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Title

Ricettario

Authors

• Nola, Giovanni da
• Bernardinus, scribe

Call number

Ms. Codex 115
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915805133503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122490965
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580513

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian and Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1530

Place

Italy

Summary

Collection of remedies against a great variety of ills, sometimes indicating the source of the information. Begins imperfectly. Several sources are indicated: Alcuin (p. 3); Conte De'Altavilla (p. 12); Conte de Urbino (p. 17); Raynaldo de Villanova (p. 22); and Duca de Calabria (pp. 48, 50). The last two recipes are slightly later additions (p. 62).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch); p. 61 attributes it to Johannes de Nola. This might be the 16th-century writer Giovanni Andrea Nola.
   
• Badly stained in upper inner corner of each page; this stain has caused some text on each page to become faded or obliterated. Possible mildew damage on upper inner edge of parchment cover. Dealer's description suggests this might be due to a chemical spilled on the manuscript by an alchemist.
   
• Short dealer's description in Italian on file in the Library; probably from Olschki catalogue, 9/26/1957.
   
• Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
   

Extent

29 leaves : 147 x 110 (110 x 80) mm. bound to 151 x 113 mm

Collation

Paper, 29; 1³⁰(-1); 3-40, 43-62; contemporary pagination in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

bound in a parchment manuscript fragment of an unnoted hymnal, German, mid 13th century (includes St. Elizabeth of Hungary, canonized in 1235). Binding work appears to be contemporary with the manuscripts.

Decoration

Red used for headings.

Script

Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand; scribe was named Bernardinus (p. 61).

Provenance

• Leo S. Olschki (Florence): bookseller's bookplate inner front cover, inv. no. 47428, appears in catalog 54 (26 Sept. 1957), no. 5; old shelf number (16) on front cover.
   
• Acquired, 1957.
   

Subjects topical

• Chemistry--History
• Materia medica--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• Pharmacognosy
• Pharmacy--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover