Herbal in prose and verse.

Description

Title: Herbal in prose and verse.
Published / Created: [ca. 1400-1425]
Publication Place: [England],
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an herbal in prose and verse. The volume opens with two Middle English poems, showing traces of East Anglian dialect, describing a variety of herbs and their medicinal properties, as well as accepted cures and prescriptions for a number of ailments. These are followed by Middle English and Latin prose texts also concerning herbal medicine.
Description: Binding: modern vellum boards.
Decoration: some initials, headings and words in red ink.
Laid in: parchment fragment probably recovered from earlier binding.
Layout: single columns of 33 lines.
On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Script: English bookhand.
Extent: ff. ii + 43 + v : parchment ; 225 x 120 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)
Latin

Format: text
Genre: Manuscript waste (Binding)
Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500.
English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
Herbals--Early works to 1800.
Herbs--Therapeutic use--Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--

Access: Public
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Citation: A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De G