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Title

Abscondita naturae

Authors

• Vida, Marco Girolamo, ca. 1485-1566

Other related names

• Settala, Ludovico, 1552?-1633, former owner
• Calvi, Sebastiano, 17th cent, former owner

Call number

LJS 458
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958073433503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/805417951
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5807343

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1545

Place

Cremona

Summary

Collection of over 400 recipes for medical, cosmetic, and culinary purposes, copied from both manuscript and printed sources. The medical recipes include treatments for the plague, syphilis, epilepsy, toothache, headache, scabies, eye ailments, fever, sciatica, and leprosy. A group of case studies are dated 1538 to 1545 (f. 24v-31v). An alphabetical index, dated 1545 like the text, is at the end of the volume (f. 188r-193r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. ii recto).
   

Extent

197 leaves : 208 x 150 (145 x 100) mm. bound to 214 x 165 mm

Foliation

Paper, 197 leaves; 1² 2-8²⁰ 9²⁴ 10²⁰ 11¹⁸(-7); [i-ii], 1-187, [188-195], foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (mid-16th-century) calf, blind-tooled, with later gilt armorial stamp on covers.

Layout

Written in 17-18 long lines.

Decoration

Strapwork and decorative lettering on title page (f. ii recto); occasional manicules (for example, f. 31v).

Script

Written in cursive script by Marco Girolamo Vida.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Milanese physician Ludovico Settala (coat of arms in ink, f. ii verso; armorial stamp on covers).
   
• 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).
   
• Sold by Martayan Lan (New York) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Oct. 2003.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Science -- Medicine
• Paper
• Recipe book
• Italy
• Italian

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 188r — Index, f. 188r

Decorations

• fol. 31v — Manicule, f. 31v