Vederala's pocket book notes on astrology

35 leaves : 1 illustration ; 5 x 12.5 x 1.5 cm (when folded) (8 lines per leaf) 35 leaves : 5 x 12.5 x 1.5 cm (when folded) (8 lines per leaf) Collected by Casey Wood: no. 202 Unbound palm leaves joined together at the edges. Most leaves written on one side only; there is a single illustration on leaf 27. Frayed and blackened, especially on the first page. Some text is lost here and at the margins of other pages, but it is otherwise clear Wood label reads: Vederala's pocket book notes on astrology - to determine favourable times to collect medicinal herbs etc. On Palmyra palm leaf. Rare. Ca. 1550; a second label is attached about the Casey Wood historical collection of Sinhalese materia medica Comment by Dr. Perera: Astrology, as described by Wood Not in Poleman