Manuscript on paper, in two different hands, containing Joannes de Sacro Bosco's De sphaera mundi and Additiones (1r-22v) and Gherardo da Cremona's Theorica planetarum (23r-38v). First hand is unidentified; second hand, Jacobus de Milisapris, has copied the Theorica planetarum. Also includes a number of astronomical illustrations; in De sphaera mundi: f. 1v ("de forma mundi notatur hec spera"); in Theorica planetarum: ff. 23v, 26r-v, 29r, 33r, 34r. Manuscript is a palimsest; original text is a 15th-century Italian religious text
Alternative Title:
Tractatus de spera de Iohannis de sacro busco. Theorica planetarum and Tractatus de sphaera / written by Jacobus de Milisapris de Porturraris at Padua ; finished "at 2 P.M. on 9 September 1467"
Description:
In Latin., Titles from opening rubrics., Script: first hand writes in humanist minuscule; second hand in gothic textualis., Decoration: headings in red. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 30 lines., Binding: seventeenth-century paper binding over paper boards., Foliation added in red modern pencil., and Scribal note (f. 38v): Explicit Theorica planeta[rum] per me Iacobu[m] de Milisapris de Portuna[v]o[n]is. Anno C[hrist]i optimi 1467 die nono me[n]sis septembris hora m[er]curii. In paduano studio i[n] [con]trata colombino[rum].
Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of the author, of Walter Cromer's treatise on medicine and surgery in Latin. First page in English explains contents of the work; incipit: The contents of this littell boke be the followinge: fyrste the originall beginning of phisike and churgery... First 7 and final 38 leaves are frame-ruled, but blank
Alternative Title:
[Treatise of medicine and surgery / signed] Walt. Cromer
Description:
In Latin and English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist cursive., Layout: 1 columns of 31 lines., Binding: armorial brown leather binding over pasteboard, with coat of arms of Edward VI gold-tooled on both front and back covers., and Signed (f. 8v): Walt. Cromer.
Guglielmo, da Saliceto, approximately 1210-1276 or 1277
Published / Created:
1473.
Call Number:
Manuscript 54 vault
Image Count:
734
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, on paper, in two unidentified hands, containing Guglielmo da Saliceto's Summa conservationis et curationis (ff. 1r-275r). Followed, in a third hand, by an alphabetical glossary of plants in Latin and German (ff. 275r-278r). Ends with the text of the Chirurgia (ff. 280-364), ending imperfectly. Texts of the Summa conservationes et curationis and of the Chirurgia were likely written separately in Italy, but bound in Germany
Alternative Title:
Summa conservationis & curatione : [and] cyrurgia
Description:
In Latin and German., Title from title page (front flyleaf)., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: double column of 51 lines., Binding: German 16th-century half blind-tooled pigskin binding over oak boards with two fore-edge brass clasps, with catches on the upper board. Lower board repaired with one clasp missing. Parchment binding stay (Germany, 15th-century) between ff. 10 and 11). Binding was rebacked and repaired in the 20th century; pastedown and flyleaf were added (watermark "P" with 4 petals on top, not located in Briquet). Leather spinal label with a gold-tooled title: "Guilielmi/ Placentini De [?]/ Saliceto Summa/ Conservationis/ Et Curationis/ 1473"., Title page has colophon: Wilhelmi Placentini medici de Saliceto summa conservationis et curationis -- item Chirurgia. 1473. Claruit auctor tempore Rudolphi I imp..., End of Summa (f. 275) has colophon: Explicit liber quart et ultimus practice phisicalis excellentissimi magistri guilhelmi piacentini 1473., and Two units foliated separately.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Surgery, Medieval