Liber Aristotil[is] de nat[u]r[a] a[nima]li[u]m ag[res]tium [et] marino[rum]

Manuscript codex

Books 1-19; some marginal glosses and corrections in contemporary hands; some marginal notes and catchwords trimmed

Title from head of text

Collation: Parchment, ff. ii(modern paper) + 164 + ii(modern paper); 1-2¹² 3¹⁰ 4-10¹² 11⁸ 12-14¹² 15²; catchwords on sig. 2, 4, 6, 10, 13

Layout: Written in 2 columns of 32 lines below top line; ruled in ink with double inner and outer vertical bounding lines

Script: Written in gothic book hand (gothica textualis libraria)

Decoration: Flourished initials in blue and red at major divisions

Binding: 20th cent. retrospective binding (1/4 pigskin over wooden boards)

Origin: Written in England in 13th cent. See Schullian

Wilfred M. Voynich

Schullian, D.M. NLM incun.

De Ricci

Shelfmark: Bethesda, MD, National Library of Medicine, Manuscript, E 3

Microfilm

Item catalogued from existing description: Schullian, Catalogue of Incunabula and Manuscripts in the Army Medical Library; and in hand by National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, 04/2004

Exhibited: "And there's the humor of it: Shakespeare and the four humors," National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md., January 30 to August 17, 2012

Condition reviewed

digitized