The 'Liber de diversis medicinis' in the Thornton manuscript (ms. Lincoln cathedral A. 5. 2.)
By: edited by Margaret Sinclair Ogden
Contributors: Thornton, Robert, fl. 1440.; Ogden, Margaret Sinclair, 1909-
Series: Early English Text Society (Series). Original series -- no. 207
Publisher: Pub. for the Early English text society
Published: 1938
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Work titles: Liber de diversis medicinis.
Notes: A collection of medical prescriptions and charms written in a mid-fifteenth century hand; the scribe, a Robert Thornton, has been variously identified with three persons of the name who flourished during that period.  Robert Thornton of East Newton is considered the most probable person by the present editor and others.  cf. Introd. p. viii-xv; dict. nat. biog., v.56, p.303-304.

"Originally a dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of Chicago in candidacy for the degree of doctor of philosophy [1935]."

Early English text society's list of publications, etc. (8 p.) at end.

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