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Alphabetical glossary of drugs and their properties
A very neatly written manuscript in a bold uncial hand with marginalia. The first folio is a leaf taken from another manuscript to serve as a cover. This odd leaf is rubricated, but there are no rubrics in the main text, nor any illuminations, black ink only being employed. There is no title, nor any indication of the writer's identity, but the script, spelling and composition of the manuscript all point to the late fifteenth century as its date. (The Saxon forms of some of the letters are retained, especially r and f.) The volume contains two separate compositions, but the whole is the work of one scribe, the second composition follows the first without break. There are some few marginal annotations in an Elizabethan handwriting.
Contents
f. 1r-v pastedown, not part of original work
1. f. 2r- v An alphabetical list of drugs (plants and minerals) in Latin, with the English equivalents inserted in many cases
The beginning of this is lost; the surviving portion contains the letters S (part), T, V and Z.
2. ff. 2v-56v An alphabetical glossary of drugs (mostly plants) and their properties
This is preceded by an introductory paragraph beginning with the words, 'Phisik is a science pat techip to knowe seknessis in a manys body & to ordeyn medicynes to br$yge men to heele'. This is followed by a table of weights and measures, after which the body of the text begins. The alphabet from the letters A to T, the latter being incomplete.
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