University of Pennsylvania, LJS 198

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS145

Shelfmark:

LJS 198

Title:

De simplicibus

De simplicibus

Author:

Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311

Arnaldus de Villa Nova WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

between 1350 and 1380

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 21 leaves : parchment ; 178 x 135 (143 x 95) mm

Former Owner(s):

Stanitz, John D

John D. Stanitz WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; opening rubric uses title Aureole Arnaldi de Nova Villa novorum medicorum peritissimi (p. 1).
Collation: Parchment, 21 leaves; 118(-1) 24; [1-34, 1-8], modern pagination in pencil, lower inner corners.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 46 lines.
Script: Written in Gothic script by a single hand.
Decoration: 2-line initials, rubrication, and paragraph marks in red, with later additions of blue, green, or black penwork; concluding lists (p. 1-4 [=p. 35-38]) are also decorated with these later colors.
Origin: Written in Spain between 1350 and 1380.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), cat. 2 (1993), no. 23, to John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 29.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

Materia medica, Vegetable

Early works

Medicinal plants

Medicine

Medicine, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9953161073503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3jg62/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania