Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a description of several alchemical and medical ingredients and processes. Includes a table of contents, using alchemical symbols, on f. 1: Aurum potabile (ff. 1-4), Lapis animalis (ff. 4-14), Lapis Vegetabilis (ff. 14-19), Lapis mineralis (ff. 19-26), Aurum potabile (ff. 26-30), Tinctura cum mercurio (ff. 30-33), Tinctura magna (ff. 33-36), Das war Auz[] pota[]le (ff. 36-41), Testamentum Raimundi Lulii (ff. 41-58), [mercuriis?] corporibus, Sequitur solutiones, Tinctura animalis, Tinctura albedinis (ff. 77-80), Coagulatio Mercurii (ff. 80-82), De oro argento (ff. 82-83), Verus elixir (ff. 83-86), Secreta Antionii (ff. 86-92), Proiectio (ff. 92-99).
Description:
In Latin and German., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic cursiva., Decoration: headings in red ink. Spare rubrication., Layout: single column of around 17 lines., Binding: red vellum binding., and Foliation in later hand.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Manuscripts, Materia medica, Medicine, Medicine, Medieval, and Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
Illuminated manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, including a collection of forty-six texs concerning classical and medieval medicine and surgery and Includes: Ysagoge Joanicii ad tegni Galeni (ff. 1-14), Liber aphorismorum Ypocratis (ff. 14-30), Pronosticorum Ypocratis liber (ff. 30-40), Liber urinarum Theophili (ff. 40-53), Philareti de negotio pulsuum (ff. 53-57), Tegni Galieni (ff. 57-91), Anatomia Ricardi (ff. 91-104), Anatomia Mauri (ff. 104-107), Anonymous tract on bloodletting (ff. 107-108), Versus urinarum Egidii (ff. 109-113), Egidius de pulsibus (ff. 113-118), Galen's De medicinis experimentatis (ff. 121-140), Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum (ff. 141-152), Aphorismi Joannis Damasceni (ff. 153-159), Hippocrates' de aqua et aere (ff. 161-172), Hippocrates' de veritate (ff. 172-175), Hippocrates' de secreta (ff. 175-177), Isaac Judaeus' De diaetis (ff. 181-268), Liber de ponderibus (ff. 268-270), Geraldus' De signis digestionum (ff. 270-329), Liber divisionum Arazi (ff. 331-469), Synonyma (ff. 470-477), Cirurgia (ff. 479-636), Rasis' de doloribus iuncturarum (ff. 639-664), Rasis' de curis puerorum (ff. 664-671), Collection of medical recipes (ff. 671-675), De virtute visibili (ff. 675-683), Tacuinum sanitatis (ff. 685-768), De mineralibus (ff. 769-772), Epistola Ameti filii Abrahe de proprietatibus (ff. 773-780), Liber vaccae (ff. 781-811), Cirurgia Bruni (ff. 813-924), Cirurgia Bruni brevis (ff. 924-941), Cirurgia Rolandi (ff. 943-1018), Roger de Barone Major et minor de medicamentia (ff. 1019-1168), Macer de virtutibus herbarum (ff. 1171-1197), De vertutibus gemmarum (ff. 1197-1201), Liber herbolarii (ff. 1203-1317), Isagoge Dauci (ff. 1319-1325), Guillelmi falconerii (ff. 1325-1329), De cura equorum (ff. 1330-1375), Regulae equorum (ff. 1375-1377), Recipes in 14th- and 15th-century hands (ff. 1378).
Alternative Title:
Paneth codex
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic textualis., Decoration: heavily decorated throughout. Texts generally start with historiated initial showing authorial portrait (ff. 1, 8, 12, 15, 29, 46, 54, 57, 61, 71, 77, 86, 88, 91, 108, 137, 219, 240, 252, 301, 320, 343, 462, 407, 439, 472, 489, 507, 510, 560, 571, 579, 582, 586, 602, 660, 665). Other miniatures of numerous medical instruments and other scenarios can be found throughout the manuscript as historiated initials, paragraph markers, or in the margins (e.g. f. 52: pig slaughtered for dissection(?); f. 81: of Aquarius). Varying fantastical animals and creatures in the margins. Also includes a number of rectangular tables containing dietary information. Headings rubricated, subheadings in alternating blue and red letters. Two- to three-line initials in alternating blue and red ink with penwork in contrasting colors. Rubrication., Layout: double column of 43 lines., Binding: modern light brown leather binding over wooden boards with four clasps., Perhaps commissioned in Bologna for the University of Prague. Ornamental documentation may have been started in Bologna, but finished by a Bohemian artist later., Incipits identified by Peter Murray Jones, 2003., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Phlebotomy, Recipes, Surgery, Medieval, Urine, and Veterinary medicine
Illuminated manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, including a collection of forty-six texs concerning classical and medieval medicine and surgery and Includes: Ysagoge Joanicii ad tegni Galeni (ff. 1-14), Liber aphorismorum Ypocratis (ff. 14-30), Pronosticorum Ypocratis liber (ff. 30-40), Liber urinarum Theophili (ff. 40-53), Philareti de negotio pulsuum (ff. 53-57), Tegni Galieni (ff. 57-91), Anatomia Ricardi (ff. 91-104), Anatomia Mauri (ff. 104-107), Anonymous tract on bloodletting (ff. 107-108), Versus urinarum Egidii (ff. 109-113), Egidius de pulsibus (ff. 113-118), Galen's De medicinis experimentatis (ff. 121-140), Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum (ff. 141-152), Aphorismi Joannis Damasceni (ff. 153-159), Hippocrates' de aqua et aere (ff. 161-172), Hippocrates' de veritate (ff. 172-175), Hippocrates' de secreta (ff. 175-177), Isaac Judaeus' De diaetis (ff. 181-268), Liber de ponderibus (ff. 268-270), Geraldus' De signis digestionum (ff. 270-329), Liber divisionum Arazi (ff. 331-469), Synonyma (ff. 470-477), Cirurgia (ff. 479-636), Rasis' de doloribus iuncturarum (ff. 639-664), Rasis' de curis puerorum (ff. 664-671), Collection of medical recipes (ff. 671-675), De virtute visibili (ff. 675-683), Tacuinum sanitatis (ff. 685-768), De mineralibus (ff. 769-772), Epistola Ameti filii Abrahe de proprietatibus (ff. 773-780), Liber vaccae (ff. 781-811), Cirurgia Bruni (ff. 813-924), Cirurgia Bruni brevis (ff. 924-941), Cirurgia Rolandi (ff. 943-1018), Roger de Barone Major et minor de medicamentia (ff. 1019-1168), Macer de virtutibus herbarum (ff. 1171-1197), De vertutibus gemmarum (ff. 1197-1201), Liber herbolarii (ff. 1203-1317), Isagoge Dauci (ff. 1319-1325), Guillelmi falconerii (ff. 1325-1329), De cura equorum (ff. 1330-1375), Regulae equorum (ff. 1375-1377), Recipes in 14th- and 15th-century hands (ff. 1378).
Alternative Title:
Paneth codex
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic textualis., Decoration: heavily decorated throughout. Texts generally start with historiated initial showing authorial portrait (ff. 1, 8, 12, 15, 29, 46, 54, 57, 61, 71, 77, 86, 88, 91, 108, 137, 219, 240, 252, 301, 320, 343, 462, 407, 439, 472, 489, 507, 510, 560, 571, 579, 582, 586, 602, 660, 665). Other miniatures of numerous medical instruments and other scenarios can be found throughout the manuscript as historiated initials, paragraph markers, or in the margins (e.g. f. 52: pig slaughtered for dissection(?); f. 81: of Aquarius). Varying fantastical animals and creatures in the margins. Also includes a number of rectangular tables containing dietary information. Headings rubricated, subheadings in alternating blue and red letters. Two- to three-line initials in alternating blue and red ink with penwork in contrasting colors. Rubrication., Layout: double column of 43 lines., Binding: modern light brown leather binding over wooden boards with four clasps., Perhaps commissioned in Bologna for the University of Prague. Ornamental documentation may have been started in Bologna, but finished by a Bohemian artist later., Incipits identified by Peter Murray Jones, 2003., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Phlebotomy, Recipes, Surgery, Medieval, Urine, and Veterinary medicine
Manuscript, on paper, in at least three unidentified hands, containing a collection of medical texts. Includes: recipes for cosmetics (ff. 1-10), herbal (ff. 11-28), medical and pharmacological treatise (ff. 28-42), Petrus Hispanus' Thesaurus Pauperum (ff. 44-122), medical recipes (ff. 123-125), De dolore capitis et emigrania et dolore dencium et gutturis (ff. 126-135), medical recipes--some in English (ff. 135-136), De passionibus et opillacionibus epatis et splenis et apostematibus (ff. 138-141), medical recipes (ff. 141-152), Constantinus Africanus' De passionibus matricis et de omni fluxu menstruoso (ff. 153-166), medical recipes (ff. 167-192).
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: secretary hand., Layout: single column of around 25 lines., Binding: fifteenth-century English dark brown leather binding, blind-tooled with a single strap and clasp. Later covered by a sheepskin chemise binding, now wanting. Pictures available in manuscript file., Watermarks include a bull’s head (Briquet 14345 or 6), and an armorial shield with 3 fleur-de-lys (Briquet 1697 or 8)., and Front pastedown is early printed waste (Dutch or Italian) containing work on clerical topics (e.g. fugiens clericus). End papers are rubricated, 15th-century vellum leaves from a religious work.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, Therapeutics, Traditional medicine, and Recipes
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Macer Floridus, Viribus herbarum. Composed of one incomplete bifolium containing lines 1369-1387, 1395-1413, 1420-1438,1445-1464 of the 1832 edition edited by L. Choulant
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Layout: Single columns of 19 lines, of an original 26., Script: Gothica Textualis Libraria using Cursiva d., Decoration: Undecorated, except for a 1-line red versal and a 2-line plain red initial M on the last but one line of f. 2r (“Marrubium”)., Binding: used as binding for Galeatius Capella, De rebus nuper in Italia gestis libri octo (Antwerp, J. Grapheus?, 1533)., Secundo folio: Et sic sit sumpta., Bookseller description available., and Bound with Galeatius Capella, De rebus nuper in Italia gestis libri octo (Antwerp, J. Grapheus?, 1533). For other title, search by call number.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Macer, Floridus.
Subject (Topic):
Herbs, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
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
