A LEECHBOOK OR COLLECTION OF MEDICAL RECIPES OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. The Text of MS. No. 136 of the Medical Society of London, together with a Transcript into Modern Spelling, transcribed and edited with an Introduction, Notes and Appendix. Published for the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom under the terms of the Dr. Richards trust.

DAWSON, WARREN R, edited by.

Verlag: Macmillan and Co., Limited St Martin's Street., London, 1934

Beschreibung

8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 8 + 344 pp. + [1] pp. colophon. Title page in red and black. Parallel Middle English and modern English versions on opposite pages of main text. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt with blind stamped borders on boards and gilt block of the Royal Society of Literature device on front boards. A little wear to extremities, including corners, a few water stains to boards and slight browning of fly leaves; otherwise a very good clean copy. The printed text of a mid-fifteenth century medical manuscript containing 1074 herbal and pharmaceutical remedies, followed by an appendix of forty six Tudor prescriptions. Edited by Warren R. Dawson, F.R.S.E.,F.S.A. Scot (1888-1968), librarian, antiquarian and Egyptologist. MEDICINE HERBALS HERBALS MEDIEVAL MEDICINE.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 29672

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A LEECHBOOK OR COLLECTION OF MEDICAL RECIPES OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. The Text of MS. No. 136 of the Medical Society of London, together with a Transcript into Modern Spelling, transcribed and edited with an Introduction, Notes and Appendix. Published for the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom under the terms of the Dr. Richards trust.
• Verlag: Macmillan and Co., Limited St Martin's Street., London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1934