Produced: Switzerland, 9th century

Language: Latin

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Media: Parchment
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Folios: 342  Height:   cm   Width:   cm

Manuscript type: Herbal

Location: Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Family: n/a

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A two part manuscript containing medical and herbal writings.

Part A: Page 1-249. Gregorii M. Regula pastoralis (more than 65 chapters). Includes a medical therapy that begins with bloodletting and ends with a plant register.

- (p. 252) Incipit ars sc.am medicine

- (p. 254) Incipit liber fiscius medecinalis

- (p. 339) Incip. Interpretationes erbarum s. pimentorum (alphabetical)

Part B: Botanical and animal remedies. In the middle of this manuscript a different manuscript is inserted (p. 275-334), with all sections having the rubric Nomen herba etc., with an empty space for the illustration of the plant or animal. Only the illustration for the lion has been done.

- (p. 288) Finit Bodanicus. Incipit liber bestiarum< Nomen leonis qui alias bestias potit interficere (followed by various remedies from the animal kingdom).

Additional description

Digital facsimiles: Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen (full, high resolution)