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

Title

De crisibus libri III

Authors

• Galen (http://viaf.org/viaf/44299175)

Other related names

• Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187, translator (http://viaf.org/viaf/84814786)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

10a 233
(Philadelphia, United States, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Alternate identifiers

• Hirsch: 323

Publisher

Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This manuscript is a thirteenth-century copy of Gherardo da Cremona's twelfth-century translation of a brief Galenic treatise on prognosis and change in the course of a disease. The text is known by the titles De crisibus, De crisis, and Peri criseos. The manuscript is divided into three parts and is mostly undecorated, with a puzzle initial at the beginning of the first book and simpler initials at the beginning of the second and third books. A later reader added running headings of the book division at the top of each folio.

Notes

• Modern paper flyleaves, the first and last with brown marbling, conjoint with the pastedowns
   
• Back flyleaves foliated 32-33
   

Extent

Ii+31+ii; 240 × 160 mm bound to 248 x 170 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, [i-ii, 1–33], upper right recto

Collation

1-3 (8), 4 (7, +1)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal, lower right last verso, in quires 2 and 3 (fols. 16v, 24v)

Binding

Modern half leather with marbled paper over pasteboards; spine lettered in gilt capitals Galenus / De / Crisi // Sec. XIII

Layout

Two columns of forty-two lines, starting above top line; frame-ruled in faint ink (fols. 1v-8r) or lead (9v-31r); prickings occasionally survive in the upper and lower margins; written area 168–172 × 104–107 mm

Decoration

One puzzle initial approximately seven lines high in red and blue filled with fine penwork in blue in leafy patterns and with two small quadrupeds, the exterior with red penwork with green washes, at the beginning of the first book (fol. 1r); the second and third books begin with simpler initials in red flourished with blue, or vice versa (fols. 13v, 22v)

Script

Gothic--textualis; single-compartment a

Provenance

• Provenance details by Peter Kidd: 1. Written and decorated in France in the 13th century; the text is written 'above top line', suggesting the first half of the century, but the penflourishing of the first initial could be of the second half; handwritten description in purple ink on a slip of paper stuck to the first flyleaf: "... The MS is carefully written in the XIII th century probably in Italy … The text is the Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis and generally agrees with the printed edition in Primi voluminis Galeni quinta impressio. Venetiis (Giunta) 1522 f.239 v –258", annotated in pencil "(Dr. Bertalot's description of the MS)"; another note on printed notepaper of "Dr. David Riesman / 1520 Spruce Street / Philadelphia", signed "D.R." and dated [?]/29/40, addressed to "Dear M c Daniel" (i.e. W.B. McDaniel, Librarian from 1933 to 1953), begins "Dr. Rosenbach thinks $150 a reasonable price for the Galen MS." (fol.ir), i.e. Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876–1952), renowned Philadelphia book dealer; Dean Putnam Lockwood (1883–1965), professor of Latin at Haverford College (see below); College of Physicians: Library bookplate with stamped accession date "JUL 9, 1941" and typed notes "Library General Account." and "$ 125.00" (front pastedown); inscribed in pencil "Purchased through Mr. Dean P. Lockwood" (fol.iir, inner margin)
   

Related resources

• Kristeller, Paul Oskar, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: a Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries. Volume 5 (Alia Itinera III and Italy III): Sweden to Yugoslavia, Utopia [and] Supplement to Italy (A-F) (London: The Warburg Institute; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990), p. 356. (https://italicum.itergateway.org/search/record/1761)
• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia by Peter 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. 323

Keywords

• Treatise
• 13th century
• Puzzle initial
• Science -- Medicine
• France

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Primus liber]
• fol. 13v — [Secundus liber]
• fol. 22v — Tertius liber

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Puzzle initial E
• fol. 13v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 22v — Decorated initial I