Medical and Magical Miscellany: Plague Remedies and Charms (Latin and Italian Manuscript, Late 15th Century)
Public domain
Late-fifteenth-century manuscript combining Theobaldus Lonetus on plague, Arnold of Villanova on wines and remedies, and charms against epilepsy (morbus caducus); from the Joseph Frank Payne collection (Sotheby's lot 375). Unique manuscript: a handwritten codex held in the Wellcome Library's Western Manuscripts collection, so no second copy of this particular text-witness exists. Digitized by the Wellcome Collection and released under its Public Domain Mark.
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