Binding: Not bound. Other decoration, f. 1r-v: 2-line blue initial with red flourishing; red (and some blue) paragraph marks; 1-line initials within the text stroked in red; red rubric; running headlines alternating red and blue characters. Script, f. 1r-v: Gothic. Layout, f. 1r-v: 2 columns of 49 lines.
Former Owner(s):
This collection of English binding fragments was given to NYU by Homer Lewis Bartlett (1858-1940), who graduated in 1884 from NYU with a degree in Science and Civil Engineering; he married Clarice Sherman Noble in 1892; they had five children.
by 1902, he was second vice-president of the Eastern District Savings Bank. De Ricci states that the collection (of 101 fragments with 70 others laid into the album) was given to NYU in 1884 (the same year in which Homer L. Bartlett graduated).
Note:
Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1346. f. 1r-v: Abu-Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Divisiones Rasis filii zacharie, Viaticum Constantini monachi (Lyon 1510) ff. 51v-53v for Book 4, chapters 16 and 17. Incipit, f. 1r-v: cum aqua calida cum sirupo de absinthio quod si non valeat detur catarticum//. Explicit, f. 1r-v: //an ex apostemate calido sit perquiramus et demus in eo cassiatur catarticum.
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