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Metadata

DS ID:

DS677

Shelfmark:

LJS 437

Title:

De re medicina

Circa instans

Author:

Platearius, Matthaeus, -1161

Matthaeus Platearius WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany or Austria

Germany TGN

Austria TGN

Date:

1400?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

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:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
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.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 32-35 lines; frame-ruled in ink. Prickings visible.
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...
Binding: 18th-century calf, gilt spine; paste paper doublures.
Origin: Written in southern Germany or Austria, ca. 1400.
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)
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.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2002.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

Manuscripts, Medieval

Materia medica, Vegetable

Early works

Medicinal plants

Medicine

Medicine, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958065673503681

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https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p37w6d/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania