Thesaurus pauperum

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Description

Title
Thesaurus pauperum
Creator
John XXI, Pope, -1277
Contributor
Constantine, the African, approximately 1020-1087.
Published / Created
beteen 1400 and 1499.
Publication Place
France
Abstract

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).
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.
Provenance
Formerly owned by John Edward Hamilton Tollemache of Helmingham Hall, Suffolk. His sale (Sotheby's, London, 1961 June 6, lot 17). Yale Med purchased from Maggs Bros., Ltd of London: c.f. dealer's note dated 7 September 1961.
Extent
1 item (192 leaves) : 210 mm x 150 mm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Latin
English, Middle (1100-1500)

Collection Information

Repository
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Call Number
Manuscript 56 vault

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Herbals
Manuscript waste
Medical formularies
Printed waste
Material
paper ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Topic)
Materia medica
Medicine
Manuscripts
Medicine, Medieval
Therapeutics
Traditional medicine
Recipes
Subjects
Materia medica > Early works to 1800
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval > Early works to 1800
Therapeutics > Early works to 1800
Traditional medicine > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions > Early works to 1800
Recipes > Early works to 1800

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
4405965
Object ID (OID)
16960333

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