Collection ID: 0007 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Varii artis veterinariae scriptores graeci

Authors

• Ruel, Jean, 1474-1537 (https://viaf.org/viaf/88059109)

Other related names

• Ruel, Jean, 1474-1537, translator (https://viaf.org/viaf/88059109)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lehigh Codex 14
(Bethlehem, United States, Lehigh University, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• Hirsh: MS Hirsh 14
• deRicci: 9
• Accession: 23456

Publisher

Special Collections

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This manuscript is a calligraphic copy of Veterinariae medicinae libri ii by Jean Ruel, physician of Francis I. Ruel translated Greek veterinary texts by authors such as Apsyrtus, Hierocles, Pelagonius, Theomnest, Eumelus, Anatolius, and Hippocrates into Latin and compiled them into a single work. The manuscript was likely copied from the edition printed in 1530, even though it is divided into three books rather than two as in the printed edition. It is quite a deluxe production, written in humanistic cursive script on parchment with one or more initials with botanical decorations on nearly every page. An inscription in Dutch by Joannes Helewaert, possibly the scribe, is written inside the back cover.

Notes

• Pagination 224-227 repeats
   

Extent

158; 335 x 225 mm bound to 355 x 243 mm

Foliation

Pagination in ink, upper outer corners, 1-227, 224-274

Collation

1 (7, +1), 2-18 (8), 19 (4, +2 +3), 20 (4), 21 (7, +1)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Original binding, blind-stamped calf over wooden boards

Layout

One column of forty-one lines; frame-ruled in red ink with double bounding lines; blank leaves before and after text ruled for two columns; written area: 235 x 115 mm

Decoration

Illuminated initials, from two to five lines, the larger ones mostly on gold wash ground, with botanical illustrations, and the smaller ones in gold on colored grounds; large twelve- or thirteen-line initials at the three book divisions (pages 1, 155, 240); chapter titles and author names in red ink

Script

Humanistic Cursive

Scribe: Joannes Helewaert

Provenance

• Acquired from Bailieu (Paris), 9 September 1881 (deRicci)
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 1990, no. 9.
• Hirsh, John C., Western Manuscripts of the Twelfth through the Sixteenth Centuries in Lehigh University Libraries: A Guide to the Exhibition (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Rare Book Room, Linderman Library, Lehigh University, 1970), pp. 26-27, no. 14.

Keywords

• Treatise
• 16th century
• French
• Humanistic
• Illumination
• France
• Science -- Medicine

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — [Liber primus]
• 155 — Veterinariae medicinae liber secundus
• 240 — Artis veterinariae liber iii

Decorations

• 1 — Large decorated initial C
• 155 — Large decorated initial H
• 240 — Large decorated initial C