Signatures: a8-i8, k8, l7 (one preliminary and two final leaves are genuine blanks). and With manuscript notes on leaves 88-89, some color lettering, and hand numbered pages 1-172.
Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʻĪsá, -1100 ابن جزلة، يحيى بن عيسى، -1100
Published / Created:
15--?]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 11
Image Count:
192
Alternative Title:
Taqwīm al-abdān fī tadbīr al-insān 880-02 and تقويم الأبدان في تدبير الإنسان 240-02/(3/r
Description:
Arabic., Manuscript., Theraputics in form of tables copied ca. 10th cent. H./16th CE in clear naskh and nastaʻlīq in medium size and large thulth in headings; measures 20.5x28 cm.; written surface 18x25; 27 lines per page; laid paper is beige and lightly glazed; some text loss on lower right side fols. 80 to end; damp stained title page pasted over. Cardboard binding; Ref. GAL I 485; 8 # 1; Ullmann, Medizin p. 160. Provenance: Cushing Arabic Ms. 11., and Digital version available;
Manuscript, on paper, in at least three unidentified hands, containing a collection of medical texts. Includes: recipes for cosmetics (ff. 1-10), herbal (ff. 11-28), medical and pharmacological treatise (ff. 28-42), Petrus Hispanus' Thesaurus Pauperum (ff. 44-122), medical recipes (ff. 123-125), De dolore capitis et emigrania et dolore dencium et gutturis (ff. 126-135), medical recipes--some in English (ff. 135-136), De passionibus et opillacionibus epatis et splenis et apostematibus (ff. 138-141), medical recipes (ff. 141-152), Constantinus Africanus' De passionibus matricis et de omni fluxu menstruoso (ff. 153-166), medical recipes (ff. 167-192).
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: secretary hand., Layout: single column of around 25 lines., Binding: fifteenth-century English dark brown leather binding, blind-tooled with a single strap and clasp. Later covered by a sheepskin chemise binding, now wanting. Pictures available in manuscript file., Watermarks include a bull’s head (Briquet 14345 or 6), and an armorial shield with 3 fleur-de-lys (Briquet 1697 or 8)., and Front pastedown is early printed waste (Dutch or Italian) containing work on clerical topics (e.g. fugiens clericus). End papers are rubricated, 15th-century vellum leaves from a religious work.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, Therapeutics, Traditional medicine, and Recipes
Manuscript on parchment, composed of 2 parts, both of uneven quality. Part I of the codex written in the 15th century. The final quire, written probably in the 14th century, was bound in with the first 186 ff. in the 16th or 17th century. Contains excerpts of historical tracts, medical recipes, charms, prayers, notes on parliament, philosophy, and dream interpretation, proverbs, poems, notes on horses and hunting, and excerpts from astronomical and religious tracts
Description:
In English and Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-186): Written in Anglicana, by 2 main scribes, with abundant notes and texts added in margins and blank spaces by other hands. On ff. 179r-181r the scribe begins in Anglicana formata but lapses into a more cursive grade. Initials (3- and 2-line), underlining, rubrics and slashes at ends of sentences in red. From ff. 103r-140v, 3- and 2-line initials in blue with red penwork and long flourishes; on ff. 30r-31v (on the exchequer), checkerboards in blue, red and black in upper and lower margins. Water stains on ff. 1-2, only affecting a few words of the text. Part II (ff. 187-193): Written by one scribe in an uneven 14th-century Anglicana. Three-line initial on f. 187r not filled in. Outer column of f. 187 cut off., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Limp, flush boards are made up of fibrous, felted material (paper?) sandwiched between two layers of vellum, which extend across the spine. This case is glued and tacketed to the bookblock with three tackets consisting of at least six threads each. Stitches go through the spine linings around three threads at head and tail. Covered with tawed skin, originally pink, the turn-ins glued over the pastedowns. The cover extends in fore-edge and envelope flaps. Some rodent damage on the upper board and part of the envelope cut away. Discoloration and traces of adhesive on three outer edges of envelope flap.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Charms, English literature, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
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