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Title

Penn Library's LJS 437 - De re medicina. (Video Orientation)

Authors

Dot PorterFollow

Files

Date of this Version

11-4-2022

Comments

Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 437, a medical compendium of or treatise on simples (medicines made from one component, mostly botanical), with notes on their preparation and properties, grouped by first letter, but not arranged alphabetically within each letter group. A list of the herbs starting with a given letter appears at the beginning of each letter section. Occasional marginal notes and corrections, often slightly trimmed.

Written in southern Germany or Austria, ca. 1400.

Digital copies and a full record are available through Franklin: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958065673503681

Link to eBook

https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/69/

Link to OPENN

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs437.html

Keywords

Materia medica Vegetable -- Early works to 1800, Materia medica Vegetable, Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800, Medicinal plants, Medicine -- Early works to 1800, Medicine, Medicine Medieval, Codices, Treatises, Manuscripts Latin, Manuscripts Latin, Manuscripts Medieval, Manuscripts Renaissance

Disciplines

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Medicine and Health Sciences | Medieval Studies | Renaissance Studies

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Recommended Citation

Porter, D. (2022, November 04). Penn Library's LJS 437 - De re medicina. (Video Orientation). [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/181