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Title

Recueil de diverses recettes médécinales

Call number

LJS 220
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958854883503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/824488493
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5885488

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle French, with some sections in Latin (f. 77r-81v, 85v-87r, 93r-98r, 137v, 141r)

Origin

Date

between 1475 and 1490

Place

France

Summary

Collection of medical preparations for a wide variety of ailments, including headaches, eye problems, toothaches, animal bites, gout, and pleurisy, with more general introductory material on the four elements, the four humors, the signs of the zodiac, and the planets.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from later inscription (f. 2r).
   

Extent

147 leaves : 200 x 144 (138 x 85) mm. bound to 208 x 150 mm

Collation

Paper, 147; 1-2¹² 3¹⁰ 4-7¹² 8¹²(-1) 9¹²(-1) 10¹⁴(-1) 11-12¹² ii 13⁴; [1-147], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 12-55 with early foliation in roman numerals, 1-44). Catchwords on gatherings 4-7 and 9-12, last verso, lower center or lower right (f. 46v, 58v, 70v, 82v, 104v, 117, 129v, 141v). References in this record are to modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Original (late 15th-century) boards with remnants of original calf binding; remnant of a boss, central lower cover; spine and clasp lacking.

Layout

Written in 22-26 long lines; mostly frame-ruled in faint ink, some with double horizontal bounding lines. Pricking visible on one leaf (f. 24).

Script

Written in Gothic cursive script by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Les Enluminures, 1997.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 51.
   
• 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

Genres

• Codices
• Prescriptions
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, French--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• France
• French
• Science -- Medicine
• Paper
• Astronomy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Four elements, f. 1r
• fol. 3r — La table de cest present livre, f. 3r
• fol. 6v — Four humors, signs of the zodiac, planets, days of the week, f. 6v
• fol. 13r — La maniere et la science de scavoir lensaignement de lexamen de la ville de montpellier, f. 13r
• fol. 23v — Les remidez pour les maladis et pour les enfermetez, f. 23v
• fol. 66r — Medical recipes in French and Latin, f. 66r
• fol. 85r — Table of ailments and medicines (De aquis) in Latin, f. 85r
• fol. 87v — Table of herbs and ailments in French, f. 87v
• fol. 90v — Medical and chemical recipes in French and Latin, f. 90v
• fol. 98v — Les proprietes de plusieurs herbis, f. 98v
• fol. 138v — Medical recipes, f. 138v