Produced: France, ca. 900-1000

Language: Latin

Author: Pseudo-Apuleius / Sextus Placitus
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Scribe: 

Binding: 18th-century brown leather
Media: Vellum
Script: Carolingian minuscule

Folios: 90  Height: 23.5 cm   Width: 17 cm

Manuscript type: Miscellany

Location: Museum Meermanno, Hague, Netherlands

Family: n/a

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Contains a herbal, the Herbarius of Pseudo-Apuleius; and the De medicamentis ex animalibus (also known as the De virtutibus bestiarum in arte medicinae) of Sextus Placitus, a treatise on the medicinal use of animals. The Placitus runs from folio 34v to 41r, then continues at folio 83r. Illustrated with 167 uncolored pen drawings, mostly of plants, but also of some animals familiar from the bestiary. The animals all seem to have been drawn by the same person, who clearly did not know what some of them looked like; the hare, fox, lion, wolf and bear all look very similar. A second hand has written the Latin name of the animal next to most beast images; a third hand has written the animal name (sometimes incorrect) in French at the bottom of the page.

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Digital facsimiles: Meermanno Museum (partial)