Macer Floridus

Written in a small italic hand, 33 lines to a page. Fol. 1 INCIPIT Liber Macri philosophi in quo tractat de maturis [sic]/qualitatibus et uirtutibus octuagintaocto herbarum et primo de Arthemisia.//Herbarum quasdam dicturus carmine uires/Herbarum matri dedit arthemisia nomen/... 37, line 8 Confortat stomacum facit ut bene digerat escam.//Liber Macri philosophi de virtutibus herbarum/finit feliciter. Scriptus per felicianum de benis/de Montone In Rocca de medio prouincie/Aprutine eiusdem Terre Capitaneum Sub anno/Domini. M.D.iiii. die uero iii mensis octobris. 37v [Index omnium superscriptarum herbarum per ordinem.]/De Arthemisia seu mater herbarum herba prima/...43v Vicerum cura. 21, 24, 27, 47, 49, 86, 54. Produced in Rocca.

1504

1 volume 43 ll. 4to. 19 x 14 1/2 cm. Modern vellum binding. Margins cropped.

Purchased at Sotheby's 18/7/1932, Lot 205.

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).