This slender parchment volume from the Dominican Monasteryof Basel
contains Books I-V of De vegetabilibus et plantisby Albertus
Magnus. This work – actually in seven books, two of which are
missing here – represents a small part of the extraordinarily
extensive opus by the Doctor of the Church and universal scholar,
whose fame was surpassed soon after his death by that of his
student Thomas Aquinas. The worn binding shows traces indicating
that this was a liber catenatus.
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