Description of University of Pennsylvania LJS 195: Medical miscellany University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 195: Medical miscellany are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 195 9958589513503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/818796149 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5858951 Medical compilation with a particular focus on the plague, but also including information on diseases of different parts of the body, urine, medicines, laxatives, water and wine, and the making of pigments for painting and inks for writing (f. 209r-215r). Middle High German, with some Latin Medical miscellany former owner Fugger, Ulricus, 1526-1584 former owner Stanitz, John D

paper

 326 leaves : 148 x 96 (119-124 x 75-80) mm. bound to 155 x 116 mm

Paper, 326; 1¹⁶(-1, front pastedown) 2¹²(-1) 3¹² 4¹⁶ 5²⁰ 6¹⁶ 7¹⁴ 8¹⁰ 9-13¹⁴ 14¹⁰ 15¹⁴ 16¹⁶ 17¹¹ 18-24¹² 25⁸(-1, back pastedown); [i-xiv, 1], 2-37, 36, 38-47, 45, 48, 47, 49-52, 44, 53-255, 260-280, [i], 281-305, [306-311], contemporary foliation in ink in 2 schemes, the older in red ink upper center recto, and later in black ink, upper right recto. References in this record are to the black foliation, unless only red foliation is present.

 Written in 21-25 long lines. Written in Gothic cursive script by multiple hands. Rubrication, underlining, and paragraph marks in red; initials touched with red. Manicule, f. 36r [=35r] Manicule, f. 152v [=155v] Manicule, f. 169r [=172r] Manicule, f. 177r [=180r] Manicule, f. 177v [=180v] Manicule, f. 243v [=246v] Manicule, f. 268v [=267v] Manicule, f. 271r [=270r] Manicule, f. 279v [=278v] Manicule, f. 280r [=279r] Manicule, f. 302v

Limp parchment, a leaf from a 15th-century liturgical manuscript; paper spine.

Written in Germany in the second half of the 15th century.

between 1450 and 1499 Germany Formerly owned by Ulricus Fugger, shelfmark XVIII K 9 (upper left, upper cover). Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 23 June 1992, lot 67. Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), Apr. 1993. Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 26. Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997. Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012. Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Dictionary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Torah Treatise Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Medicine--Early works to 1800 Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800 Medicine, Medieval Pigments--Early works to 1800 Plague--Early works to 1800 Codices Anthologies Manuscripts, German--15th century Manuscripts, Medieval Manuscripts, Renaissance Anthology 15th century Paper German Germany Science -- Medicine Paper