University of Pennsylvania, LJS 421

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS665

Shelfmark:

LJS 421

Title:

Letter from Hippocrates to Caesar.

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[between 1350 and 1375?]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Old French

Old French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 24 leaves : parchment ; 180 x 112 (126 x 83) mm bound to 189 x 124 mm

Former Owner(s):

Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855

Joseph Barrois WIKIDATA

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in France, probably in the third quarter of the 14th century.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Parchment, 24 ; [1-24] ; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 23-24 long lines ; ruled in ink; some prickings visible.
Binding: 19th-century brown calf, gilt framed, gilt lettering on spine.
Decoration: 2-line initial in red with red filigraine infill and descender (f. 1r); 2-line initials and paragraph marks in red.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Jul. 2001.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of the Ashburnham collection, 10 June 1901, lot 277; handled subsequently by J. & J. Leighton (London) and Messers. Berkelouw (Sydney).
Formerly owned by Joseph Barrois; sold by Barrois to Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (Ashburnham no. 239), 1849.

Keyword:

Fiction

codices (bound manuscripts)

Prescriptions

Manuscripts, French

Manuscripts, Medieval

Caesar, Julius

Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Medicine, Medieval

Medicine

Early works

Hippocrates

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9946263053503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p31d26/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania