Description of University of Pennsylvania LJS 236: Thesaurus pauperum ... etc. University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 236: Thesaurus pauperum ... etc. 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 for manuscript from explicit for predominant work (f. 101r). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 236 9958895573503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/824738750 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5889557 Medical miscellany with almost the first half of the volume devoted to a copy of Thesaurus pauperum, a compilation of remedies for a variety of diseases frequently attributed to Petrus Hispanus, later Pope John XXI. The remainder includes a work by Arnaldus de Villanova, a partial copy of a work by Johannes de Rupescissa, a work attributed to Ramon Llull, and several other unattributed collections of remedies. Lists of multiple names, perhaps of teachers or students, many associated with locations in northern Italy, added by a few hands (f. 165r-167r, 265r-266r). Latin, with one section (f. 267r-272r) and some recipes, notes, and names in Italian Thesaurus pauperum ... etc. John XXI, Pope, -1277 Johannes, de Rupescissa, approximately 1300-approximately 1365 Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311 attributed name Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316 [1r] Thesaurus pauperum, f. 1r 101r [=79r] Medicina mirabilis et secreta, f. 101r 149r [=117r] Liber computi de festis anni, f. 149r 163v [=127v] Poems, pen trials, names of teachers and others, f. 163v 173r [=132r] Liber de consideratione 5 essentiae omnium rerum, f. 173r 113v [=172v] Ars operativa, f. [213v] 223v [=182v] Medical recipes, f. 223v 233v [=192v] Medical recipes, f. 233v 236r [=195r] Tractatus utilissimus de proprietatibus aque vite, f. 236r 247r [=206r] Medical recipes in Latin and Italian, f. 247r 265r [=220r] Notes, names of men and women, f. 265r 267r [=222r] Pharmacological treatise in Italian, f. 267r 272r [=227r] Medical recipes in Latin and Italian, f. 272r

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 233 leaves : 147 x 104 (92-95 x 66-69) mm. bound to 147 x 118 mm

Paper, 233 + i (11th-century parchment); 1¹⁰(-2) 2-11¹⁰ 12¹⁰(-2) 13¹⁰(-8) 14¹⁰(-4) 15¹²(-5) 16-21¹⁰ 22¹² 23¹²(-3) 24¹⁰(-1) 25¹²; early foliation in ink, [1], 2-8, 11-69, 80-89, 100-138, 149-151, 154-157, 160-167, 173-212, 113, 214-247, 251-263, 265-278 (f. 9-10, 139-148, 152-153, 158-159, 168-172 torn out), upper right recto. Catchwords on the last verso of gatherings 2-11, 13-14, 16-23 (f. 20v, 30v, 40v, 50v, 60v, 80v, 100v, 110v, 120v, 130v, 150v, 160v, 182v, 192v, 202v, 212v, 222v, 232v, 244v, 256v); at least one gathering may be missing after a dangling catchword on gathering 21 (f. 232v). References in this record are to foliation as it appears in the manuscript.

 Written in 31-35 long lines; some pages frame-ruled in lead. Written in Gothic cursive script by at least 3 hands. Diagram of chemical apparatus in text (f. 260r); rough drawings in ink of faces (f. 167v); spaces left for 2-line and 3-line initials, with guide letters Drawing, f. 4r Drawings, f. 167v Diagram, f. 260r

Original (15th-century) parchment with 5 metal bosses on each cover and remnants of a clasp; title Thesaurus pauperum partially visible on the upper cover in ink; attachment of covers to spine and binding to manuscript very fragile. Back flyleaf and pastedown are formed from a fragment from a mid-11th-century German homiliary; the text is from Pope Leo I's Sermon 42, on Quadragesima.

Written in northern Italy in the second half of the 15th century.

ca. 1450-1499 Italy Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 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 Codices Diagrams Drawings Prescriptions Recipes Manuscripts, Latin--15th century Manuscripts, Italian--15th century Manuscripts, Renaissance 15th century Italy Italian Diagrams Drawing Science -- Medicine Paper