Anonymous manuscript extracts and plates from Lémery, Dictionanaire des Drogues
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0174
Content Description
These two volumes contain collectively 360 numbered pages of plate images accompanied by French manuscript. The images and text are extracted from Dictionnaire ou Traité Universel des Drogues Simples by Nicolas Lémery (1645–1715), a French physician and pharamcist. The images are cut directly from an unidentified edition of the work, with direct text excerpts copied by hand accompanying them.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1800s
Extent
2 Volumes
Language of Materials
French
- Title
- Guide to Anonymous manuscript extracts and plates from Lémery, Dictionanaire des Drogues
- Author
- Christi Thomas
- Date
- 5 June 2026
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository
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