Commonplace book
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Description
- Title
- Commonplace book
- Alternative Title
- Commonplace book in English: on miscellaneous subjects, chiefly astrology
- Published / Created
- 1551.
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
-
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a collection of texts on astronomy and medicine: contains a treatise on uroscopy (ff. 1-48r), an index of the significations of the colors of urine (ff. 48v-50v), a table of astrological symbols and their explanations (f. 51r), an astrological figure "The circle of 16 angles" (ff. 51v-52r), a table of the days of the moon (f. 52v), a series of astronomical tables from Aries to Pisces (ff. 53v-57r), a medical treatise describing illnesses and medical recipes (ff. 58r-85v), an stronomical treatise (ff. 87r-119v), a text on the twelve astrological signs (ff. 122v-123r), a number of tables and figures on the planets, the aspects of the moon, and uroscopy (ff. 123v-126r), a series of astrological prognostic texts related to theft (ff. 129v-132v), a weather prognostication (ff. 133r-134r), a series of electionary texts (ff. 134v-137v), a treatise on bloodletting (f. 137v), a series of questionary texts (ff. 138r-146r), a collection of brief astrological proverbs (147r-147v), a series of explanations about astrology (148r-148v), and a questionary text on finding a thief (f. 149r).
- Description
-
In English.
Title devised by cataloger.
Script: English secretary hand.
Layout: single column of between 36 and 45 lines.
Binding: 18th- or 19th-century binding in marbled boards with brown leather spine. Spinal note "M.S 1551" in gold-tooling.
Decoration: rubrication throughout.
Date of creation from f. 122: "Wryten anno domini 1551."
Also available on microfilm. - Provenance
- Late eighteenth-century parchment insert in Latin containing a documentary text (f. 86). Eighteenth-century manuscript note (f. 57v), dated January 10, 1747. Includes armorial bookplates of John Ives (of Yarmouth) and John Borthwick (of Crookston) (front pastedowns). Donated by the Associates of the Medical Library.
- Extent
- 1item (i + 150 + i leaves) : 300 mm x 205 mm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- Call Number
- Manuscript 45 vault
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Early works to 180
Early works to 1800
Armorial bookplates - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Topic)
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Astrology
Medicine
Manuscripts
Medicine, Medieval - Subjects
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Astrology > Early works to 180
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval > Early works to 1800
Ives, John, 1751-1776 > Bookplate
Borthwick, John, of Crookston > Bookplate
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 4862764
- Object ID (OID)
- 16960323