The "Liber de diversis medicinis" in the Thornton manuscript (ms. Lincoln cathedral A. 5. 2.) / edited by Margaret Sinclair Ogden, Ph.D.
- Date:
- 1938
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About this work
Also known as
Liber de diversis medicinis.
Publication/Creation
London : Pub. for the Early English text society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1938.
Physical description
xxix, 160 pages : frontispiece (facsimiles) ; 23 cm
Notes
A collection of medical prescriptions and charms written in a mid-fifteenth century hand; the scribe, a Robert Thornton, has been variously identified with three persons of the name who flourished during that period. Robert Thornton of East Newton is considered the most probable person by the present editors and others. cf. Introd., p. viii-xv; Dict. nat. biog., v. 56, p. 303-304
"Originally a dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of Chicago in candidacy for the degree of doctor of philosophy [1935]"
Early English Text Society's list of publications, etc. (8 p.) at end
Bibliographic information
Bibliography: p. 151-158.
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