A Medical Lexicon

Date:
14th Century
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MS.MSL.138
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A Medical Lexicon. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

An alphabetical glossary of drugs and samples with their properties and methods of preparation.

A very beautifully written fourteenth century manuscript with red and blue capitals. The handwriting is a neat uncial, and the entire text is in Latin, much contracted.

The last letter is Y, there being no entries for the letter Z.

On folio 86, the last, the scribe has made a number of trials of the pen, with some gilding, and a well drawn miniature of a bearded face.

Publication/Creation

14th Century

Physical description

86 folios, on vellum Folio. 28 × 19.5 cm. Modern binding.

Finding aids

Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).

Ownership note

On the flyleaf: "Ex Bibliotheca Askeviana. P. ii. Art. 488. J. SIMS."

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