Autograph manuscript, on paper, containing a collection of texts on medicine and surgery. Includes: an index (front flyleaf recto), an unidentified medical text: A malis curis et a falsis (front flleaf verso), "Mens hominis discedendo alitur" (f. 1), a text on surgery: dicatur primo quid est chirurgia (ff. 2r-3v), Descriptions in Latin and Itailan of illnesses and presriptions for their cure (ff. 4r-71v), treatise on the science of medicine (ff. 72r-80r), index, prescriptions, and other notes (ff. 81-105).
Alternative Title:
Medical notebook ; in his autograph (Italian and Latin)
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Title devised by cataloger., Script: italic cursive., Layout: single column of around 20 lines., Binding: bound in a fourteenth-century vellum sheet of music (missal or antiphonary)., Author signs on f. 70 and ff. 72-80., and Dated on f. 37: September 1596, and f. 83: January 15th, 1604.
Subject (Topic):
Surgery, Manuscripts, Medical, Medicine, Practice, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing pseudo-Meletius' De natura hominis eiusque compositione, also known as Constitution of man's body
Alternative Title:
Meletii monachii de natura et hominia structura, Meletiou monachou peri fyseōs kai tēs tou anthrōpou kataskeuēs, Meletii monachi de natura hominis eiusque compositione, Constitution of man's body : in Greek, and Μελετίου μοναχοῦ περὶ φύσεως καὶ τῆς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου κατασκευῆς
Description:
In Ancient Greek., Title from titlepage., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 21 lines., Binding: vellum, over paper boards. Spinal title: Meletius, De natura et structura hominis, Graece manuscripta., Author also known as Meletius the monk or Meletius of Tiberopolis (Tiberiopoli, Phrygia)., Volume was likely produced in Venice between 1539 and 1542 or Guillaume Pellicier, bishop of Montpellier and ambassador to Venice., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Illuminated manuscript, in several unidentified hands, on parchment, containing a collection of works ascribed to Yūḥannā Ibn Māsawayh or Johannes Mesue. Contains: Canones universales (ff. 1r-58r), Medicum particularium (ff. 58v-207r), and Grabadin or Antidotarium (Inc.: Scripsimus in libris explanationum; ff. 209r-262r). Also includes Nicolaus Praepositus' Antidotarium (ff. 265r-290v). Various 15th-century medical recipes added in other hands (ff. 207v-208v, ff. 262v-264v, and f. 290v).
Alternative Title:
Opera
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: ten historiated initials in gold and colors: "P" with man wearing red cap (f. 24r); "S" with man teaching wearing red cap (f. 58v); initial wanting, cut (f. 78v); "S" with bearded man teaching (f. 87r); leaf with initial wanting (f. 100); "F" with man teaching wearing red cap (f. 105v); "S" with bearded man teaching (f. 112r); "P" with man teaching, bare head (f. 177v); "E" with bearded man (f. 265r). Alternating red and blue initials with pen flourishes throughout. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 30 lines (ff. 1-102 and ff. 163-207), 26 lines (ff. 103-162), 31 lines (ff. 209-262)., Binding: 18th-century Italian three-quarter green goat over marbled paper. Decorative gold-tooling on spine. Red spine label: Mesue Opera / MS. Membranaceum / Anni 1448., and Colophon on f. 207r: Deo gratias. Amen. n.d.t.s.h.o. die 8 Aprilis 1448. Second colophon on f. 290v: Deo gratias. Amen. n.d.t.s.h.o. die 3⁰ Jullii 1448.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, in the hands of Camillus Venetus (ff. 1-68) and his teacher Andreas Darmarius (ff. 68-155), containing books I and II of Ibn al-Jazzar's Viaticum peregrinantium, a translation from Arabic into Greek
Alternative Title:
Viaticum peregrinantium / Ibn al-Jazzar ; books 1-2 translated by Synesios ; manuscript written in Greek by Andreas Darmarius 4 July 1585
Description:
In Ancient Greek., Title from heading., Script: 16th-century hand (Camillus Venetus and Adreas Darmarius)., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 18 lines., Binding: bound in blind-staped olive sheep. (The same style and color as Medical MS 32.), Text includes books 1 and 2 only (of seven)., Colophon by Andreas Darmarius included at the end (f. 155r): Ὑπὸ Ἀνδρέου Δαρμαρίου τοῦ Ἐπιδαυρίου ἐν τῷ ἔτει αφπε ἰουλλίῳ δ (Hypo Andreou Darmariou tou Epidauriou en tō etei aphpe ioulliō d)., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
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