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- [XIV cent.] (Creation)
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v, 42 ff. : Parchment ; 180 x 135 mm. (written space c. 145 x 85 mm.).
Limp vellum covers, perhaps 16 cent., with remains of ribbon ties. Paper flyleaves.
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Memorial College; Swansea; Purchase (along with the College's library); 1981
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Medieval medical texts, written in Italy in the fourteenth century: Nicolaus [Salernitanus], Antidotarium (ff. 1-21 verso); [Johannes de Parma], Collectiones omnibus capitulorum libri Mesue (ff. 22-25); Compilatio flebotomie de qualibet vena (ff. 25-26); recipes, 'Cassia fistulatum...' (ff. 26-27); recipes in two later hands of XIV or XV cent. (ff. 27-37).
Folios 1 and 2, 6 and 7, 18 and 19 are palimpsests. The lower script, partly legible under ultra-violet light, is from a book of transacts of a notary, Albericus [?], 'notarius sacri palatii', written not much earlier than the medical texts; there is reference in one document (f. 12) to 'villa de quart' [?Quart, near Aosta].
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Latin.
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Original title.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 21703B.
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
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April 2008.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans;