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Eyn schone Arstedyge boeck van allerleye ghebreck vnnde kranckheyden der mynschen

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Description
For a note on the contents of this book, see BM 15th cent. where it is treated as a Low-Saxonn version of the Herbarius. Madsen lists as Promptuarium medicinae. Title page has a woodcut illustration of doctors attending a patient. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 28.4 x 20.5 cm. Text in two columns. Spaces left for initials. Signatures: [*⁸ a-b¹⁰ c-n⁸ o-p⁶]. Imperfect: leaf [*]1 (the title page) lacking. Initials in red or blue; rubrication in red. Binding: contemporary German blindstamped calf over wooden boards; remnants of two clasps.
Type
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Date
[31 July 1483]
Call number
90921
Creator
Ortolf(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased from Vollbehr, March 23, 1925. Inscription on free endpaper at beginning: Liber a Bernardi de Monte dono areptus[?] a d[omi]no Cixiaro Langen Sabato[?] post viti dcria[?] sexta mensis Iunij ... anno d[omi]ni xv xxvj. Extensive contemporary ms. annotations on inside of front cover, on free endpapers at beginning and end, and on inside of back cover. Occasional annotations in the margins of the text.
Dimensions
30 cm (Folio)
Associated people
Ghotan, Bartholomeus,
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