The Paneth codex : forty-six texts concerning classical and medieval medicine and surgery

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11002329

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Title
The Paneth codex : forty-six texts concerning classical and medieval medicine and surgery
Alternative Title
Paneth codex
Contributor
Galen.
Hippocrates.
Constantine, the African, approximately 1020-1087.
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?.
Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187.
Macer, Floridus.
Bruno, da Longoburgo, approximately 1200-1286.
Published / Created
between 1300 and 1325.
Publication Place
Bologna, Italy and Italy Bologna
Abstract

Illuminated manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, including a collection of forty-six texs concerning classical and medieval medicine and surgery

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).

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.
Also available on microfilm.
Provenance
Some sparse manuscript annotations. Formerly at Mylau (Saxony), 14th-century manuscript annotation: A.D. 1326 obiit pie memorie Tomaxlaus notarius Mylewensis Ecclesie... Formerly at the Saint Wenceslas Cathedral Library of Olomouc. Formerly owned by Fritz Panex. Includes, in folded slip-case with the Codex, second copies of: Codex Fritz Paneth / Karl Sudhoff: Leipzig, 1929; Über eine alchemistische Handschrift / Fritz Paneth: Leipzig, 1929; and The Paneth Codex / Yale University; also contains the 19th-century binding. Purchased in 1955 by the Yale School of Medicine.
Extent
1 item (685 leaves) : 370 mm x 230 mm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Digitization Funding Source
Arcadia Fund, 2013
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Call Number
Manuscript 28 vault

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts
Material
parchment, color illustrations ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Topic)
Falconry
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Medicine
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Phlebotomy
Recipes
Surgery, Medieval
Urine
Veterinary medicine
Subjects
Codex Fritz Paneth
Falconry > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Greek and Roman > Early works to 1800
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Illumination of books and manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Phlebotomy > Early works to 1800
Recipes > Early works to 1800
Surgery, Medieval > Early works to 1800
Urine > Early works to 1800
Veterinary medicine > Early works to 1800
Paneth, Fritz, 1887-1958 > Ownership
Kostel sv. Václava ve Veliši > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
4705153
Object ID (OID)
11002329

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