New York Academy of Medicine, MS 03

Metadata

DS ID:

DS11404

Shelfmark:

MS 03

Title:

De primarum qualitatum arcanis et effectibus
Notanda ex canonibus
De impressionibus

Author:

Urso of Salerno

Urso of Calabria WIKIDATA

Yuhanna ibn Masawaih

Masawaiyh WIKIDATA

Theophrastus

Theophrastus WIKIDATA

Lapo da Castiglionchio

Lapo da Castiglionchio WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

First half of the sixteenth century

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 35; paper; 210 x 158; 212 x 145; 190 x 126; 214 x 135

Note:

Layout: Long lines
Script: Cursive
Binding: Not bound.
Four packets of folded sheets of paper.
Number of scribes: 1 (but 4th text, ff. 32-35v, by a different hand?)
The 4 pieces break down: i, ff. 1-12v; ii, ff. 13-16v; iii, ff. 17-31v; iv, ff. 32-35v; of these, the 3rd is in 2 hands
MS 03, pt. 55 (IX). Roger Bacon, De retardatione accidentium senectutis et de sensibus conservandis. Item, Libellus Ursonis medici, de primarum qualitatum arcanis et effectibus . . .
(Oxford: Officina typographica Iosephi Barnesii, 1590), available via Early English Books Online, with the complete text of Urso on its pp. 1-29 (images 21-35) of the 88 images occupied by the full volume;
the text in this manuscript ends incomplete on p. 20 (image 31) of the EEBO copy, Cap. 3, De siccitatis effectibus, line 12. Formerly catalogued under the author name, Constantinus Casinensis.
MS 03, pt. 56 (XII). On ff. 13v-14 and 14v-15, numerous “distinctiones” on medical matters such as types of blood and colors of urine; ff. 15v-18v blank
MS 03, pt. 57 (XI).
MS 03, pt. 58 (X). Theophrastus, De impressionibus (or: Characteres) in the Latin translation by Lapo da Castiglionchio, here only with chapter 1 and excerpts from chapters 2-15 (of the total of 15 chapters in the book).
See Müllner, "Zur humanistischen Übersetzungsliteratur: Fortsetzung," Wiener Studien 24 (1902) 216-230,
for the ed. of this translation that includes a dedication, not present in this manuscript, by Lapo da Castiglionchio (ca. 1406-1438) to “Franciscus Patavinus” (presumably Giovanni Francesco da Legname, 1420-1493, as stated in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, s.v.Lapo).
P. O. Kristeller, Iter italicum, 5:324.

Keyword:

treatises

Medicine

Holding Institution:

New York Academy of Medicine