Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Medical (pre-1701) Printed Collection, 318
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- Manchester Digital Collections
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- The John Rylands Library
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- 318
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- Date
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- 1548
- Language
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- English
- Title
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- A boke of the propertes of herbes the which is called an herball. (Book of the properties of herbs)
- Agent
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- John Walley (15..-1586)
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- Printer
- Original form
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- Walley, John, -1586.
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- Preferred form
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- Robert Copland (14..-15..)
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- Printer
- Original form
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- Copland, Robert, active 1508-1547.
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- Preferred form
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- William Copland (15..-1569)
- Role
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- Printer
- Original form
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- Copland, William, -1568 or 1569.
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- Preferred form
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- Manchester Medical Society
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Manchester Medical Society
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- Description
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- Extent:
[152] p., 14 cm. (8vo) Leaf height: 135 mm, width: 82 mm.
Binding:
Twentieth-century half goatskin; brown cloth over boards; spine direct-lettered in gilt; inkstamp on front fly-leaf verso: Bramhall & Menzies; MS note on front fly-leaf recto: Rebound 24/1/31. G.N.
Decoration:
The title-page has a woodcut of two figures labelled Amos and Job and a third smaller figure. Below the colophon is a woodcut showing St. John the Baptist within a circle. See E. S. Rohde, Old English herbals, p. 205.
Subject(s):
Herbals -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Format:
Codex
Provenance:
Oval inkstamp on title-page recto and occasionally throughout: Manchester Medical Society; former MMS shelfmark D606*.
Additions:
MS annotations in the margins of leaves A2r, A8r, C2r, E1r, G3r-G4r, K2r-K3r, K4v.
Note(s):
Signatures: A-I⁸, K⁴.
Imprint from colophon. Publication date from STC (2nd ed.)
STC (2nd ed.) suggests that this was printed by R. or W. Copland for John Waley.
Colophon reads: Imprynted at London by Johan Waley, dwellynge in Foster lane.
Black letter.
Publication:
Imprynted at London : by Johan Waley, dwellynge in Foster Lane. [ca.1548]
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- London (United Kingdom)
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- London
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- Londres (GB)
- Londres
- Angleterre, Londres
- England, London
- [London]
- London, England
- London, : By A. Milbourn in Little Old-Baily.
- England, London/Westminster
- Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
- London (GB)
- Great Britain England London.
- Londres,
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