Trento Herbal — Capud Johannis mazor

Alchemical herbal from Trento (MS 1591). End of the XV Century. Language: Latin and Italian dialect from Veneto.

Transcription:

Capud Johannis
mazor

Se alguna persona
avesse mal de ydro
pexia over altra
infirmitate tuo
de questa herba
e…

Cadamosto and Wellcome MS 336

I propose a visual comparison between two manuscripts of the herbal of Giovanni Cadamosto da Lodi and a Wellcome Library manuscript in which some of the illustrations are clearly derived from Cadamosto’s. I learned of this third herbal from Rene Zandbergen. The manuscript was…

Guarnerinus de Padua — 1441

Codex MA 592 of the Biblioteca Civica di Bergamo is an illustrated herbal written by Antonio Guarnerino da Padova in 1441. A complete transcription of the text (an Italian translation of “De viribus herbarum” by Macer Floridus) and small reproductions of the illustrations have…

Trento Herbal — Tillogas

Alchemical herbal from Trento (MS 1591). End of the XV Century. Language: Latin and Italian dialect from Veneto.

Transcription:

Tillogas

Ad sanandum malum
illiorum Accipe oncias
decem de istius herbe
et quoque in aqua
postea implastetur
super flancham et su…