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Title

Medical miscellany

Other related names

• Fugger, Ulricus, 1526-1584, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 195
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958589513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/818796149
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5858951

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle High German, with some Latin

Origin

Date

between 1450 and 1499

Place

Germany

Summary

Medical compilation with a particular focus on the plague, but also including information on diseases of different parts of the body, urine, medicines, laxatives, water and wine, and the making of pigments for painting and inks for writing (f. 209r-215r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

326 leaves : 148 x 96 (119-124 x 75-80) mm. bound to 155 x 116 mm

Collation

Paper, 326; 1¹⁶(-1, front pastedown) 2¹²(-1) 3¹² 4¹⁶ 5²⁰ 6¹⁶ 7¹⁴ 8¹⁰ 9-13¹⁴ 14¹⁰ 15¹⁴ 16¹⁶ 17¹¹ 18-24¹² 25⁸(-1, back pastedown); [i-xiv, 1], 2-37, 36, 38-47, 45, 48, 47, 49-52, 44, 53-255, 260-280, [i], 281-305, [306-311], contemporary foliation in ink in 2 schemes, the older in red ink upper center recto, and later in black ink, upper right recto. References in this record are to the black foliation, unless only red foliation is present.

Support

Paper

Binding

Limp parchment, a leaf from a 15th-century liturgical manuscript; paper spine.

Layout

Written in 21-25 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrication, underlining, and paragraph marks in red; initials touched with red.

Script

Written in Gothic cursive script by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Ulricus Fugger, shelfmark XVIII K 9 (upper left, upper cover).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 23 June 1992, lot 67.
   
• Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), Apr. 1993.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 26.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Medieval
• Pigments--Early works to 1800
• Plague--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Anthologies
• Manuscripts, German--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Anthology
• 15th century
• Paper
• German
• Germany
• Science -- Medicine
• Paper

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 302v — Manicule, f. 302v