Manuscript., Persian., and Anonymous treatise on medicine in Persian, assigned to a certain ʻAyn al-Ḥayat Iskandarī who may or may not have been a real person. Another copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris (Catalogue des manuscrits persans, par E. Blochet, no. 874). Undated ca. 17th cent. in fair taʻlīq writing. Seems to be incomplete at the end. 175 leaves; 20x15 cm.; the written surface measures 14x7.5 cm; 15 line to the page; commentaries on the margins of most pages.
Publisher:
s.n. and د.ن.،
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Persian, Medicine, and Therapeutics
Anṭākī, Dāʾūd ibn ʻUmar, -1599 أنطاكي، داؤد بن عمر، -1599
Published / Created:
1081 [1670]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 18
Image Count:
342
Alternative Title:
Nuzhah al-mubhijah fi tashḥīdh al-adhhān wa-taʻdīl al-amzijah 880-02 and نزهة المبهجة في تشحيذ الأذهان وتعديل الأمزجة 240-02/(3/r
Description:
Manuscript., Arabic., In neat, small naskh. The 164 folios measure 15x23 cm. The written surface measure 9x17.5 cm., 24 lines to page; few marginalia; the catchwords on bottom of page are sometimes cropped; the paper is beige and glazed. Leather binding of European origin., and "Ākhir mā wujida fī nuskhat al-muṣannif. Wa-qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah fī yawm al-Aḥad, sādis ʻishrīn shahr Rajab al-Murjib, min shuhur sanat iḥdá wa-thamānīn baʻda al-alf min al-Hijrah al-Madanīyah, ʻalá muhājirihā alf alf taḥīyah wa-al-salām, ʻalá yad al-ʻabd Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Aṣfahānī"--Colophon.
Manuscript on paper, in unidentified hand, containing the Wundarzt-Ordnung or Statutes for the surgeons of the city of Regensburg in 1578. Folio 14v is a supplement dated 6 February 1580
Alternative Title:
Regensburg (Germany). Wundarzt-Ordnung, Imperial town of Regensburg : Wundarzt Ordnung of 1578, and Wundarzt-Ordnung, 1578
Description:
In German., Title from title page., Script: northern gothic for headings and titles, and Kurrent for text., Layout: 1 column of 30 lines., Binding: contemporary blind-tooled pigskin binding, embossed in black ink with the Imperial eagle and with the Regensburg coat of arms; dated 1579. Traces of ties., English translation available. Search for call number: Manuscript 23a Vault., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Surgery, Practice, Medicine, Public health, Surgeons, and Professional ethics
Manuscript on parchment, composed of 2 parts, both of uneven quality. Part I of the codex written in the 15th century. The final quire, written probably in the 14th century, was bound in with the first 186 ff. in the 16th or 17th century. Contains excerpts of historical tracts, medical recipes, charms, prayers, notes on parliament, philosophy, and dream interpretation, proverbs, poems, notes on horses and hunting, and excerpts from astronomical and religious tracts
Description:
In English and Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-186): Written in Anglicana, by 2 main scribes, with abundant notes and texts added in margins and blank spaces by other hands. On ff. 179r-181r the scribe begins in Anglicana formata but lapses into a more cursive grade. Initials (3- and 2-line), underlining, rubrics and slashes at ends of sentences in red. From ff. 103r-140v, 3- and 2-line initials in blue with red penwork and long flourishes; on ff. 30r-31v (on the exchequer), checkerboards in blue, red and black in upper and lower margins. Water stains on ff. 1-2, only affecting a few words of the text. Part II (ff. 187-193): Written by one scribe in an uneven 14th-century Anglicana. Three-line initial on f. 187r not filled in. Outer column of f. 187 cut off., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Limp, flush boards are made up of fibrous, felted material (paper?) sandwiched between two layers of vellum, which extend across the spine. This case is glued and tacketed to the bookblock with three tackets consisting of at least six threads each. Stitches go through the spine linings around three threads at head and tail. Covered with tawed skin, originally pink, the turn-ins glued over the pastedowns. The cover extends in fore-edge and envelope flaps. Some rodent damage on the upper board and part of the envelope cut away. Discoloration and traces of adhesive on three outer edges of envelope flap.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Charms, English literature, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of the author, of Walter Cromer's treatise on medicine and surgery in Latin. First page in English explains contents of the work; incipit: The contents of this littell boke be the followinge: fyrste the originall beginning of phisike and churgery... First 7 and final 38 leaves are frame-ruled, but blank
Alternative Title:
[Treatise of medicine and surgery / signed] Walt. Cromer
Description:
In Latin and English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist cursive., Layout: 1 columns of 31 lines., Binding: armorial brown leather binding over pasteboard, with coat of arms of Edward VI gold-tooled on both front and back covers., and Signed (f. 8v): Walt. Cromer.
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., First line: "Gentlemen, I Waltho Van Clauturbank, high German doctor,"., In two columns with the title in three lines centered above both and the imprint presented as four lines of verse below columns; the columns are separated by a plain rule and enclosed in a border., Full imprint in verse: Printed at No. 41 take notice pray, Leadenhall-Street, the little a, London is needless, without doubt, only it makes the metre out., Below second column: (Price one penny)., Mounted on leaf 71. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
Printed at No. 41 ... Leadenhall-Street, the little a, London
Manuscript, on paper and parchment, in a single hand, of a Middle English translation of de Chauliac's treatise on surgery and other aspects of practical medical treatment, particularly of wounds
Description:
In Middle English., Support: mixed. 101 paper leaves, 52 parchment leaves., Layout: double columns of 54 lines., Script: cursive bookhand., Decoration: seven large decorated initials; numerous smaller initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: fifteenth-century blind-stamped full calf over wooden boards, rebacked; remains of later hardware. BInder's label on back pastedown: W. H. Woods & Co. / Manchester / 1879.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Guy, de Chauliac, approximately 1300-1368.
Subject (Topic):
English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medicine, Medieval, and Surgery
