Ebrario, Un et altri buonissimi secreti

Ricoreto da me et rinovato avendo levato moltisime sporchizie, dove si trova duetavol, una de secreti, e l'altra delli autori 1800. Questo e di Girolamo Genesini. There are 84 coloured and four uncoloured pictures of plants of medical use, in water-colour, mostly of a formal and crude design following the early printed Herbals. The original text seems to have been written by different hands, an entry by one of the later of these on fol. 111 being dated 1555. Another entry by one of the supplementary writers on fol. 106v is dated 1732, and some other additions seem even later. The indices were presumably the work of Genesini. The first and last plant illustrations have been pasted down, and are not included in the numbered foliation.

c. 1550-1800

1 volume 12 ll. + 120 ff. 4 to. 211/2 x 15 cm. Original boards, damaged. The following leaves are wanting 40, 47, 49, 53-58, 60, 65-67, 77-87, 90, 92, 98-103, 107, 113-118. Of these, 91, 92, 98-103 have been replaced by re-written texts in an early 18th cent. hand.

Purchased 1911.

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).