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Auction: 13050 - Postal History and Historical documents
Lot: 2023

(x) Historical Documents
Fifteenth Century manuscript page from a medical Book of Remedies, in English and well written in a fine hand which is easy to read, on paper, with two-line intial capitals in red. With remedies for worms, "Stinging of a Serpent", "Biting of a Mad Hounde" and "For hym that may not sleepe". Some staining on the outer edge. Scarce and interesting with some fine caligraphy. Probably from a manor or grand house of the time. From the Gerald E. Wellburn collection. Photo

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