Spencer Coll. MS. 65: an Italian herbal abundant with swallowtail merlons
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Dated to ca. 1475 by notes in dossier; in a northern Italian dialect. Acc. to Kup, the direct ancestor of the illustration cycle in our ms. is the Latin Tacuinum Vienna ONB 2644 (from ca. 1385 for the Cerruti family; facsimile in bibliography).
Content: Compiled in Arabic by Ibn Butlan, late 11th c., deriving from Dioscorides. A Tacuinum ms. in Vienna with ownership note from 1472, very like this ms., is ascribed to Cadamosto (as translator?). Here, table of contents, ff. 1-2v.

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RE: Spencer Coll. MS. 65: an Italian herbal abundant with swallowtail merlons - by Linda - 27-08-2026, 04:59 PM

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