Herbal : a fragmentary bifolium, in Latin, manuscript on vellum

Title Variants

Alternative: Carolingian herbal, northern France, late 9th c. MS 800 ES

By

Boehlen, Ernst,
Apuleius Barbarus.

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[France?], [between 850 and 899?]

Notes

Manuscript fragment on vellum.

Latin.

Title from bookseller's description; place and date of production assumed to be late 9th century in Northern France or Southern Netherlands.

Contains numbered capitula starting from XVII on recto and ending with XXXVI on verso. While not identical, the chapter titles closely follow those found in the Herbarium Apulei, compiled by Pseudo-Apuleius (also known as "De virtutibus herbarum".) The final easily-legible chapter on the bifolium is entitled, "Erbe femiculum."

Written in Carolingian minuscule hand with Rustic capitals in dark brown ink.

Text is in double columns of 36 lines, blind-ruled. Later numbering of lines every fifth line in dark ink.

Bifolium lacking one column of one leaf. Fragment was recovered from use as a pastedown in a binding.

Former shelfmark: MS 800 (Boehlen Collection, Bern)

Subjects

bifolia , Early works to 1800 , fragments , Herbals , History, Medieval , Manuscript waste (Binding) , Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) , Manuscripts, Medieval , Medicine, Medieval , Montréal , Québec (Province) , Specimens , Vellum (parchment)

Language

Latin

Identifiers

NLM: WB 925 .H534 800z