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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3736
Title:: Giovanni Cadamosto, Herbal
Scope & Content:: This herbal was probably produced in southern Germany in the last quarter of the 15th century or the first quarter of the 16th century. It contains Giovanni Cadamosto’s herbal, which includes materials from the Tacuinum sanitatis, a Latin translation from an Arabic work on the medical purposes o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1475 - c 1525
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3736, ff 1r-80r
Title:: Giovanni Cadamosto, Herbal
Scope & Content:: Giovanni Cadamosto's illustrated herbal. Cadamosto, presented in 1471 his original text to Borso d’Este, marquis of Ferrara (1450-1471), now Paris, BnF, MS it. 1108 (see Le muse e ii principe, Arte di corte nel Rinascimento padano, II, 1991, no. 54, pp. 209-10). Decoration: Coloured pen drawi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 80 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3736, ff 81r-158v
Title:: Giovanni Cadamosto, Treatises on food, poisons and remedies, and the properties of stones
Scope & Content:: Giovanni Cadamosto, Treatises on food, poisons and remedies, and the properties of stones.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 78 folios.

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