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Title

Letter from Hippocrates to Caesar

Other related names

• Barrois, Joseph, ca. 1785-1855, former owner
• Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878, former owner

Call number

LJS 421
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9946263053503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/759869429
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4626305

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Old French

Origin

Date

between 1350 and 1375?

Place

France

Summary

Short collection of medical advice in prose, framed as sent by Hippocrates to Caesar, comprised of recipes followed by a guide to astronomical movements.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

24 leaves : 180 x 112 (126 x 83) mm. bound to 189 x 124 mm

Foliation

Parchment, 24 ; [1-24] ; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

19th-century brown calf, gilt framed, gilt lettering on spine.

Layout

Written in 23-24 long lines ; ruled in ink; some prickings visible.

Decoration

2-line initial in red with red filigraine infill and descender (f. 1r); 2-line initials and paragraph marks in red.

Script

Written in a Gothic book script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Joseph Barrois; sold by Barrois to Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (Ashburnham no. 239), 1849.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of the Ashburnham collection, 10 June 1901, lot 277; handled subsequently by J. & J. Leighton (London) and Messers. Berkelouw (Sydney).
   
• Sold by Les Enluminures (Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Jul. 2001.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Medieval
• Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Genres

• Codices
• Prescriptions
• Manuscripts, French--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• French
• France
• Science -- Medicine

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Owner note, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 1r