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Title

De re medicina

Authors

• Platearius, Matthaeus, -1161

Other related names

• Chrewczer, Pangracius, former owner
• Chrewczer, Cristoferus, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner
• Caesareum Societatis Jesu Collegium Viennense, former owner

Call number

LJS 437
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958065673503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/805159333
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5806567

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1400

Place

Germany or Austria

Summary

Medical compendium of or treatise on simples (medicines made from one component, mostly botanical), with notes on their preparation and properties, grouped by first letter, but not arranged alphabetically within each letter group. A list of the herbs starting with a given letter appears at the beginning of each letter section. Occasional marginal notes and corrections, often slightly trimmed.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from spine.
   

Extent

74 leaves : 243 x 178 (195 x 128) mm. bound to 249 x 193 mm

Collation

Parchment, i (18th-century paper) + 74 + i (18th-century paper); 1-3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5-6¹⁰ 7⁸ 8¹⁰(-2); gatherings 3-7 signed III-VII, signatures of gatherings 1-2 cropped, lower center of last verso. Last gathering misbound, so leaves appear in order 1, 4, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 7, 10, with only stubs remaining from leaves 8 and 9.

Support

Parchment

Binding

18th-century calf, gilt spine; paste paper doublures.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 32-35 lines; frame-ruled in ink. Prickings visible.

Decoration

1 5-line and 1 6-line puzzle initial in red and blue with penwork infill and extensions in red and turquoise (f. 1r, 2r); 17 2-, 3-, and 6-line initials in blue with red flourishing or red with turquoise flourishing (f. 14r, 17r, 28r, 30v, 34v, 36v, 40r (6-line), 41v, 45v, 53r, 54v, 57r (6-line), 61r, 64v, 68v, 71v, 72r); many 1-, 2-, and 3-line initials in either red or blue; red and blue paragraph marks; rubrication in red, once in blue (f. 46v). Guide initials usually visible, text for rubrics often visible in margins, frequently trimmed.

Script

Written in Gothic textura script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Pangracius Chrewczer and his son Cristoferus Chrewczer (written Chrewczuar in inscription), both professors of medicine (late 14th- or 15th-century inscription, f. 1r; exact match of the inscription in another late 14th/early 15th-century medical manuscript at the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Acc. Ms. 1969.4)
   
• Formerly owned by the Caesareum Societatis Jesu Collegium Viennense (Jesuit college in Vienna), 1773.
   
• Sold at auction as part of the Schönborn-Buchheim library at Reiss & Auvermann (Königstein), 12 Oct. 1993, lot 437.
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2002.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Materia medica, Vegetable--Early works to 1800
• Medicinal plants--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Medieval

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 2r
• fol. 14r — Decorated initial, Initial B, f. 14r
• fol. 17r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 17r
• fol. 28r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 28r
• fol. 30v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 30v
• fol. 34v — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 34v
• fol. 36v — Decorated initial, Initial G, f. 36v
• fol. 40r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 40r
• fol. 41v — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 41v
• fol. 45v — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 45v
• fol. 53r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 53r
• fol. 54v — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 54v
• fol. 57r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 57r
• fol. 61r — Decorated initial, Initial R, f. 61r
• fol. 64v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 64v
• fol. 68v — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 68v
• fol. 71v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 71v
• fol. 72r — Decorated initial, Initial Z, f. 72r