Bryn Mawr College, MS 14
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16517
- Shelfmark:
- MS 14
- Title:
- Antidotarium
- Nicolaus, Salernitanus, active 12th century
- Place:
- England?
- Date:
- 1375-1399
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- Parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 55; 188 x 140 mm bound to 208 x 138 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951
- Note:
- Previously Goodhart 91
Marginal notations in the same hand throughout
Binding: Original parchment binding, single sheet folded at top and bottom and sewn with thread, outside of spine reinforced with leather strip sewn to parchment
Layout: Single column, twenty-four ruled lines with single vertical and upper horizontal bounding lines and double lower horizontal bounding lines, full across in ink; prickings visible in all three outer margins
Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata
Decoration: Three- or four-line initials with red penwork flourishes marking text divisions; smaller two-line initials and paragraph markers in red throughout
Related resource: Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 435, no. 14.
Related resource: Goltz, Dietlinde. Mittelalterliche pharmazie und medizin: dargest. an geschichte und inhalt des Antidotarium Nicolai, (Stuttgart, 1976).
Provenance: The text is attributed to Nicholas of Salerno (Nicolaus Salernitanus), an Italian physician, and was composed in the first half of the twelfth century; this copy probably written in England, in the last quarter of the fourteenth century; early provenance unknown; on fol. 33v, bookplate of "Hale of Alderly," Gloucester, England, dated '41; purchased from Maggs (typed description on... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS14.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS14/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
