French herbal ms.MaS 116

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Ms. Mas 116 is presumably just as much a part of the tradition of the Tractatus de herbis as, for example, Egerton 747 or Lat. 6823.

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The illustrations of most of the plants are copied from Manfredus de Monte Imperiale’s Tractatus de herbis (Paris, B.n., Lat. 6823). Others were likely painted from life (Lilium, p. 206); the animals and figurative scenes often come from the Liber medicinae de animalibus, which follows the Tractatus in Lat. 6823. The style, however—more realistic, more sensitive, and more delicate—is comparable to that of the manuscript of Guiron le courtois (Paris, B.n., ms. n.a.fr. 5243), which has been attributed to Altichieri or Jacopo Avanzi, two artists who worked in Padua before 1376–1379.

Latin manuscript 6823 at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris contains a version of the Tractatus de herbis, entitled "Liber de herbis et plantis", which is different from that of ms. Egerton 747. Its signature indicates that it was written and illustrated by Manfred de Monte Imperiale, an unknown author whose origin is the subject of debate. The work could not be precisely dated, and would have been written between the end of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th century. However, the terminus post quem date of 1296 has been retained, due to the presence of extracts from Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis, which appeared no later than that year. The geographical origin of Latin ms. 6823 is as much debated as that of ms. Egerton 747...

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