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Title: Herbal
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Tebtunis Papyri
Rights Information: FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY. Reproduction prohibited: Direct requests for copies or permission to publish to the Rare Books Curator, The Bancroft Library.
Description: 8+ lines, on recto along the fibers.
In medium-sized semi-uncial hand.
Verso: empty.
Fragment of an illustrated herbal, consisting of a treatise on the medical properties of plants.
Probably from the Temple Library of the Temple of Soknebtunis, Tebtunis, Egypt.
Possibly belongs to the same roll as P.Tebt.Tait 39-42
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Botanical illustrations
Herbals
Subliterary papyri
Extent: 1 item papyrus, 17 fragments, incomplete, col. ill. various sizes.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00015
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Medicine--Egypt
Botany--Pre-Linnean works
Botany, Medical--Egypt
Herbals--Early works to 1800
Botanical illustrations
Herbals
Subliterary papyri

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