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
Yale Med copy imperfect: leaves 99-100 (both blank), 169-188, 204, 231-236 (final two blank) wanting. and Yale Med copy has a later Italian binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
Ludolf, von Sachsen, approximately 1300-1377 or 1378
Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1550]
Call Number:
Manuscript 55 vault
Image Count:
16
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Illuminated manuscript fragments of medical interest, on parchment, of a collection of Orationes in Ludolf von Sachsen's Vita Christi. F. 1: inveniri. Fac ut voluntatem ... resurgat a peccatis. (I. 40-42); f. 2: Domine deus om[n]ipotens ... verbo dei ac mee [et] (I. 71-72); f. 3: Presta misericors deus ... stent portitores occasiones pec (I. 42-44); f. 4: aliorum saluti. Amen ... preterit a peccata (I. 73-74); f. 5: tionum flatibus et motibus ... crucis ascendisti in (I. 46-48).
Alternative Title:
Vita Christi
Description:
In Latin., Formerly known as "The Book of Hours." Leaves identified by Peter Kidd, 2017, as part of the Vita Christi of Ludolph of Saxony. Additional leaves discovered in the Harry Ransom, HRC Leaf 18, and Detroit Art Institute, reference number 69.277., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: text in yellow frame. Two-line initials in white, blue, and gold with floral motifs. Titles in blue ink. Red, blue, and gold line fillers., Ten miniatures in ink, tempera, and gold, framed by columns: Jesus, accompanied by two apostles, heals man with leprosy (f. 1r); Jesus, accompanied by two apostles, stands beside centurion and bed-ridden servant (f. 1v); Jesus stands in field of wheat, accompanied by three apostles (f. 2r); Jesus, accompanied by apostle, heals man with withered hand--two men (Pharisees) stand behind him (f. 2v); Jesus frees possessed man from red demon (f. 3v); Jesus raises child from grave--mother looks on (f. 3v); Jesus frees possessed man from red demon (f. 4r); Jesus in front of city, talks to crowd (f. 4v); Jesus, accompanied by unidentified person, frees two possessed men from black and gold demons (f. 5r); Jesus, accompanied by unidentified person, heals bed-ridden paralyzed man (f. 5v)., Layout: written in 1 column of 21 lines., Binding: modern cloth binding over pasteboard signed by binder: Bound by J. Desmonts / J. Macdonald Co. / Norwalk. Conn., and Foliation of original sequence(?) in modern pencil on recto: 38, 55, 39, 72, 72.y52; and foliation of order of fragments (i.e., 1-5) in modern pencil on verso.
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Miracles, Healing, Biblical teaching, and Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Leaves [5] and [6] unfold to a plate 47 x 32 cm.: two anatomical woodcuts with explanatory text., First leaf printed in red, leaf [14] a genuine blank., and Med: Contemporary German binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.