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The Badianus manuscript : (Codex Barberini, Latin 241), Vatican Library : an Aztec herbal of 1552 / introduction, translation and annotations by Emily Walcott Emmart ; with a foreword by Henry E. Sigerist.
Penn Museum Library RS169 .C7 1940a
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LIBRA RS169 .C7 1552a
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cruz, Martín de la, active 16th century.
- Standardized Title:
- Libellus de medicinalibus Indorum herbis. English & Latin
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Nahuatl
- Subjects (All):
- Materia medica--Early works to 1800.
- Materia medica.
- Botany--Mexico.
- Botany.
- Tobacco--Therapeutic use.
- Tobacco.
- Aztecs--Medicine.
- Aztecs.
- Mexico.
- Manuscripts, Mexican--Facsimiles.
- Manuscripts, Mexican.
- Genre:
- Facsimiles.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 341 pages : illustrations, color facsimiles ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press, 1940.
- Notes:
- "Piçietl," "piciyetl" (Nicotiana rustica) in remedies for "rumbling of the abdomen" and "recurrent disease": plate 54 (p. 138) and 82 (p. 166); transciption and translation: p. 259, 294-295.
- Latin translation by J. Badiano of Nahuatl text by M. de la Cruz.
- "Facsimile of the Badianus manuscript [Libellus de medicinalibus Indorum herbis]": p. [83]-202, designated plates 1-118. "Transcription and translation": p. [203]-325 (Latin and English in opposite columns).
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography: pages 339-341.
- Photocopy. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI: Books on Demand, 2003.
- OCLC:
- 1350441990
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