Richard Lockyer, The Wellcome Historical Medical Library Herbal (1545 - 1575)

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Date

1545 1575

Author

Anonymous

Transcription source

Wellcome Historical Medical Library MS.340

Text type

manuscript

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

Summary

"Description of herbs, plants, and other substances used in medicine, arranged according to qualities: in English ... divided into 'Medicines of temperat hete', 'Medicines hote and drye', 'Medicines colde and drye', 'Medicines of metalles', and 'Medicines of the parts of beastes'." (online catalogue)

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type: alphabetical

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type: headword

Catalog

Wellcome Historical Medical Library. Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. Ed. S. A. J. Moorat. 2 vols. in 3 parts. London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1962-73. I, 219. view record

Other editions

Wellcome Historical Medical Library MS. 341, formerly Phillipps MS 8879, "is possibly an earlier text of MS. No. 340".