Collection of six medical treatises

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Description

Title
Collection of six medical treatises
Alternative Title
Medical manuscript containing six treatises; copied by the same scribe in black ink, with some text in red
Book of prescriptions
Contributor
Montagnana, Bartolomeo, active 1422-1460.
Tossignano, Pietro da, -1401.
Guainerio, Antonio, -1440.
Faustinum scribe.
Published / Created
20 October 1458.
Publication Place
Italy
Abstract

Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing six medical treatises. Includes: Bartolomeo da Montagnana's De urinibus (ff. 1r-10r); prescriptions by an unknown author (ff. 11a-29v); Bartolomeo da Montagnana's De compositione et dosandi (ff. 30r-40v); Petri de Tussignano's Recepte (ff. 41r-68v); Antonio Guainiero's Gynaecologia (69a-102a); and Antonio Guainiero's De febribus (102v-138a). Some leaves torn without loss of text

Description
In Latin.
Title devised by cataloger.
Script: gothica cursiva.
Decoration: rubrication throughout.
Layout: double column of 43 lines.
Binding: bound in modern printed paper with parchment flyleaves.
Colophon (second column of f. 102r): Die 20 octobris 1458 per me Faustinum.
Provenance
Extensive contemporary manuscript annotations in the margins. Some descriptive data from dealer's (The Scribner Book Store) offering, dated 9 April 1965, included with manuscript. Purchased by Yale Medical Scool Library in 1965, on the John Farquhar Fulton book fund.
Extent
1 item (138 leaves) : 350 mm x 255 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 57 vault

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Annotations 15th century
Material
paper ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Topic)
Medicine
Materia medica
Fever
Gynecology
Manuscripts
Subjects
Medicine > Early works to 1800
Materia medica > Early works to 1800
Fever > Early works to 1800
Gynecology > Early works to 1800
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
15th century

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
4418639
Object ID (OID)
16960334

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