In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medici[n]e s[cilicet] Ypoc[ra]tis, Platonis, et Diascoridis

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16960297

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Title
In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medici[n]e s[cilicet] Ypoc[ra]tis, Platonis, et Diascoridis
Alternative Title
In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicine scilicet Ypocratis, Platonis, et Diascoridis
In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicie s. Ypoctis, Platonis, et Diascoridis
De herbis masculinis et feminis [and other botanical and zoological works, including the Herbarium of Apuleius]
Contributor
Apuleius, Barbarus.
Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos.
Hippocrates.
Placitus, Sextus, Papyriensis.
Published / Created
ca. 1400?
Publication Place
Lombardy, Italy and Italy
Abstract

Illuminated manuscript herbal, on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of medical texts, tables, and taxonomies about plants, animals, and herbs by Hippocrates, Dycolapius Plato, Apuleius, Sextus Placitus, Dioscorides, and Apollinis. Includes copious hand-colored drawings of plants and animals, and a number of full-page author portraits

Description
In Latin.
Title from rubricated heading on f. 3r.
Script: southern gothic textualis.
Layout: 1 column of around 38 lines.
Decoration: copious illustriations of plants and animals. Full-page portraits of the authors on ff. 3v, 50v, and 63r. Rubrication.
Binding: 18th/19th-century vellum binding over pastedboard. Spine title: Plantan et animal.
Pagination added in modern pencil.
Also available on microfilm.
Provenance
Former shelfnumber 33 in red ink on inside front cover. Manuscript note by Henry Thomas de la Beche (recto front flyealeaf): H. T. De la Beche / Rome. January 1829. Bookplate of Castlecraig Library. Purchased from Prof. Goldschmidt, Hess Antiquariat (Bern, 1937) by Dr. Harvey Cushing. His bequest to Yale Medical School Library.
Extent
1 item (i + 87 + i leaves) : 270 mm x 205 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 18 vault

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Armorial bookplates
Material
parchment, ill. ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Topic)
Botany, Medical
Herbals
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine
Manuscripts
Zoology, Medieval
Subjects
Botany, Medical > Early works to 1800
Herbals > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Zoology, Medieval > Early works to 1800
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 > Bookplate
Castlecraig Library > Bookplate
De La Beche, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1796-1855 > Autograph

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
4525645
Object ID (OID)
16960297

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