The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 47753

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9981

Shelfmark:

mssHM 47753

Title:

Selections from Opera medicinalia

Author:

Pseudo-Mesuë

Masawaih WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1485 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 191 : paper ; 212 × 136 (125 × 80) mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Selections from the Opera medicinalia of Pseudo-Mesuë (i.e. Johannes Mesuë the Younger, supposed to have been a Jacobite Christian living in the 10th cent., but now believed to been a Latin author of the early 13th cent. using the name Mesuë) written in Italy at the end of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: 1-191. Support: Paper. Layout: 16 2-410 510(-6, after f. 41 with loss of text) 610 710(-a leaf in the second half of the quire; excised?) 8-910 2010(-8, 9, 10). Catchwords written vertically along inner bounding line. 2 columns of 26 lines faintly ruled in lead. Written in a running hand with humanistic forms; the first line of each chapter in an oversize gothic display script.
Decoration: Opening initial, f. 7, 6-line, in gold on a parted dark pink and blue ground with a floral band border of vines and flowers the length of the text; opening initial of chapter list, f. 7v, 4-line, in gold with red flourishing and infilling; 3- and 2-line initials alternating red and light blue; initials within the text filled in yellow; rubrics; alternating red and blue paragraph marks.
On ff. 8, 17, 49, in the upper margin, in a 16th cent. hand, "Iesus"; on f. 36 upside down in the lower margin, in a later (?) hand, "Al Molto Magnifico Signor."
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
The ex libris of a sixteenth century owner has been cancelled on f. 7, but it appears to be the same name as on f. 6: "Ioannes Maglionus semper tenere cupit." Inscription on f. 3, in the same hand as the note on f. 36: "All Magnifico Signor Claudio et Claudina Maria." On the front pastedown, the armorial bookplate of Noel F. Barwell, with his motto "Non minus sed solus quam eum solus" and the...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Materia medica

Medicine

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862213

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52782/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens