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Title: Tabula and index on 4 damaged leaves from herbal, medicament manuscript book
Date Created and/or Issued: between 1250 and 1300
Contributing Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
Collection: Historical Artifacts Collection
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Condition: these four leaves have been used as binding materials; three of the leaves have holes affecting text, and all leaves are considerably stained and rubbed.
Scope/Content: Manuscript leaves from an herbal, medicament book.
Scope/Content: Black and red ink, with little ornamentation; one two-line capital E in red; outer edges of the leaf are dyed red.
Scope/Content: Layout of tabula: 3 columns on 6 pages, with Arabic numerals preceding each item.
Scope/Content: Layout of index: 2 columns on 2 pages.
Scope/Content: Binding information: two bifolia.
Scope/Content: These leaves are evidently a part of the Tabula of an herbal or medicament book. They contain a list of herbs and other substances. There is also an index of diseases and treaments (for example, "De medicamentibus artificalibus; Paroxismi; De medicamentibus contra furore [ ... ] contra dolore capitis [ ... ])."
Language: Text mostly in Latin with some words in Middle High German.
Type: text
Format: Vellum; 220 x 155 mm
Form/Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Extent: 8 unnumbered pages (that is, 2 unnumbered bifolia or 4 unnumbered leaves), bound
Identifier: ark:/86086/n2057j0z
RS164 .T33 1250
991009358459704706
31210021408610
UCR029
Language: Latin
lat
Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)
gmh
Subject: Materia medica, Vegetable
Botany, Medical
Diseases
Place: Germany
Provenance: Purchased from H.P. Kraus, Rare Books and Manuscripts, New York, N.Y., who states that the "leaves are from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no number)."

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