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Metadata

DS ID:

DS114

Shelfmark:

LJS 236

Title:

Thesaurus pauperum ... [etc.

Thesaurus pauperum

Author:

John XXI, Pope, -1277

John XXI WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1450-1499?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with one section (f. 267r-272r) and some recipes, notes, and names in Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illustrations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 233 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 147 x 104 (92-95 x 66-69) mm bound to 147 x 118 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from explicit for predominant work (f. 101r).
Collation: Paper, 233 + i (11th-century parchment); 110(-2) 2-1110 1210(-2) 1310(-8) 1410(-4) 1512(-5) 16-2110 2212 2312(-3) 2410(-1) 2512; early foliation in ink, [1], 2-8, 11-69, 80-89, 100-138, 149-151, 154-157, 160-167, 173-212, 113, 214-247, 251-263, 265-278 (f. 9-10, 139-148, 152-153, 158-159, 168-172 torn out), upper right recto. Catchwords on the last verso of gatherings 2-11, 13-14...
Layout: Written in 31-35 long lines; some pages frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in Gothic cursive script by at least 3 hands.
Decoration: Diagram of chemical apparatus in text (f. 260r); rough drawings in ink of faces (f. 167v); spaces left for 2-line and 3-line initials, with guide letters
Binding: Original (15th-century) parchment with 5 metal bosses on each cover and remnants of a clasp; title Thesaurus pauperum partially visible on the upper cover in ink; attachment of covers to spine and binding to manuscript very fragile. Back flyleaf and pastedown are formed from a fragment from a mid-11th-century German homiliary; the text is from Pope Leo I's Sermon 42, on Quadragesima.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in the second half of the 15th century.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

diagrams

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

prescriptions

drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Italian

recipes

Medicine

Early works

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958895573503681

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https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3wk8z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania