Herbal in prose and verse[ca. 1400-1425]enmlatManuscript, 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 medicineIn Middle English and Latin.Laid in: parchment fragment probably recovered from earlier binding.Layout: single columns of 33 lines.Script: English bookhand.Decoration: some initials, headings and words in red ink.Binding: modern vellum boards.