University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 133

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DS ID:

DS1054

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 133

Title:

De coloribus urinae ... etc..

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[between 1525 and 1575]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian, in the Northeastern (Venetian?) vernacular

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 21 leaves : paper ; 208 x 153 (162 x 97) mm bound to 218 x 153 mm

Former Owner(s):

Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein, 1906-1989

Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Many smudges and stains. The leaves appear to have been trimmed before the manuscript was bound; the folio numbers are clipped, and some folios show traces of a heading on the upper recto that was trimmed away.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in the mid-16th century (ca. 1540-1550?).
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Translator's name given in colophon (f. 9r) as Gioan Francesco Ymolensis. In the description of this manuscript by the dealer H. P. Kraus he is called Giovanni Francesco Imolensis. Zacour-Hirsch gives the latinized form Johannes Franciscus Imolensis. He could not be further identified under any of these names.
First work, incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Lo medico voglando havere cognicione dele orine ... (f. 9r) una fiada se demostra terma natura.
First work, colophon: (f. 9r) Le conpido uno belissimo libro trattado de orine, el quale yo Gioan Francesco Ymolensis de Latino lo trasforido in volgare de lo anno del nostro Senior 1429. Indicione una addi ultimo de mayo in millesimo sopra scri[?]tto per uso de maistro bonissimo cirviano.
Second work, incipit and explicit: (f. 9v) Recipe de questa polvere ... (f. 11r) in una gamba in crobavia eitraura.
Third work, incipit and explicit: (f. 13r) Recipe agarico masticis ... (f. 13v) de guma dragante.
Fourth work, incipit and explicit: (f. 14r) Inguento baselicon. Recipe cera bianca ... (f. 17v) et fauno sachetto.
Collation: Paper, 21; 1²²( -1); [v], 1-11, 13-16, [17]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Last folio appears to be numbered 12; however, it does not seem to out of place.
Script: Written in a northern Italian cancelleresca script by what appears to be a single hand.
Watermarks: Anchor and monogram PM with star.
Binding: 18th-century Italian paper over cardboard with vellum spine.
Sold by Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein as part of a large collection from the Prince Liechtenstein Library to H. P. Kraus (New York), 1949.
Sold by H. P. Kraus to the E. F. Smith Memorial Collection, University of Pennsylvania; transferred to the Rare Book & Manuscript Library as part of the E. F. Smith Memorial Collection, 1969.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian

recipes

prescriptions

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Urine--Analysis

Medicine

History

Chemistry

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915517583503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p30p18/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania