Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of Hieronymus Münzer, containing pseudo-Aristotle's De mundo, sometimes attributed to Nicolaus of Damascus. (A text translated from Arabic by Apuleius.) Includes copious marginal notes by Hieronymus Münzer
Alternative Title:
De mundo / pseudo-Aristotle [probably by Nicolaus Damascenus] ; translated into Latin by Apuleius Madaurensis ; written in ink on paper by Hieronymus Münzer at Nuremberg in 1494
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of around 30 lines., Binding: modern cloth binding over pasteboard., Signed and dated by Münzer on leaf 17r: Hic nobilissimus libellus aristotilis de mundo scriptus est manibus Magistri Hieronimi Monetarii de feltkirchen medicina doctoris etc., uicesima quarta Februarii anno salutis 1494 Nuremberge. Satis correctus est magnoque labore ex incorrecto uolumine in lucem prodiit., and Article, written by Walter Kurt Fränkel with caption title: "Dr. Hieronymus Münzer, 1440-1508 Stadtarztt vun Nürmberg, Humanist, Geograph uns Schwiegervater Holzschuhers", in envelope shelved with the manuscript.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Philosophy
Manuscript in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing an incomplete copy of Constantine the African's De Remine Sanitatis, or Liber Pantegni (Practica). The text is a Latin translation from Arabic of ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās Majūsī's Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah. Contains 16 leaves: incipit: Quia in p[rima] p[ar]te n[ost]ri lib[ri] panteg[ni]; excipit: melestia[m]. Bound together with parchment leaf (l. 17) with miscellaneous medical notes, in several hands different from the hand of the other 16 leaves
Alternative Title:
Liber pantegni
Description:
In Latin., Title from opening rubric: Hic incipit liber de regimine sanitatis., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: Red and blue illluminated initials with red and blue pen-flourishing in the margin; rubrication., Layout: leaves 1-16: 1 column of 34-37 lines; leaf 17: two-columns of 37 lines., Binding: Modern three-quarter vellum over green printed paper. Spine title: Constantinus Africanus MS. Saec. XIII., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Name):
Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, active 10th century-11th century.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing an Italian translation of Antonio Guainerio's De venenis
Description:
In Italian., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist hand., Decoration: one six-line decorated initial in gold on rectangle border with floral decoration (f. 1r). Two-line initials in red and blue ink throughout. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 24 lines., Binding: 17th-18th c. deer skin over paper boards., and Watermark is a variant of Briquet 6597-6600, Northern Italy, 1465-80.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Venom
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing an extract of Dioscorides' De materia medica, a medico-botanical dictionary arranged alphabetically
Alternative Title:
Medico-botanical dictionary / extracted from Dioscorides ; manuscript written in Greek during the 15th Century
Description:
In Greek., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Layout: single column of 30 lines., Binding: vellum, over paper boards. Spinal title: Dioscorides De plantis Graece Manuscrip., and Volume was likely produced in Venice between 1539 and 1542 or Guillaume Pellicier, bishop of Montpellier and ambassador to Venice.
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical, Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Yazdī, al-Muṭahhar ibn Muḥammad, active 1184 يزدي، المطهر بن محمد، active 1184
Published / Created:
16--?]
Call Number:
Manuscript Persian 23
Image Count:
326
Alternative Title:
ʻAjāyib al-dunyā, Book of animals, plants and stones, ʻAjāʼib al-dunyā, عجايب الدنيا, and عجائب الدنيا
Description:
Digital version available;, Manuscript., Persian., and Copied in 11th/17th cent., in large taʻlīq; written surface measures 14x24 cm., 14 lines per page. Illuminated with detailed multicolored illustrations of animals, birds, plants, stones and humans. Mounted unto thin yellow paper. Worming affecting text is crudely patched. European linen binding is gilt stamped. Ref.: BMP p. 465b; Fonahn, Zur Quellenkunde, # 287. Printed Lucknow 1282/1865. Acquired: June, 1951.
Publisher:
s.n. and د.ن.،
Subject (Topic):
Natural history, Zoology, Botany, Precious stones, and Minerals
All three texts translated into Italian by Sebastiano Manilio., Illustrated with 10 full-page Venetian woodcuts; one of which, The Dissection, is printed in color., and Yale Med copy imperfect: leaf 1 wanting and supplied in facsimile.