[Treatises on chemistry and medicine. In Latin. M…]

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  • Reference
    • GB 247 MS Ferguson 32
  • Dates of Creation
    • 14--
  • Language of Material
    • Latin
  • Physical Description
    • 16mo. 179 folios on vellum. 10.3x61 cm. Calf over wooden bds

Scope and Content

Treatises on chemistry and medicine. [In Latin]. Mid-15th century. MS. on vellum.
1. f1-81 Sal commune est claviger huius artis et claudit et aperit omnia... quia talis fistula est incurabilis.
[Alchemical work, the first page of which agrees with Albertus Magnus, De alchemia, ed. Zetzner, 1669, ii. 433.]
2. f83-179 Herbarum quasdam dicturus carmine uires.
[List of plants with recipes. See Macer, Johann Gregorius De viribus herbarum, 1510, and many later editions.]

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