University of Pennsylvania, LJS 437

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DS ID:

DS677

Shelfmark:

LJS 437

Title:

De re medicina.

Author:

Platearius, Matthaeus, -1161

Matthaeus Platearius WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany or Austria

Germany TGN

Date:

[1400?]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 74 leaves : parchment ; 243 x 178 (195 x 128) mm bound to 249 x 193 mm

Former Owner(s):

Chrewczer, Pangracius

Pangracius Chrewczer WIKIDATA

Chrewczer, Cristoferus

Cristoferus Chrewczer WIKIDATA

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Caesareum Societatis Jesu Collegium Viennense

Caesareum Societatis Jesu Collegium Viennense WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from spine.
Origin: Written in southern Germany or Austria, ca. 1400.
Ms. codex.
Collation: Parchment, i (18th-century paper) + 74 + i (18th-century paper); 1-3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5-6¹⁰ 7⁸ 8¹⁰(-2); gatherings 3-7 signed III-VII, signatures of gatherings 1-2 cropped, lower center of last verso. Last gathering misbound, so leaves appear in order 1, 4, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 7, 10, with only stubs remaining from leaves 8 and 9.
Binding: 18th-century calf, gilt spine; paste paper doublures.
Script: Written in Gothic textura script by a single hand.
Decoration: 1 5-line and 1 6-line puzzle initial in red and blue with penwork infill and extensions in red and turquoise (f. 1r, 2r); 17 2-, 3-, and 6-line initials in blue with red flourishing or red with turquoise flourishing (f. 14r, 17r, 28r, 30v, 34v, 36v, 40r (6-line), 41v, 45v, 53r, 54v, 57r (6-line), 61r, 64v, 68v, 71v, 72r); many 1-, 2-, and 3-line initials in either red or blue; red...
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 32-35 lines; frame-ruled in ink. Prickings visible.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2002.
Formerly owned by the Caesareum Societatis Jesu Collegium Viennense (Jesuit college in Vienna), 1773.
Sold at auction as part of the Schönborn-Buchheim library at Reiss & Auvermann (Königstein), 12 Oct. 1993, lot 437.
Formerly owned by Pangracius Chrewczer and his son Cristoferus Chrewczer (written Chrewczuar in inscription), both professors of medicine (late 14th- or 15th-century inscription, f. 1r; exact match of the inscription in another late 14th/early 15th-century medical manuscript at the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Acc. Ms. 1969.4)

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Treatises

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

Medicinal plants

Materia medica, Vegetable

Medicine, Medieval

Medicine

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958065673503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p37w6d/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania