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- 1100-1300 (With contents note in a 15C-16C hand and a 17C index.) (Creation)
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1 volume 8+ x 6+ in., 159 ff.; varying number of lines to a page vellum
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From Durham, marked "Liber sancti Cuthberti de Dunelm. Ex dono magister Herberti medici"; given to Jesus College by Thomas Man, 1685.
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A miscellany including Dioscorides' De virtutibus herbarum and De natura lapidum; M. R. James's no. 44. Contains: 1) Paula liber de cura egritudinem parcium totius corporis [on the hair only]; 2) Dicta philosophorum, per Petrum Alfunsum [Alfonso], without title; 3) Priscianus de accentibus; 4) Dioscorides, De virtutibus herbarum; Dioscorides, Liber de natura lapidum, in French verse; 5) some paragraphs on the polishing of precious stones. The cover is lined with part of a leaf of a 13C servce book, containing lessons and antiphons from Isaiah.
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Microfilm available.