Bartholomaeus Salernitanus

Practica zu Deutsch (incomplete). The work is written in a North German dialect. Written in a neat rounded gothic hand, 24-31 lines to a page. Ornamental initial in red on first leaf-some capitals and paragraph marks in red. The water-mark-a pair of callipers [?]-has not been traced in Briquet.

f. 1r [D]iss buch nembet ein meister des nam was Bartholomaus vnd nam es usser eine buch da heisset barratica [sic].... 39v (Section headed 'Von scherling') ... den enhisset weder wurm nach nat-[uram?].

Mid 15th Century

1 volume 80pp. 4to 201/2 x 15 cm. Unbound. The tenth leaf (pp. 19/20) is wanting: last leaf damaged. The margins of the first nine leaves have been cut, other margins and corners frayed: some stains. The end is wanting.

Purchased 1930.

This material has been digitised and can be freely accessed online through Wellcome Collection catalogue.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).