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Title

Lilium medicinae

Authors

• Bernard de Gordon (http://viaf.org/viaf/226497544)

Other related names

• Cokkes, John, former owner
• Latten, W., former owner
• Sir William Osler, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79081429.html)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

10a 249
(Philadelphia, United States, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 7
• Hirsch: 66
• Tanis: 75

Publisher

Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Oxford, England

Notes

• Manuscript begins with two added quires originally of 14 leaves each, followed by 21 quires originally of 12 leaves each
   

Extent

Ii+259+i; 173 x 110 mm bound to 179 x 112 mm

Foliation

The added prefatory leaves are foliated in modern pencil: "a" (modern(?) flyleaf), i–xxiv; the main text is foliated in medieval ink arabic numerals, presumably by the same person that added the alphabetical index: 2–256, accidentally omitting "88", and missing the following due to the loss of leaves: 1, 30–31, 122, 135, 148, 172–174, 201, 203–206, 218–219, 239, 241, and 243; followed by one old and one modern(?) flyleaf, foliated 257–258 in pencil; many of the pages foliated in medieval ink arabic numerals also have supplementary modern pencil foliation, we follow the modern pencil foliation

Collation

1 (14, -1 -2 -3 -4 -5), 2 (14), 3 (12, -1), 4 (12), 5 (12, -6 -7), 6-11 (12), 12 (12, -12), 13 (12), 14 (12, -1), 15 (12, -2), 16 (12), 17 (12, -2 -3 -4), 18 (12), 19 (12, -7 -9 -10 -11 -12), 20 (12, -12), 21 (12, -1), 22 (12, -9 -11), 23 (14, -1)

Signatures

'ad hoc' leaf signatures throughout, sometimes at the fore-edge or in the upper margin

Support

Parchment

Binding

Late 15th- or early 16th-century Oxford blind-stamped binding. Tanis reports a "crescent stamp", which he compared to Weale, Bookbindings (1894), p.104 no.48 (not illustrated), but I see no such stamp: the front board (very worn) has what appears to be a stag's head or skull within a rectangle c.11×7mm, within an oval frame c.23×16mm, and the back board has two columns of six stamps of a double-headed eagle with splayed wings, within a square c.17×17mm, surrounded by a border of rampant lions, within a square c.14×14mm; the edges of the leaves are inscribed/decorated: Tanis saw the initials "B G", but it is more likely that the edges are decorated with foliate scrolls, especially as the fore-edge has three letters/scrolls; repaired and re-backed by Harold Tribolet, of Chicago, between 1964 and 1975 (see Holloway, p.68); stored with the manuscript is an envelope marked "Remnants of back board" containing four pieces of worm-eaten wood with holes and channels for the sewing

Layout

Frame-ruled in lead in one column of thirty-four lines per page; prickings extant for first and last horizontals and the verticals; written area: 123 x 75 mm; the added prefatory quires frame-ruled in lead, written area: 118 x 75mm

Decoration

Rubrics in red, running headers (e.g. "L"(iber) on a verso and "IIII" on a recto) in alternating red and blue characters; pen-flourished initials in red and blue throughout; one-line initials in red or blue throughout; few illuminated initials and partial borders (fols. 55v, 101r)

Script

Gothic - - textualis in pale brown ink, corrections often in darker ink

Provenance

• Written in England, doubtless Oxford, and completed (just as the Black Death was arriving in England) on the day after the feast of Corpus Christi (i.e. Friday, June 20), 1348: "Fuit scriptus iste liber Anno incarnacionis domini M o .CCC o .xl o .viii o . Die veneris proxima post festum corporis Christi", and in red: "Completo libro sit laus et gloria Christo. / Explicit lilium medicine." (fol.256v); John Cokkes (d.1475), Oxford physician: inscribed: "Istu(m) libru(m) emi a doctore Kokk(es) p(ro) x s et adhuc dedit m(ihi) i(n) p(re)cio / xl d pro div(er)s(is) laboribus in medici(nis) et precium xiij s iiij d .", 15th century (fol. 2r, top margin), doubtless referring to the John Cokkes (Cokkys / Kokkes, etc.), who apparently wrote Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. e Mus. 155 (and signed it in several places, including, at p.507, "correctus et scriptus per Johannem Cokkes manibus suis propriis Oxon."), owned Bodleian, MS. Ashmole 1432, and wrote or composed at least part of Cambridge, King's College, MS. 16 (fol.8r includes "Quia ego Iohannes Cokkis …"); see A.B. Emden, Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500, I (Oxford, 1957), p. 457, which refers to a document in which Master John Cokkes, physician, is accused of withholding evidence relating to a patient's death; A thoroughly-effaced seven-line inscription in 16th-century italic script in which the first appears to begin "Audivi …" and the last line "Ex …" (fol.ir); below this, perhaps written by the same hand, is "Gallicina' hunc Bern: de Gordone appellatur"; inscribed, perhaps by the same person in less formal script, with a note beginning "vide fol.38: De antidoto Lepræ, a serpentibus …" including "Gallicinia vipeas appellat" (fol.i verso); Inscribed "W. Latten" (fol.1r), 17th(?)century, perhaps one of the three Oxford men called William Latten/Latton recorded by Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714 (Oxford, 1891), pp.884–85; the name was read as "W. Patten" by de Ricci and Tanis (a name that does not appear in Foster), before the name is a price(?), apparently "0.2.6", perhaps later altered to "1.12.6", and after it a number or date, apparently "1555", but apparently not in the same ink as the name; Inscribed with a 17th(?)century shelfmark(?) ".E. / .9."; Inscribed with 17th/18th(?)century initials "AR" in monogram (fol.137r, lower margin); Sir William Osler (1849–1919), Canadian physician, of Montreal and Oxford (on whom see the ODNB and Harvey Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler (2 vols, Oxford, 1925, reprinted New York, 1993), acquired probably in Oxford in 1915 (see ibid., II, p.506, quoting a letter written on 10 Dec. 1915: "I am picking up a few treasures—nice XIII Cent. MS of Platearius—one of the Practica of Bernard de Gordonio."), with his bookplate printed in capitals: "From / the library / of / Sir William Osler, Bart. / Oxford" (front pastedown), inscribed "7523"; inscribed in pencil with the same number (fol.i verso); shortly before his death he made lists of books which should be given to particular institutions, including to the "College of Physicians Phila –that Mon[t]pellier MS. Textbook 1373 [sic]. W.O." (see Cushing, op. cit., II, p.683; cf. Bibliotheca Osleriana, 1929, p.xxxi); bequeathed in accordance with his wishes to: The College of Physicians: the manuscript was not actually transferred to the College until December 1928 (almost a decade after Osler's death), presumably when the Osleriana catalogue had finally been sent to the press (Elizabeth M. Holloway, "The Oslers and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Some Further Footnotes to a TwiceTold Tale", Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 4th series, 43, no. 2 (October, 1975), pp.64–8, at 67–8); the Library bookplate (back pastedown) is dated "Dec 24 1928" and has an accession number(?) "127743" and valuation(?) "200. 00 "
   

Related resources

• 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)
• Tanis, James R. (ed.), Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, 2001), pp.218–9, no. 75
• Hirsch, Rudolf A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Archives of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1983), no. 66.

Keywords

• 14th century
• Miscellany
• English
• Gothic
• Gloss
• Illumination
• Science -- Medicine

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Lilium medicinae

Decorations

• fol. 12v — Marginalia
• fol. 55v — Illuminated border
• fol. 101r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 101r — Illuminated border
• fol. 132r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 132r — Illuminated border
• fol. 162v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 162v — Illuminated border
• fol. 202r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 202r — Illuminated border
• fol. 230v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 230v — Illuminated border