Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, -1013?
Published / Created:
between 1400 and 1500.
Call Number:
Manuscript 48 vault
Image Count:
86
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a Latin translation of Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī's De cibis sanorum egrorum (ff. 1r-18v) and Bartholomaeus de Montagna's Antidotarium (ff. 19r-41v).
Alternative Title:
Taṣrīf li-man ʻajiza ʻan al-taʼlīf. Latin and De cibis sanorum egrorum : followed (on leaves 19-41) by Bartholomaeus de Montagna: Antidotarium
Description:
In Latin., Titles from headings on f. 1r and 19r., Script: minuscule., Layout: single column of 48 lines., Decoration: headings in red ink. Rubrication., Binding: modern printed paper binding., and The Albucasis part consists of the entire 26th chapter of his Kitab al-tasrif.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medical, Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Diet
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing an Italian translation of Antonio Guainerio's De venenis
Description:
In Italian., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist hand., Decoration: one six-line decorated initial in gold on rectangle border with floral decoration (f. 1r). Two-line initials in red and blue ink throughout. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 24 lines., Binding: 17th-18th c. deer skin over paper boards., and Watermark is a variant of Briquet 6597-6600, Northern Italy, 1465-80.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Venom
Illuminated manuscript herbal, on parchment, in several unidentified hand, containing a herbal in Italian (ff. 1r-49v), incipit: L'erba dicta astrologia o vere aristolatia... Followed by a collection of medical recipes in Italian (ff. 50r-152v), incipit: ungue[n]to da fare. Includes 16 botanical drawings in colored ink
Alternative Title:
Herbal : in Italian ; followed by Medical recipes (on leaves 51-152)
Description:
In Italian., Title devised by cataloger., Script: documentary hands., Layout: single column of varying length., Decoration: 16 botanical drawings: herba alebro biancho (f. 28r), herba pinpinella maiore (f. 28v), herba ceredonia (f. 29r), herba berthonica (f. 29v), herba coriola (f. 30r), herba lunaria minore (f. 30v), herba astologia rotonda (f. 31r), herba oculorum Christi (f. 31v), herba greiima (f. 32r), herba poliponice (f. 32v), herba trefolgi (f. 33r), herba rebarrum (f. 33v), herba siillo di santa maria (f. 34r), herba mandragola femena (f. 34v), herba madragola mascolo (f. 35r), herba dicta tirmitella (f. 35v), unidentified herb (f. 39v). Herbal rubricated., Binding: bound in modern vellum over paper boards., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Also available on microfilm.
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
Includes errata., Volume includes many marginal annotations by the early owner(s)., With this are: De sanitate tuenda / Galen: Parisiis: Guilielmum Rubeum, 1517; and two medical manuscripts written in Greek: Peri antidoton (De antidotis) / Galen, and Peri thes theriakes pros Pisona (De theriaca ad Pisonem) / Galen., and Both manuscripts likely written in the 1520's: c.f. correspondence from Herbert Reichner, dealer from whom Dr. Fulton purchased the volume in 1956.
Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Muʼmin, -1698, author حسىنى، محمد مؤمن، -1698 author
Published / Created:
19 Shaʻbān, 1124 H [21 September, 1712]
Call Number:
Manuscript Persian S-3
Image Count:
240
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Part 4 of Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn "Precious gift of the faithful" (an encyclopedic work on medicine and materia medica) of Muḥammad Muʼmin al-Ḥusaynī al-Tunukābunī (d. 1698), a prominent physician in Azerbaijan, originally composed for the Ṣafavid Shāh Ṣafī II Sulaymān (reigned 1666-1694). Part 4 (Tashkhīṣ-i rābiʻ) "Tadāvā-yi sumūm" is on poisons, their effects, how to avoid them, their remedies, kinds, etc. It was copied by Mullā Muʼmin Kashmīrī for ʻAbd Allāh Bīk Kūtvāl on 19 Shaʻbān 1124 (21 September, 1712) probably in Iran
Alternative Title:
Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn. Selections 880-02 and تحفة المؤمنين. Selections 240-02/r
Description:
In Persian., Incipit: "Tashkhīṣ-i rābiʻ dar tadāvā-yi sumūm. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Mushtamil ast bar panj faṣl. Faṣl-i avval dar tadabbur-i taʼs̲īr-i sumūm va iḥtirāz-i ān, faṣl-i duvvum tadābīr-i mushtarikah-i sumūm, faṣl-i sivvum dar sumūm-i mashrūbah ...", 13 x 23 cm ; written surface: 9.6 x 21 cm, 20 lines per page., Leather binding., In good nastaʻlīq script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with some markings in red; catchwords., and Colophon: "Tammat tamām shud bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb Tuḥfat al-muʼmīn ḥasab-i al-farmūdah ... ʻAbd Allāh Bīk Kūtvāl bi-yad-i faqīr al-ḥaqīr al-ʻabd al-mudhnib Mullā Mūmin Kashmīrī al-rājī ilá raḥmat Allāh al-Bārī ... taḥrīr fī al-tārīkh nūzdahum Shaʻbān al-muʻaẓẓam sanat 24 [i.e. 1124] ..."
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)., and 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.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, Therapeutics, Traditional medicine, and Recipes
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