series of numbers, 'no. 26', no. '27' and no. '29' (18th century) refer to a library (label on the spine)
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