Opera medicinalia

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Description

Title
Opera medicinalia
Alternative Title
Opera
Creator
Ibn Māsawayh, Yūḥannā, -857 or 858
Contributor
Ibn Māsawayh, Yūḥannā, -857 or 858.
Nicolaus, Salernitanus, active 12th century.
Silva, Ercole, 1756-1840.
Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930.
Published / Created
8 April and 3 July 1448.
Publication Place
Northern Italy and Italy
Abstract

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).

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.
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.
Provenance
Armorial stamp: Comes Donatus Silua (f. ii verso). Sold by Conte Ercole Silva (Paris, 15 feb. 1869, n. 220). Ex Libris Henry Deullin of Epernay (front pastedown). Includes letter correspondence between Cushing and Wilfrid Voynich, bookseller. Purchased by Harvey Cushing from Wilfrid M. Voynich in April 1930. Armorial bookplate of Harvey Cushing.
Extent
1 item (ii + 294 leaves + i) : 219 mm x 156 mm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Call Number
Manuscript 3 Vault

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Armorial bookplates
Illuminated manuscripts
Material
parchment ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Topic)
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine, Arab
Medicine
Manuscripts
Subjects
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine, Arab
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 > Bookplate
Duellin, Henry > Bookplate
Silva, Donato II, 1690-1779 > Stamp

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
4441018
Object ID (OID)
16960283

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