Herbaru[m] varias q[ui]vis cognoscere vires Macer adest: disce quo duce doctus eris..
Odo Magdunensis,active 11th century.
Macer,Floridus.
Brown, Thomas,active 16th century,former owner.StEdNL
Sutherland, James,approximately 1638-1719,former owner.StEdNL
[Paris : Pierre Le Dru,
1511]
Author and printer from Bird. Place and date of publication from colophon.
This work was formerly ascribed to Aemilius Macer, Floridus (Bird).
Colophon reads: Macer floridus De herbaru[m] viribus hic suu[m] capit periodum. Impressus Parisius Anno Christi Millesimo quingentesimo undecimo die ver. xxix mensis martii.
Title on box: De viribus herbarum.
Bird, D.T. 16th cent. medical books,
Kelly, W. A. Catalogue of James Sutherland's library,
Pritzel
Drawing of a coat of arms on the recto of the first original flyleaf. Manuscript inscription above this "Yis[?] buk p[er]teins to thomas broun ..." The names of plants are supplied in manuscript throughout the text in a contemporary hand. There are manuscript inscriptions of what appear to be medical recipes on the endpapers in Latin and Scots. Manuscript inscription on the verso of the last page of text "liber thome brown de s[anc]to and re[a]" in a contemporary hand, together with other jottings. Inscription on the title page of the Faculty Library's accession note of 1707 recording the previous ownership of James Sutherland.
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