Manuscript, on paper, in several unidentified hands, containing a collection of 30 astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and matematical instruments, such as the organ, clavichord, Turkish instrument, cylindrical clocks, sundial, astrolabe, etc. Texts include treatises by Franco de Polonia, (Pseudo-)Bede, Johannes Symonis de Zalandria, Johannes de Lineriis, Petrus Peregrinus of Maricourt, and Gerardus Cremonensis. Number 2 of 4 titles bound together
Alternative Title:
Manuscripts, composed of astronomical and mathematical texts and instructions for making musical instruments written down by two different scribes [i.e. Yale Medical Historical Library Manuscript 25]
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothic cursiva., Decoration: Ample rubricated mathematical tables and diagrams. Two- to four-line capital letters in red ink. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 35 lines., Binding: 16th-century red blind-tooled leather on wooden boards. Rebacked in the 19th century. Two clasps closing on the top cover., Locally also referred to as Manuscript 25., Foliation in modern ink; starting at f. 1., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomical Instruments, Astronomy, Mathematics, and Musical instruments
Receipt book; German text on materia medica : written on vellum and paper in two different hands, with original wooden boards
Description:
Manuscript, in parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of medical recipes in German (ff. 1-11 and 18-67), materia medica in German and Latin (ff. 11-18), and more recipes added between the late 15th century and the 18th century (ff. 67-88). Includes a 15th-century prayer against the falling sickness on the back flyleaf., In German and Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic minuscule., Layout: single column of varying length., Decoration: medical receipts (ff. 1-67) rubricated., and Binding: bound in wooden boards; no backing. Traces of clasps. "Sermones" visible on the wood.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Recipes
Title from item., From: Johannes Christ: Altdorffische Prospecten, 1718., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Universities & university life.
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., In pencil on mount: aus Wenings Topographie 1700., Possibly from Historico-Topographica Descriptio, published between 1721 and 1726., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title from item., According to Deutsches Historisches Museum, possibly from: Martin Zeiller/Matthäus Merian d.Ae., Topographie von Franken, 1648., Place of publication derived from language of text., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title etched in center of image. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Miracles, Children, Wells, Healers, Country life, Sick persons, and Crutches
Title from item., From: Johannes Christ: Altdorffische Prospecten, 1718., Sheet trimmed., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anatomical theatre; Medical schools.
Publisher:
Johannes Christ
Subject (Name):
Universität Altdorf.
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Comparative, Medical education, Medical students, Students, and Skeletons
Title from text above image., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., Text in image: XXXIX., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death, Urine, Analysis, Physicians, Sick persons, Crying, and Grief
Title and date from item., Place of publication derived from subject., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Julian Hospital.