Manuscript, in two different unidentified hands, containing a collection of medical ingredients and recipes. Contains, in the first humanist hand, collection of medical recipes (ff. 1-21r) and a text of medical recipes against the plague by Mastro Tomasso da Garbo (ff. 21v-23v). In the second gothic hand, contains a a list of ingredients and their medical uses in Latin and Italian (ff. 24r-33r in Latin, ff. 24r-25r, 33r-51v in Italian).
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule and gothic textualis., Decoration: rubricated headings and rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 28 lines., Binding: contemporary vellum binding., Incipit text 1: Tolle una melagrana et mondala tucta et poi la pesta et trane el sugho... Heading text 2: El consiglio di Mastro Tomasso da Garbo contro la pestilentia. Incipit text 3: Verdolaghe. La verdolaga e de amorosa natura et de freda perche siando pistata et metuta sopra lo ventre tira la febre..., and Modern foliation in pencil.
Subject (Topic):
Recipes, Manuscripts, Materia medica, and Medicine
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing six medical treatises. Includes: Bartolomeo da Montagnana's De urinibus (ff. 1r-10r); prescriptions by an unknown author (ff. 11a-29v); Bartolomeo da Montagnana's De compositione et dosandi (ff. 30r-40v); Petri de Tussignano's Recepte (ff. 41r-68v); Antonio Guainiero's Gynaecologia (69a-102a); and Antonio Guainiero's De febribus (102v-138a). Some leaves torn without loss of text
Alternative Title:
Medical manuscript containing six treatises; copied by the same scribe in black ink, with some text in red and Book of prescriptions
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothica cursiva., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: double column of 43 lines., Binding: bound in modern printed paper with parchment flyleaves., and Colophon (second column of f. 102r): Die 20 octobris 1458 per me Faustinum.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Materia medica, Fever, Gynecology, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a description of several alchemical and medical ingredients and processes. Includes a table of contents, using alchemical symbols, on f. 1: Aurum potabile (ff. 1-4), Lapis animalis (ff. 4-14), Lapis Vegetabilis (ff. 14-19), Lapis mineralis (ff. 19-26), Aurum potabile (ff. 26-30), Tinctura cum mercurio (ff. 30-33), Tinctura magna (ff. 33-36), Das war Auz[] pota[]le (ff. 36-41), Testamentum Raimundi Lulii (ff. 41-58), [mercuriis?] corporibus, Sequitur solutiones, Tinctura animalis, Tinctura albedinis (ff. 77-80), Coagulatio Mercurii (ff. 80-82), De oro argento (ff. 82-83), Verus elixir (ff. 83-86), Secreta Antionii (ff. 86-92), Proiectio (ff. 92-99).
Description:
In Latin and German., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic cursiva., Decoration: headings in red ink. Spare rubrication., Layout: single column of around 17 lines., Binding: red vellum binding., and Foliation in later hand.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Manuscripts, Materia medica, Medicine, Medicine, Medieval, and Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
Guglielmo, da Saliceto, approximately 1210-1276 or 1277
Published / Created:
1473.
Call Number:
Manuscript 54 vault
Image Count:
734
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, on paper, in two unidentified hands, containing Guglielmo da Saliceto's Summa conservationis et curationis (ff. 1r-275r). Followed, in a third hand, by an alphabetical glossary of plants in Latin and German (ff. 275r-278r). Ends with the text of the Chirurgia (ff. 280-364), ending imperfectly. Texts of the Summa conservationes et curationis and of the Chirurgia were likely written separately in Italy, but bound in Germany
Alternative Title:
Summa conservationis & curatione : [and] cyrurgia
Description:
In Latin and German., Title from title page (front flyleaf)., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: double column of 51 lines., Binding: German 16th-century half blind-tooled pigskin binding over oak boards with two fore-edge brass clasps, with catches on the upper board. Lower board repaired with one clasp missing. Parchment binding stay (Germany, 15th-century) between ff. 10 and 11). Binding was rebacked and repaired in the 20th century; pastedown and flyleaf were added (watermark "P" with 4 petals on top, not located in Briquet). Leather spinal label with a gold-tooled title: "Guilielmi/ Placentini De [?]/ Saliceto Summa/ Conservationis/ Et Curationis/ 1473"., Title page has colophon: Wilhelmi Placentini medici de Saliceto summa conservationis et curationis -- item Chirurgia. 1473. Claruit auctor tempore Rudolphi I imp..., End of Summa (f. 275) has colophon: Explicit liber quart et ultimus practice phisicalis excellentissimi magistri guilhelmi piacentini 1473., and Two units foliated separately.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Surgery, Medieval
