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Title

De secretis mulierum

Authors

• Albertus Magnus

Call number

Ms. Codex 1136
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942706493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212623478
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4270649

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Germany

Summary

A copy of De secretis mulierum (also known as Secreta mulierum), a work frequently but erroneously attributed to Albertus Magnus since the late 13th century, with an unidentified commentary. Covers various issues of women's health. Some marginalia, cut off by page trimming. The first folio contains several other brief works.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from f. 54r.
   

Extent

54 leaves : 208 x 142 (173 x 111) mm. bound to 212 x 145 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 54 + i; [1-54]; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cloth.

Decoration

2-line to 8-line red initials throughout; capitals touched in red.

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by Robert Vivien (Paris), 1962.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine, Medieval
• Gynecology--Early works to 1800
• Human reproduction--Early works to 1800
• Women--Health and hygiene--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Paper
• Magic
• Science -- Medicine
• Miscellany

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — De coitu, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Artes mulierum, f. 1v
• fol. 1v — De meretrice, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — De secretis mulierum, f. 2r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 1r