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Lorsch Pharmacopoeia Facsimile Edition

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The Lorsch Pharmacopoeia is the earliest known compendium of medicine to survive from the Middle Ages in Europe. Created at Lorsch Abbey around 800, the manuscript reflects a burgeoning interest in the medical knowledge of classical antiquity. The manuscript includes 482 medicinal recipes and writings on medical theory and practice connected to Christian tenets. The marginal notes in Old High German evidence the book's continued use through the ninth and tenth centuries. It also includes a partial Ottonian imperial library catalog recorded in the early eleventh century.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Lorsch Pharmacopoeia": Lorscher Arzneibuch facsimile edition, published by Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1989

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Manuscript book description compiled by Britt Boler Hunter.
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Lorscher Arzneibuch

Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1989

  • Commentary by Keil, Gundolf
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Lorsch Pharmacopoeia: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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