University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 24
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS125
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize LJS 24
- Title:
- Medical miscellany
- Author:
- Israeli, Isaac, approximately 832-approximately 932
- Place:
- Paris
- Date:
- between 1225 and 1275
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 149 leaves : parchment ; 278 x 196 (188 x 125-127) mm bound to 293 x 211 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Dysart, Lionel Tollemache, Earl of, 1708-1770
Tollemache, Bentley Lyonel John Tollemache, Baron, 1883-1955
Robinson, Philip
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, ii (18th-century paper) + 149 + ii (18th-century paper); 114(-1) 22 310 4-712 812(-1) 912(-2) 10-1312 1410(-3); gatherings 3, 6, and 12 have horizontal catchwords (f. 25v, 61v, 130v); gatherings 3, 4, and 8 have letters on the rectos in the first half of each gathering (starting f. 16r, 26r, 75r); gathering 4 is signed II (f. 37v). Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 44-47 lines; frame-ruled in faint ink with double vertical bounding lines.
Script: Written in Gothic script.
Decoration: 1 8-line miniature of a Dominican doctor teaching clerics (f. 1r); 11 inhabited initials (Dominican doctor taking a pulse, f. 6r; Dominican doctor possibly with an abstract representation of Gilles de Corbeil's four essential parts of the body (Mountford), f. 7v; laymen at a feast, f. 16r; Dominican doctor, servant, and patient, f. 65r; Dominican doctor teaching laymen, f. 91r...
Binding: Early 18th-century mottled calf, gilt with Dysart arms on covers and spine label Theorica practica.
Origin: Written in Paris in the mid-13th century.
Formerly owned by Lionel Tollemache, Earl of Dysart (Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, arms on covers; Dysart armorial stamp, f. 15v) in the 18th century and by his descendants through Bentley Lyonel John Tollemache (third Baron Tollemache).
Sold privately to the Robinson Brothers after the death of Baron Tollemache in 1955 and held in the private library of Philip Robinson.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 6 Dec. 1993, lot 53.
Appears in Jörn Günther Antiquariat's Mittelalterliche Handschriften und Miniaturen (1995), no. 4.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd., cat. 16 (1995), no. 46, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9952666523503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p37w6764x/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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