Medical Recipes (fragment).

Description

Title: Medical Recipes (fragment).
Published / Created: [between 1200 and 1210].
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of medical recipes, primarily of a gynecological nature; recipes include: medical recipes for tumors or swelling of the vulva; medical recipes for hardness of the breasts, ulcers, and cancers, increasing milk, so a girl will not grow breasts nor a boy testicles, and so that the hands and neck will be white; there are several undecipherable recipes and a portion of a poem in a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century hand on the sounds made by various animals
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in early gothic script (littera textualis); the added entries on fol. 2r are written in a French or Italian cursive hand from the second half of the fourteenth century; the upper portion of fol. 2v is written in littera textualis currens from the thirteenth century; the verses on animals are in a littera textualis from the latter thirteenth or early fourteenth century.
Decoration: punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Provenance: The bifolium was used as a pastedown in another binding.
Extent: ff. 1-2 : 152 x 109 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Formulas, recipes, etc
Manuscripts, Medieval
Medicine, Medieval
Subjects: Formulas, recipes, etc
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Medicine, Medieval
Italy > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Medical Recipes (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.