Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.118

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.118
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.118
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.118
    • Wellcome Library, MS.118
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
  • Date of Origin :
    • Mid 15th Century
  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 80pages 4to 201/2 x 15 cm. Unbound. The tenth leaf (pages 19/20) is wanting: last leaf damaged. The margins of the first nine leaves have been cut, other margins and corners frayed: some stains. The end is wanting.

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Data Source: Wellcome Collection - Online Collections

  • Practica zu Deutsch (incomplete). The work is written in a North German dialect. Written in a neat rounded gothic hand, 24-31 lines to a page. Ornamental initial in red on first leaf-some capitals and paragraph marks in red. The water-mark-a pair of callipers [?]-has not been traced in Briquet.

    f. 1r [D]iss buch nembet ein meister des nam was Bartholomaus vnd nam es usser eine buch da heisset barratica [sic].... 39v (Section headed 'Von scherling') ... den enhisset weder wurm nach nat-[uram?].

  • Purchased 1930.

Bibliography

  • Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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