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Contains: (ff. 1r-3v) Praecepta. - (ff. 4r-5r) Incantamenta magica. - (ff. 5r-6v) Remedia ad varios morbos ex herbis. - (ff. 6v-11v) Alphabetical index on diseases dealt with in Pseudo-Apuleius's herbal. - (ff. 12r-19r) De herba vettonica / Pseudo-Antonius Musa. - (ff. 19r-81v) Herbarium / Pseudo-Apuleius. - (f. 82r) Gynaecia / Muscio (?) Excerpts (on conception methods). - (f. 82v) Gynaecia / Caelius Aurelianus. Excerpt (on conception methods). - (ff. 83r-104v) Fragment from an unidentified medical work (chapters L-CLXXIII up to 100v)
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Origin and date: According to Bischoff 2004: "Wahrscheinlich Italien, s. VI-2 [...]. Zu einigen Pflanzenbildern Beischriften von mehr als einer Hd. s. IX, z.B. 23r, 26r, 61v, 78r (Tiron. N.). Um 1000 wahrscheinlich in Chartres". - Folio 82 is later added (13th century, probably southern part of German regions, written in littera notula and littera prae-gothica).
Script: Written by various scribes.
Illustration: 69 painted drawings of plants and some snakes: 13v (herba vettonica), 20r (herba arnoglossa), 23r (herba quinquefolium), 26r (herba hierobotane), 28v (herba yosgialmuo), 29r (herba acorum), 30r (herba leontopodium), 31r (herba batrachion), 32r (herba viperina and snake), 33v (herba batrachion statice), 34r (herba artemisia monoclonos), 35v (herba artemisia tagantes), 36v (herba lapatium), 38v (herba dracontea), 39v (snake and neumon), 40r (herba satyrion), 41r (herba gentiana), 41v (snake: serpens acontius), 42r (herba cyclaminos), 43r (herba polygonos), 44v (herba aristolochia rotunda), 45v (snake: serpens iecis), 46r (herba nasturcium), 47r (herba hieribulbum), 47v (herba apollinaris), 48v (herba chamaemelon), 49r (snake: serpens lysis), 49v (herba chamaeleon), 50v (herba chamaepitys), 52r (herba lactuca silvatica), 53v (herba asphodelus), 54r (herba oxilapatium), 54v (herba centaurea maior), 56r (herba personacia), 57r (herba fraga), 58r (herba altea), 59r (herba hippuris), 59v (herba malva silvatica), 60v (herba buglossa), 61v (herba bulbus scilliticus), 62v (herba cotyledon), 63r (herba gallicrus), 63v (herba prasion), 65r (herba xiphium), 65v (herba gallitricum), 66r (herba immolum), 66v (herba heliotropia), 67v (herba grias), 68r (herba papaver silvaticum), 68v (herba hynantis), 69r (herba polion), 69v (herba victoriola), 70v (herba symphython), 71r (herba leporis pes), 71v (herba diptamnum), 72r (herba solago maior), 72v (herba solago minor), 73r (herba phinomia), 74r (herba peresieneo nyptios), 75r (herba bryonia), 75v (herba nymphea), 76v (herba crision), 77r (herba isatis), 77v (herba scordeon), 78r (herba verbascum), 78v (herba heraclea), 79v (herba celidonia), 80v (herba narcissus), 81r (herba senecion).
Binding: Post-medieval binding. - Rebound (1986): each quire sewn to a folded parchment strip; the strips (filled with cardboard) were sewn together to create the bookblock and attach the parchment spine and two long leather thongs used to lace the wooden boards and also serving as closing ties.
Textual: (ff. 6v-11v) Belong to Pseudo-Apuleius's Herbarium (ff. 19r-81v). - (ff. 83r-104v) Incipit "L. ad nares ulcerosas quibus huius folia contundes cum sale et in nares adicies statim omnia purgabit ...".
Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Senguerdius & 1716): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290399
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
Description (De Meyier 1975): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:109990
Also described by MMDC and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD, The Hague).
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