Collection of works by Galen
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16960286
Description
- Title
- Collection of works by Galen
- Alternative Title
- Liber therapeutices, De utilitate anhelitus, De pharmaciis, De malicia complexionis, De accidente et morbo, De lapide, De phlebotomia, De pharmaciis Hippocratis, De virtutibus naturalibus, De complexionibus, De regimine sanitatis
- Creator
- Galen
- Contributor
- A. Maltby & Son, binder.
- Published / Created
- ca. 1350?
- Publication Place
- Northern Italy and Italy
- Abstract
-
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of a collection of works by Galen. Includes: Liber therapeuticus (ff. 1r-35v), De utilitate anhelitus (ff. 35v-37v), De pharmaciis (ff. 37v-38v), De malicia complexionis (ff. 39r-40v), De accidente et morbo (ff. 39r-40v), De lapide (ff. 59r-60r), De phlebotomia (ff. 60r-v), De pharmaciis Hippocratis (f. 60v), De virtutibus naturalibus (ff. 61r-74v), De complexionibus (ff. 75r-88v), De regimine sanitatis (incomplete, ff. 88v-97v).
- Description
-
In Latin.
Script: southern Gothic texualis.
Decoration: one 6-line initial in green, red, and purple acanthus on a blue backgroud with gold, leaves extending in the same colors to the upper margin. Several 5- and 4-line initials. Two-line initials with simple flourishing throughout, alternating in blue and red. Red and blue paragraph marks. Rubrication.
Layout: written in 2 columns of 57 lines.
Binding: contemporary leather binding over original wooden boards. Rebacked in July 1930 by A. Maltby & Son, Oxford. Traces of marks from clasps and of small metal bosses on front and edges of boards (few remaining). Label on back cover of book: Libri Galienni incipientes a terapeutica.
Catchwords centered in lower margins, enclosed in plain black ink frames. - Provenance
- Ownership inscriptions: Mateo da Foura quiso liuri de Galieno p' 40 - Albertus subscripsi. Copious contemporary manuscript annotations andmanicula in the margins. Purchased by Harvey Cushing from Paul Gottschalk Antiquar Berlin in 1929. Includes correspondence beteen Cushing and Gottschalk, and between Cushing and A. Maltby & Son (binder). Armorial bookplate of Harvey Cushing on front cover. His bequest to Yale Medical School Library.
- Extent
- 1item (i + 98 + i leaves) : 415 mm x 270 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- Call Number
- Manuscript 6 Vault
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Early works to 1800
Armorial bookplates
Annotations 14th century - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Topic)
-
Hygiene
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine
Manuscripts - Subjects
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Hygiene > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Greek and Roman > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
14th century
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 > Bookplate
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 4454748
- Object ID (OID)
- 16960286
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