Thesaurus pauperum... [etc.]

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Title: Thesaurus pauperum... [etc.]
Alternative Title: Thesaurus pauperum; Physionomia, in French; De junipero et fructu suo [and three additional tracts]
Creator: John XXI, Pope, -1277
Published / Created: between 1250 and 1399.
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing Pope John XXI's Thesaurus pauperum (ff. 1-84v). Also contains "Ci commence phisinomie qui ensegne" (in French; ff. 85v-87), De junipero et fructu suo (ff. 87v-88), "Hic sunt virtutes et efficatie aque" (ff. 88v-90), Liber kiranidarum de ix herbis ix avibus ix lapidibus ix piscibus (ff. 91-143v), De xiii herbarum, x animalibus, viii herbarum, vii planetas (attributed to Albertus Magnus, ff. 144-149). Includes, in a different hand, an index (front flyleaves) and a few medical recipes (back flyleaves).
Description: In Latin and Middle French.
Title assigned by cataloger.
Script: gothic textualis.
Decoration: multi-line decorated initials in red and blue link with contrasting penwork. Rubrication.
Layout: single column of 27 lines.
Binding: 15th-century beige deer skin over paperboards. Spinal label with title: Thesaurum / pauperum.
Provenance: Purchased in 1958 from Lathrop C. Harper Inc. as a gift to Yale Med from the Library Associates.
Extent: 1 item (iv + 149 + iv leaves) : 200 mm x 140 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Topic): Medicine
Manuscripts
Medicine, Medieval
Therapeutics
Subjects: Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval > Early works to 1800
Therapeutics > Early works to 1800
Medicine > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions > Early works to 1800

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