Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Liber de vinis

Authors

• Arnaldus de Villanova (http://viaf.org/viaf/100189814)

Other related names

• Quaritch, Bernard, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 18
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 169

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript is an early 15th-century German translation of Villanova's "Liber de vinis," a medical treatise on the uses of wine.

Notes

• Slight worming
   
• Second front flyleaf is foliated as 1
   

Watermark

Unidentified

Extent

Ii+24+i; 187 x 135 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-6 (4)

Support

Paper

Binding

Half-mottled calf over boards

Layout

No evidence of ruling, written in long lines, twenty-six to twenty-nine lines; written area: 145 x 90 mm

Decoration

Red three-line initial (fol. 2r); red two-line initial (fol. 3r);red paragraphs throughout; red strokes through majuscules throughout; hyper-extended descenders in the final lines, some annotations by later readers

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Provenance

• Bernard Quaritch; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

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. 2056, no. 169.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), pp. 23-24, no. 18 (+Supplement).

Keywords

• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Science -- Medicine
• Gothic
• Paper
• Treatise
• Gloss

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 2r — Red three-line initial
• fol. 3r — Red two-line initial
• fol. 24v — Annotations in bottom margin
• fol. 25r — Annotations in bottom margin
• fol. 25v — Annotations added to blank page