University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 2074

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2111

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 2074

Title:

Contra impedimiam.

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[circa 1400-1450]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 6 leaves : paper ; 202 x 140 (122 x 85) mm bound to 206 x 148 mm.

Note:

Watermark: Similar to Briquet Lettre A, 7901-7904, used in France, Germany, and Switzerland in the last decade of the 14th century and first half of the 15th century.
Ms. codex.
Origin: Possibly written in southern France (McKittrick) in the first half of the 15th century (watermark).
Title from
Binding: Modern half-vellum over boards.
Collation: Paper, ii (modern) + 6 + ii (modern); 1⁶; [1-6], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout:; Written in 22-24 long lines; ruled in lead; quarto format.
Script: Written in Gothic cursive script.
Decoration: Penwork initials at the beginning of paragraphs and 2 decorative line fillers (f. 1v, 2v).
The text of Paris, BNF lat. 7138, ff. 109-110 is published in Ernest Wickersheimer, "Jehan Jacme (Johannes Jacobi) et les régimes de pestilence qui portent son nom," Archivio di storia della scienza 6 (1925), 105-112.
Appears in Art Ancien S.A. Bibliotheca Medica. A Collection of 900 Medical Books, Prints and Broadsides of the 15th-19th Centuries, many recently removed from Great Public and Private Libraries including Numerous First Editions of Famous Physicians from Hippocrates to Freud (cat. 21, Zurich, 1937), number 703.
Appears in Jacques Rosenthal's Bibliotheca medii aevi manuscripta (Band 2): Einhundert Handschriften des Mittelalters vom zehnten bis zum fünfzehnten Jahrhundert (cat. 90, Munich, 1928), number 186.
Formerly owned by the Janus Foundation (president, history of science collector Haskell F. Norman), San Francisco (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Bruce McKittrick Rare Books (Narberth, Pennsylvania), 2021.
Appears in William H. Schab's cat. 16 (New York, 1952), number 78.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

prescriptions

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

Plague

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9978088285103681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3x34nb84/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania