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MS. Ashmole 1462

Summary Catalogue no.: 7527

Contents

1.
Medical and herbal texts.
Language(s): Latin
2.
Antonius Musa, De herba uettonica
Language(s): Latin
3.
Ps.-Apuleius, Herbal (with English gloss)
Language(s): Latin
4.
Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae
Language(s): Latin
5.
Ps.-Dioscorides, Ex herbis feminis
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine miniatures and coloured drawings. BL MS. Sloane 1975 is from the same workshop. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 244, pl. XXIII)

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. H. Black, A descriptive, analytical, and critical catalogue of the manuscripts bequeathed unto the University of Oxford by Elias Ashmole Esq...., Quarto Catalogues X, 1845). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 1266
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 1267–8
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 2, p. 1137

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (92 images from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.