Collection ID: 0027 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Regimen sanitatis ad regem Aragonum

Authors

• Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311 (http://viaf.org/viaf/100189814)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

10a 210
(Philadelphia, United States, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 5
• Hirsch: 27

Publisher

Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Spain or southern France

Summary

This manuscript is a fourteenth-century or very early fifteenth-century copy of Arnaldus de Villanova's guide to health for James II, King of Aragon from 1291 to 1327, on topics such as bathing, eating, drinking, and sleeping. This guide, referred to in the manuscript both as Liber de conservatione sanitatis and Regimen generale (fols. 1r-26r), is followed by the much briefer Regimen speciale (fols. 26r-28v), which, unlike the main text, mostly consists of recipes. The text is written in two columns of a rounded Gothic script with the start of chapters marked by alternating red and blue initials.

Notes

• Paper flyleaves
   
• Front and back flyleaves foliated as fol. i and fol. 29
   

Extent

I+28+i; 185 × 125 mm bound to 190 x 135 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, [i, 1–29], upper center or right recto

Collation

1-3 (8), 4 (4)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal, lower right last verso, framed by simple rectangles of black and red ink (fols. 8v, 16v, 24v)

Binding

Twentieth-century marbled grey paper over pasteboards, the spine formerly with a titlepiece, now missing

Layout

Two columns of twenty-seven lines; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines; written area: 135 × 90mm

Decoration

One large puzzle initial in red and blue, with penwork flourishing in red and purple and a vertical extension of half-fleurs-de-lis alternately blue or red (fol. 1r); chapters with two-line initials alternately red with purple penwork flourishing, or blue with red penwork; rubrics in red; capitals stroked in red

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Purchased by the College of Physicians in 1920 (College of Physicians bookplate, inside back cover)
   

Related resources

• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia by Peer Kidd (http://www.academia.edu/19606281/A_Descriptive_Catalogue_of_the_Medieval_Manuscripts_in_the_Library_of_the_College_of_Physicians_Philadelphia)
• Hirsch, Rudolf, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Archives of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1983), no. 27.

Keywords

• Treatise
• 14th century
• 15th century
• France
• Spain
• Science -- Medicine
• Puzzle initial

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Liber de conservatione sanitatis
• fol. 26r — Regimen speciale

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Puzzle initial P