Illuminated manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, including a collection of forty-six texs concerning classical and medieval medicine and surgery and Includes: Ysagoge Joanicii ad tegni Galeni (ff. 1-14), Liber aphorismorum Ypocratis (ff. 14-30), Pronosticorum Ypocratis liber (ff. 30-40), Liber urinarum Theophili (ff. 40-53), Philareti de negotio pulsuum (ff. 53-57), Tegni Galieni (ff. 57-91), Anatomia Ricardi (ff. 91-104), Anatomia Mauri (ff. 104-107), Anonymous tract on bloodletting (ff. 107-108), Versus urinarum Egidii (ff. 109-113), Egidius de pulsibus (ff. 113-118), Galen's De medicinis experimentatis (ff. 121-140), Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum (ff. 141-152), Aphorismi Joannis Damasceni (ff. 153-159), Hippocrates' de aqua et aere (ff. 161-172), Hippocrates' de veritate (ff. 172-175), Hippocrates' de secreta (ff. 175-177), Isaac Judaeus' De diaetis (ff. 181-268), Liber de ponderibus (ff. 268-270), Geraldus' De signis digestionum (ff. 270-329), Liber divisionum Arazi (ff. 331-469), Synonyma (ff. 470-477), Cirurgia (ff. 479-636), Rasis' de doloribus iuncturarum (ff. 639-664), Rasis' de curis puerorum (ff. 664-671), Collection of medical recipes (ff. 671-675), De virtute visibili (ff. 675-683), Tacuinum sanitatis (ff. 685-768), De mineralibus (ff. 769-772), Epistola Ameti filii Abrahe de proprietatibus (ff. 773-780), Liber vaccae (ff. 781-811), Cirurgia Bruni (ff. 813-924), Cirurgia Bruni brevis (ff. 924-941), Cirurgia Rolandi (ff. 943-1018), Roger de Barone Major et minor de medicamentia (ff. 1019-1168), Macer de virtutibus herbarum (ff. 1171-1197), De vertutibus gemmarum (ff. 1197-1201), Liber herbolarii (ff. 1203-1317), Isagoge Dauci (ff. 1319-1325), Guillelmi falconerii (ff. 1325-1329), De cura equorum (ff. 1330-1375), Regulae equorum (ff. 1375-1377), Recipes in 14th- and 15th-century hands (ff. 1378).
Alternative Title:
Paneth codex
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic textualis., Decoration: heavily decorated throughout. Texts generally start with historiated initial showing authorial portrait (ff. 1, 8, 12, 15, 29, 46, 54, 57, 61, 71, 77, 86, 88, 91, 108, 137, 219, 240, 252, 301, 320, 343, 462, 407, 439, 472, 489, 507, 510, 560, 571, 579, 582, 586, 602, 660, 665). Other miniatures of numerous medical instruments and other scenarios can be found throughout the manuscript as historiated initials, paragraph markers, or in the margins (e.g. f. 52: pig slaughtered for dissection(?); f. 81: of Aquarius). Varying fantastical animals and creatures in the margins. Also includes a number of rectangular tables containing dietary information. Headings rubricated, subheadings in alternating blue and red letters. Two- to three-line initials in alternating blue and red ink with penwork in contrasting colors. Rubrication., Layout: double column of 43 lines., Binding: modern light brown leather binding over wooden boards with four clasps., Perhaps commissioned in Bologna for the University of Prague. Ornamental documentation may have been started in Bologna, but finished by a Bohemian artist later., Incipits identified by Peter Murray Jones, 2003., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Phlebotomy, Recipes, Surgery, Medieval, Urine, and Veterinary medicine
Illuminated manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, including a collection of forty-six texs concerning classical and medieval medicine and surgery and Includes: Ysagoge Joanicii ad tegni Galeni (ff. 1-14), Liber aphorismorum Ypocratis (ff. 14-30), Pronosticorum Ypocratis liber (ff. 30-40), Liber urinarum Theophili (ff. 40-53), Philareti de negotio pulsuum (ff. 53-57), Tegni Galieni (ff. 57-91), Anatomia Ricardi (ff. 91-104), Anatomia Mauri (ff. 104-107), Anonymous tract on bloodletting (ff. 107-108), Versus urinarum Egidii (ff. 109-113), Egidius de pulsibus (ff. 113-118), Galen's De medicinis experimentatis (ff. 121-140), Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum (ff. 141-152), Aphorismi Joannis Damasceni (ff. 153-159), Hippocrates' de aqua et aere (ff. 161-172), Hippocrates' de veritate (ff. 172-175), Hippocrates' de secreta (ff. 175-177), Isaac Judaeus' De diaetis (ff. 181-268), Liber de ponderibus (ff. 268-270), Geraldus' De signis digestionum (ff. 270-329), Liber divisionum Arazi (ff. 331-469), Synonyma (ff. 470-477), Cirurgia (ff. 479-636), Rasis' de doloribus iuncturarum (ff. 639-664), Rasis' de curis puerorum (ff. 664-671), Collection of medical recipes (ff. 671-675), De virtute visibili (ff. 675-683), Tacuinum sanitatis (ff. 685-768), De mineralibus (ff. 769-772), Epistola Ameti filii Abrahe de proprietatibus (ff. 773-780), Liber vaccae (ff. 781-811), Cirurgia Bruni (ff. 813-924), Cirurgia Bruni brevis (ff. 924-941), Cirurgia Rolandi (ff. 943-1018), Roger de Barone Major et minor de medicamentia (ff. 1019-1168), Macer de virtutibus herbarum (ff. 1171-1197), De vertutibus gemmarum (ff. 1197-1201), Liber herbolarii (ff. 1203-1317), Isagoge Dauci (ff. 1319-1325), Guillelmi falconerii (ff. 1325-1329), De cura equorum (ff. 1330-1375), Regulae equorum (ff. 1375-1377), Recipes in 14th- and 15th-century hands (ff. 1378).
Alternative Title:
Paneth codex
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic textualis., Decoration: heavily decorated throughout. Texts generally start with historiated initial showing authorial portrait (ff. 1, 8, 12, 15, 29, 46, 54, 57, 61, 71, 77, 86, 88, 91, 108, 137, 219, 240, 252, 301, 320, 343, 462, 407, 439, 472, 489, 507, 510, 560, 571, 579, 582, 586, 602, 660, 665). Other miniatures of numerous medical instruments and other scenarios can be found throughout the manuscript as historiated initials, paragraph markers, or in the margins (e.g. f. 52: pig slaughtered for dissection(?); f. 81: of Aquarius). Varying fantastical animals and creatures in the margins. Also includes a number of rectangular tables containing dietary information. Headings rubricated, subheadings in alternating blue and red letters. Two- to three-line initials in alternating blue and red ink with penwork in contrasting colors. Rubrication., Layout: double column of 43 lines., Binding: modern light brown leather binding over wooden boards with four clasps., Perhaps commissioned in Bologna for the University of Prague. Ornamental documentation may have been started in Bologna, but finished by a Bohemian artist later., Incipits identified by Peter Murray Jones, 2003., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Phlebotomy, Recipes, Surgery, Medieval, Urine, and Veterinary medicine
A male figure composed of utensils used in the business of an apothecary holds in one "hand" a volume titled, 7. Frauds detected in drugs, and in the other a scroll inscribed: "We are all in the dumps, our bill is rejected and flung out." Under the apothecary's "belt," formed by the barrel's hoop, is secured a paper inscribed "Quincys Dispensary." The utensils making up the figure are numbered, and the key identifying them is engraved below the image of the figure. The whole is enclosed in an ornamental cartouche. Reference to an Apothecaries' petition
Description:
Title from item., Date based on reference in the image to a pamphlet published in 1748 and a failed bill of the same year. See Frauds detected, or, Considerations offered to the public : shewing the necessity of some more effectual provision against deceits, differences, and incertainties in drugs ..., One of a series of prints representing various tradesmen made up from tools of their own trade., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Manuscript, on paper and parchment, in a single hand, of a Middle English translation of de Chauliac's treatise on surgery and other aspects of practical medical treatment, particularly of wounds
Description:
In Middle English., Support: mixed. 101 paper leaves, 52 parchment leaves., Layout: double columns of 54 lines., Script: cursive bookhand., Decoration: seven large decorated initials; numerous smaller initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: fifteenth-century blind-stamped full calf over wooden boards, rebacked; remains of later hardware. BInder's label on back pastedown: W. H. Woods & Co. / Manchester / 1879.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Guy, de Chauliac, approximately 1300-1368.
Subject (Topic):
English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medicine, Medieval, and Surgery
A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Doctor Rock (Richard Rock 1690-1777) was an itinerant medicine vendor who frequented the London areas of St. Pauls and Covent Garden. He was famous for his "anti-venereal, grand, specifick pill". He was satirised in several caricatures: W. Hogarth represented him in A harlot's progress pl. V; The march to Finchley; and The four times of the day, morning and "A fashionably-dressed man kneels in profile to the left at a large chest of 'Patent Medecines', on which is a duck with the inscription 'Quack. Quack. Quack' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 5766]. A hanging candelabra and a festooned curtain indicate wealth. He prays to the shade of Dr. Rock, describes the composition of his famous Vegetable Drops, and asks for the continuance of 'my Carriages and Equipage, my Town and Country Residence, and all other good things of this life ...'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Publisher from imprints present on other plates in the series. For information on the series, see page 51 in v. 8. of the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Date of publication from Grego., and Twenty-one lines of letterpress text below title: Illustrious shade of the renowned Dr. Rock, still continue, I beseech thee ...
Publisher:
R. Ackermann and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Rock, Richard, 1690-1777 and Doctor Botherum.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Selling, Drugs, Medicine, Chests, Ducks, Costume, Candelabra, Draperies, Prayer, Quacks, and Patent medicines
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., First line: "Gentlemen, I Waltho Van Clauturbank, high German doctor,"., In two columns with the title in three lines centered above both and the imprint presented as four lines of verse below columns; the columns are separated by a plain rule and enclosed in a border., Full imprint in verse: Printed at No. 41 take notice pray, Leadenhall-Street, the little a, London is needless, without doubt, only it makes the metre out., Below second column: (Price one penny)., Mounted on leaf 71. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
Printed at No. 41 ... Leadenhall-Street, the little a, London
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
Manuscript, written with black, red, and blue ink on vellum, includes 3 leaves in front and 5 leaves at end upon which are written an index and materia medica in a later [Italian?] hand. and Purchased in 1958 from Lathrop C. Harper Inc. as a gift to Yale Med from the Library Associates.
Manuscript, in the hands of Camillus Venetus (ff. 1-68) and his teacher Andreas Darmarius (ff. 68-155), containing books I and II of Ibn al-Jazzar's Viaticum peregrinantium, a translation from Arabic into Greek
Alternative Title:
Viaticum peregrinantium / Ibn al-Jazzar ; books 1-2 translated by Synesios ; manuscript written in Greek by Andreas Darmarius 4 July 1585
Description:
In Ancient Greek., Title from heading., Script: 16th-century hand (Camillus Venetus and Adreas Darmarius)., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 18 lines., Binding: bound in blind-staped olive sheep. (The same style and color as Medical MS 32.), Text includes books 1 and 2 only (of seven)., Colophon by Andreas Darmarius included at the end (f. 155r): Ὑπὸ Ἀνδρέου Δαρμαρίου τοῦ Ἐπιδαυρίου ἐν τῷ ἔτει αφπε ἰουλλίῳ δ (Hypo Andreou Darmariou tou Epidauriou en tō etei aphpe ioulliō d)., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
