A in the margin

The vertical ruling of this manuscript invites initials to appear in a separate column to the left of the text block.
Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis ; Remus Favinus, Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; Oxiepate; Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis ; Bede, De Temporum Ratione (excerpt); Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae ; Pseudo-Galen, De febribus ; recipes and a treatise on uroscopyMedical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis ; Remus Favinus, Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; Oxiepate; Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis ; Bede, De Temporum Ratione (excerpt); Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae ; Pseudo-Galen, De febribus ; recipes and a treatise on uroscopy
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British Library, Sloane MS 475, f.60v.

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