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Papers of Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11737/1-8
Scope and Contents
Includes commonplace books, diaries, books of etchings, sketchbooks and a manuscript "Remembrances of Woodhouselee".
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Two English medical manuscripts of the 12th century (each with later additions), bound together probably in the medieval period; the second at least belonged to a monk of Peterborough.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.16
Scope and Contents
A. (i) 'Macer Floridus, de viribus [so in title, 'virtutibus' in explicit] herbarum' by Odo of Meung(?). There are marginal headings throughout and two glosses on folio 1. A slightly later hand has added English equivalents of the plant-names (and also started to list them on folio 93 verso). A contents-list in a court-hand of the 13th century is on folio 39 verso. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Liber de virtutibus lapidum’, i.e. 'De lapidibus' by Marbod. (Folio 40.)(iii) Medical...
Dates:
12th century.