University of Pennsylvania, LJS 458

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS695

Shelfmark:

LJS 458

Title:

Abscondita naturae : collecta ab diversis philosophorum et medicorum voluminibus /

Author:

Vida, Marco Girolamo, approximately 1485-1566

Marco Girolamo Vida WIKIDATA

Place:

Cremona

Cremona TGN

Date:

1545.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 197 leaves : paper ; 208 x 150 (145 x 100) mm bound to 214 x 165 mm

Former Owner(s):

Settala, Ludovico, 1552?-1633

Ludovico Settala WIKIDATA

Calvi, Sebastiano, 17th century

Sebastiano Calvi WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from title page (f. ii recto).
Origin: Written in Cremona in 1545 (title page, f. ii recto).
Binding: Contemporary (mid-16th-century) calf, blind-tooled, with later gilt armorial stamp on covers.
Foliation: Paper, 197 leaves; 1² 2-8²⁰ 9²⁴ 10²⁰ 11¹⁸(-7); [i-ii], 1-187, [188-195], foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 17-18 long lines.
Script: Written in cursive script by Marco Girolamo Vida.
Decoration: Strapwork and decorative lettering on title page (f. ii recto); occasional manicules (for example, f. 31v).
Ms. codex.
Formerly owned by Milanese physician Ludovico Settala (coat of arms in ink, f. ii verso; armorial stamp on covers).
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Sold by Martayan Lan (New York) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Oct. 2003.
Formerly owned by the physician Sebastiano Calvi, who received the manuscript as a gift from Giacomo Filippo Scaravaggi (probably of Milan) in 1685 (inscription, f. i recto).

Keyword:

recipes

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

Early works

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958073433503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p34x54h38/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania