Tractatus de herbis : Sloane MS. 4016

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Object Details

Author
Touwaide, Alain
associated name
Foucault, Nicolas-Joseph 1643-1721
editor
Miró, Mónica
issuing body
M. Moleiro Editor, S.A.
Author
British Library Manuscript Sloane 4016
printer
British Library
Title and imprint from notary sheet inserted on verso of last leaf of facsimile volume.
Facsimile edition of British Library manuscript Sloane 4016, a medicinal herbal, consisting primarily of illustrations; manuscript produced in northern Italy, approximately around the year 1440. See British Library Catalogue of illuminated manuscripts (viewed online 17 Feb. 2012); Jones, P.M. Medieval medical miniatures, c1984, plate vii, p. 90; Backhouse, J. The illuminated manuscript, 1979, p. 52.
Facsimile volume has been reproduced from a copy which formerly belonged to Nicolas-Joseph Foucault.
Editorial director: Mónica Miró.
Facsimile volume has leaves illustrated on both sides; the first 4 and last 3 leaves blank except for information added later to the manuscript (preliminary leaf 1a, preliminary leaf 4a and 4b) or to the published edition (notary sheet, on last leaf verso).
Facsimile volume issued in a slipcase (40 cm).
Commentary volume (issued in 2013) by Alain Touwaide.
Limited edition of 987 copies numbered in arabic numerals, with an additional 77 copies (not for sale) numbered in roman numerals.
2011
1440
[2011-2013]
15th century
Call number
QK99.A1 T734 2011X
Type
Early works to 1800
Pictorial works
Pre-Linnean works
Facsimiles
Early works
Physical description
[4], 108, [3] leaves : chiefly color illustrations ; 37 cm + commentary volume (507 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm)
Place
Italy
England
London
Title
Simplicia medicamenta depicta, sive, Icones plantarum, quadrupedum, avium, insectorum medecinae ..
Icones plantarum, etc
Sloane MS. 4016
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Herbals
Medicinal plants
Materia medica
Herbs--Therapeutic use
Botany
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Record ID
siris_sil_952492
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0