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Tractatus de Herbis

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Manuscript Information

Title of manuscript: Tractatus de Herbis
MS call number (and folio selected): Egerton 747, f. 91r
Current location: London, British Library
Place of creation: Salerno, Italy
Date of creation: Between c. 1280 and c. 1310

Codicology and Paleography

Language(s) of text: Latin
Script: Italian Gothic bookhand
Abbreviations: Extensive abbreviations, written in clear and correct script.
Textual corrections
            Contemporary: None
            Later: None
Marginal commentary
            Contemporary: Passages from Issac Judaeus's treatise on diet are written in minute liter gothica glossularis 
            Later: None
Rubrication: Each folio features rubricated text, done in alternating red and blue ink; some capitals feature pen flourishes
Instructions for scribe: None
Instructions for rubricator and/or artist: Areas left unruled for images, indicating a close collaboration between illustrator and scribe.

Provenance

Marks of ownership: None
Previous owners: None known

Mise en page

Columns: 2
Lines per column: 13-14
 

Decoration (in hierarchical order)

Gilding: Gilding is present on the incipit page (f.1), within the historiated initial and the decorative border
Small ink initials: No
Pen flourished initials: No
Painted initials: Painted chapter initials of Literra Notabillor are present on f. 2r - 106v, alternating red and blue ink, some feature penwork decoration
Gold initials: A single gold "C" can be found on the incipit page (f.1) 
Foliate initials: No
Zoomorphic initials: No
Anthropomorphic initials: No
Historiated initials: The "C" on the incipit page is outfitted with an image of a doctor set against a gold-leaf background
Miniatures: Each page of the text features miniatures of an assortment of plants, animals and human figures
Marginal Illustrations: Illustrations of plants, animals and human figures occupy the margins, sometimes even overlapping the text
Full page illustration: No

Other Information

This text was intended for a reader who was well informed on the subject, as is indicated by extensive abbreviations.

Further readings

Minta Collins, Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 239-65. 
Jean A. Givens, et al., Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550.
Otto Pächt, Early Italian Nature Studies and the Early Calendar Landscape, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 13.

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