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
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1717–1719
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
box 52, folder 25
Image Count:
84
Description:
Charles Williams was a native of Caerleon, and had a successful career in Smyrna when he fled Wales after killing his cousin in a duel. He returned to London as a financier in the 1690s and befriended John Hanbury. When he died in 1720 he left his estate to Hanbury, who entailed it for his son Charles, who then took the name Hanbury-Williams. For further information, see The Hanburys of Monmouthshire by Richard Hanbury Tenison (1995), chapter 4. and A volume of letters bound in gold-tooled and stamped green vellum, with a printed CH-W number label (and evidence of a Phillipps label, now missing) on the spine. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 46; the Phillipps number is 10893.
Breslau die uhralte u[nd] hochberühmte Haupt Statt des Herzogth. Schlesien auch vortrefflicher aufenthalt der Musen u[nd] florisanter Handels Plaz an dem Oder Strom
Description:
"Cum gratia et privil. S.R.I. Vicariat[us] in partib[us] Rheni, Svevice, et Juris Franconici.", Ancillary view: Breslaw. Not drawn to scale., Buildings shown pictorially., Includes index, text, and illustrations., Latin and German., and Manuscript notation in upper right corner. From the Karpinski-von Wieser Map Collection.
Publisher:
[Matthaeus Seutter]
Subject (Geographic):
Poland--Wrocław, Wrocław (Poland)--Aerial views--Early works to 1800., and Wrocław (Poland)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Breslau die uhralte u[nd] hochberühmte Haupt Statt des Herzogth. Schlesien auch vortrefflicher aufenthalt der Musen u[nd] florisanter Handels Plaz an dem Oder Strom and Breslau die uhralte und hochberühmte Haupt Statt des Herzogth. Schlesien auch vortrefflicher aufenthalt der Musen und florisanter Handels Plaz an dem Oder Strom
Description:
"Cum gratia et privil. S.R.I. Vicariat[us] in partib[us] Rheni, Svevice, et Juris Franconici.", Ancillary view: Breslaw. Not drawn to scale., Buildings shown pictorially., Includes index, text, and illustrations., Latin and German., and Sheet measures 56 x 40 cm.
Subject (Geographic):
Wrocław (Poland)--Aerial views--Early works to 1800. and Wrocław (Poland)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Karpinski, Louis Charles,--1878-1956--Ownership., Karpinski-von Wieser Map Collection., and Wieser, Franz,--Ritter von,--1848-1923--Ownership.
Inserted folding leaf : ""Effigies tabvlae smaragdinae."" : 2 representations of the emerald tablet of Hermes. In Hebrew on the left and an exotic tongue (representing Chaldean?) on the right.
Description:
Engraved plate, 185 x 235 mm., tipped in inside front cover., MS consists of 3 loose quires in cover., On paper., and Single columns 175 x 120 mm. bordered in pencil, without ruling.
Subject (Name):
Hermes, Trismegistus. Tabula smaragdina
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy and Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
Binders leaves : ff. 4-16, 18, 20, 22, 24-25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 38, 39-40, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51-83 mostly blank with several modern annotations in pencil., ff. 42 : anonymous additions written in England, ca. 1700 (missing from volume)., and On paper with modern foliation in pencil including binder's blanks.
Acosta, José de, 1540-1600. De Novi Orbis natura et ratione Acosta, José de, 1540-1600. Historia natural y moral de las Indias. Latin. 1602 Bry, Johann Israel de, d. 1611 Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623? Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 Noort, Olivier van, 1558 or 9-1627. Beschryvinghe van de voyagie. Latin. 1602 Noort, Olivier van, 1558 or 9-1627. Vera et accurata descriptio Potgieter, Barent Jansz, b. 1574. Relatio historica Potgieter, Barent Jansz, b. 1574. Wijdloopigh verhael van tgene de vijf schepen. Latin. 1602
Published / Created:
1602
Call Number:
E159 +B79 6-9
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 168., Imperfect: map, signature Yy6 and ddd4, blank, wanting. Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 6. Latin. Francoforti] 1596. 1st ed., 1st issue, copy 3., Pts. 2, 3, and illus. have also special title pages., and The 1st pt., De Novi Orbis natura, is by José de Acosta.
Publisher:
Apud M. Beckervm,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Early accounts to 1600, America--History--To 1600, Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina), and Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)--Description and travel