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Item Type:
Collection
Unit ID:
GB-110/LM/MA/LIS/1
Date of document:
18th century
Description:
Ful title: 'Tomus decimus quintus | [Linnaeus has added:] af chinesiska botanico Mens et oculus | De diversis herbis quae pro medicina adhibentur | De Matricaria [Chinese characters]'
Translation from the Chinese of a part of Li Shih-Chen's work on natural history, "Compendium of Materia Medica" (Bencao Gangmu). The manuscript has references to volume 15 (there are 30). Numbers and letters show where the Latin notes apply.
Plants have their names in transliterated Latin and in Chinese characters.
Anonymous creator. The unknown translator has written an excuse for the fualts at the end ('Inter negotiorum moles quibus sum distentus...'.
The work of Li is in Carl Linnaeus's library.
Title:
'De diversis herbis quae pro medicina adhibentur'
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