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Title

Medical miscellany

Authors

• Israeli, Isaac, approximately 832-approximately 932
• Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 809?-873
• Philaretus
• Gilles, de Corbeil, fl. 1200
• Israeli, Isaac, ca. 832-ca. 932
• Israeli, Isaac, ca. 832-ca. 932
• Israeli, Isaac, ca. 832-ca. 932
• Israeli, Isaac, ca. 832-ca. 932

Other related names

• Constantine, the African, ca. 1020-1087, translator
• Dysart, Lionel Tollemache, Earl of, 1708-1770, former owner
• Tollemache, Bentley Lyonel John Tollemache, Baron, 1883-1955, former owner
• Robinson, Philip, former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 24
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9952666523503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/764468931
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5266652

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1225 and 1275

Place

Paris

Summary

Collection of standard 13th-century medical texts with inhabited initials showing medical scenes. 5 works of Isaac Israeli concerning diet, urine, fevers, and the elements, which were translated into Latin in the 11th century by Constantine the African, a Benedictine monk, comprise most of the manuscript. These are preceded by a brief introduction to Galen and 2 short works on the pulse. Most of the illuminations depict Dominican monks teaching and tending to patients.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

149 leaves : 278 x 196 (188 x 125-127) mm. bound to 293 x 211 mm

Collation

Parchment, ii (18th-century paper) + 149 + ii (18th-century paper); 1¹⁴(-1) 2² 3¹⁰ 4-7¹² 8¹²(-1) 9¹²(-2) 10-13¹² 14¹⁰(-3); gatherings 3, 6, and 12 have horizontal catchwords (f. 25v, 61v, 130v); gatherings 3, 4, and 8 have letters on the rectos in the first half of each gathering (starting f. 16r, 26r, 75r); gathering 4 is signed II (f. 37v).

Support

Parchment

Binding

Early 18th-century mottled calf, gilt with Dysart arms on covers and spine label Theorica practica.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 44-47 lines; frame-ruled in faint ink with double vertical bounding lines.

Decoration

1 8-line miniature of a Dominican doctor teaching clerics (f. 1r); 11 inhabited initials (Dominican doctor taking a pulse, f. 6r; Dominican doctor at a table, f. 7v; laymen at a feast, f. 16r; Dominican doctor, servant, and patient, f. 65r; Dominican doctor teaching laymen, f. 91r; Dominican doctor reading, f. 92v; man covering patient with cloak, f. 94v; Dominican doctor and layman, f. 98r; man bringing poultice to patient, f. 103v; Dominican doctor with urine flask and patient, f. 121v; Dominican doctor reading, f. 137r); 4 faint guide sketches for initials in lower margin (f. 65r, 94v, 103v, 121v); 3 illuminated initials (7-line, f. 51v, 52r; 11-line, f. 70r); 2- and 3-line initials alternating between red flourished with turquoise and blue flourished with red throughout; alternating red and blue paragraph marks throughout; unusual manicules in the form of a tongue extended from a hooded head throughout. The miniatures are attributed to the Johannes Grusch atelier of Paris.

Script

Written in Gothic script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Lionel Tollemache, Earl of Dysart (Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, arms on covers; Dysart armorial stamp, f. 15v) in the 18th century and by his descendants through Bentley Lyonel John Tollemache (third Baron Tollemache).
   
• Sold privately to the Robinson Brothers after the death of Baron Tollemache in 1955 and held in the private library of Philip Robinson.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 6 Dec. 1993, lot 53.
   
• Appears in Jörn Günther Antiquariat's Mittelalterliche Handschriften und Miniaturen (1995), no. 4.
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd., cat. 16 (1995), no. 46, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Dominicans--In art
• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Medieval
• Fever--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Illuminations
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• Illumination
• Treatise
• Science -- Medicine
• Miscellany
• Christian
• France
• French

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Isagoge ad artem parvam Galeni, f. 1r
• fol. 6r — Liber Philareti de pulsu, f. 6r
• fol. 7v — Liber de pulsu, f. 7v
• fol. 16r — Diete universales, f. 16r
• fol. 51v — Diete particulares, f. 51v
• fol. 85r — Liber urinarum, f. 85r
• fol. 91r — Febres, f. 91r
• fol. 137r — Liber elementorum, f. 137r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated miniature, Dominican doctor teaching clerics, f. 1r
• fol. 6r — Inhabited initial, Initial I, Dominican doctor taking a pulse, f. 6r
• fol. 7v — Inhabited initial, Initial Q, Dominican doctor at a table, f. 7v
• fol. 15v — Coat of arms, f. 15v
• fol. 16r — Inhabited initial, Initial Q, Laymen at a feast, f. 16r
• fol. 38r — Manicule, f. 38r
• fol. 43r — Manicule, f. 43r
• fol. 50v — Manicule, f. 50v
• fol. 51v — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 51v
• fol. 52r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 52r
• fol. 52r — Manicule, f. 52r
• fol. 55v — Manicule, f. 55v
• fol. 57v — Manicule, f. 57v
• fol. 58r — Manicule, f. 58r
• fol. 60v — Manicule, f. 60v
• fol. 63r — Manicule, f. 63r
• fol. 63v — Manicule, f. 63v
• fol. 65r — Inhabited initial, Initial Q, Dominican doctor, servant, and patient, f. 65r
• fol. 65v — Manicule, f. 65v
• fol. 66v — Manicule, f. 66v
• fol. 70r — Illuminated initial, Initial I, f. 70r
• fol. 70r — Manicule, f. 70r
• fol. 72v — Manicule, f. 72v
• fol. 74r — Manicule, f. 74r
• fol. 77v — Manicule, f. 77v
• fol. 78v — Manicule, f. 78v
• fol. 80v — Manicule, f. 80v
• fol. 83v — Manicule, f. 83v
• fol. 84v — Manicule, f. 84v
• fol. 86r — Manicule, f. 86r
• fol. 87v — Manicule, f. 87v
• fol. 88r — Manicule, f. 88r
• fol. 88v — Manicule, f. 88v
• fol. 89r — Manicule, f. 89r
• fol. 91r — Inhabited initial, Initial Q, Dominican doctor teaching laymen, f. 91r
• fol. 92v — Inhabited initial, Initial F, Dominican doctor reading, f. 92v
• fol. 92v — Manicule, f. 92v
• fol. 93r — Manicule, f. 93r
• fol. 94r — Manicule, f. 94r
• fol. 94v — Inhabited initial, Initial E, man covering patient with cloak, f. 94v
• fol. 95v — Manicule, f. 95v
• fol. 98r — Inhabited initial, Initial P, Dominican doctor and layman, f. 98r
• fol. 100r — Manicule, f. 100r
• fol. 103v — Inhabited initial, Initial C, man bringing poultice to patient, f. 103v
• fol. 106v — Manicule, f. 106v
• fol. 108r — Manicule, f. 108r
• fol. 109r — Manicule, f. 109r
• fol. 110r — Manicule, f. 110r
• fol. 111v — Manicule, f. 111v
• fol. 112r — Manicule, f. 112r
• fol. 112v — Manicule, f. 112v
• fol. 113r — Manicule, f. 113r
• fol. 113v — Manicule, f. 113v
• fol. 114v — Manicule, f. 114v
• fol. 115v — Manicule, f. 115v
• fol. 116v — Manicule, f. 116v
• fol. 118v — Manicule, f. 118v
• fol. 119v — Manicule, f. 119v
• fol. 121v — Inhabited initial, Initial Q, Dominican doctor with urine flask and patient, f. 121v
• fol. 122r — Manicule, f. 122r
• fol. 137r — Inhabited initial, Initial P, Dominican doctor reading, f. 137r
• fol. 137r — Manicule, f. 137r
• fol. 137v — Manicule, f. 137v
• fol. 138v — Drawing, Face, f. 138v
• fol. 139r — Manicule, f. 139r
• fol. 139v — Manicule, f. 139v
• fol. 140r — Manicule, f. 140r
• fol. 140r — Drawing, Face, f. 140r
• fol. 140v — Manicule, f. 140v
• fol. 142r — Manicule, f. 142r
• fol. 145r — Manicule, f. 145r
• fol. 145v — Manicule, f. 145v
• fol. 146r — Manicule, f. 146r
• fol. 147r — Manicule, f. 147r
• fol. 147v — Manicule, f. 147v