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Title

Scientific miscellany

Authors

• Fernel, Jean, 1497-1558
• Lundie, John, d. 1652?

Other related names

• Duff, Robert William, d. 1834, former owner
• Duff, Jane Clerk, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1043
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3964200
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3964200

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1644-1646

Place

Aberdeen?

Summary

Treatises on medicine, history, geometry, and optics.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Incipit of first work: Corpus humanum potest dividi vel ratione finis vel ratione ... (f. 1r).
   
• A page of densely layered notes (f. 129v) includes phrases in English and the dates 1609 and 1636; notes on another page (f. 130v) refer to Scotland.
   

Watermark

Pitcher with a tiara topped with a quatrefoil and crescent.

Extent

130 leaves : 183 x 144 (163 x 114) mm. bound to 181 x 150 mm

Collation

Paper, 130; 1¹⁶( -2), 2-3¹⁶, 4⁸( -1), 5⁸, 6¹⁶, 7⁸, 8¹⁶, 9¹², 10⁸, 11¹²( -1), 12¹², 13¹²( -1), 14¹⁶( -1), 15-16⁸, 17⁸( -2), 18¹², 19¹⁶, 20¹²( -1), 21-22¹⁶, 23⁸( -1); [1-130]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment; several leaves loose or detached.

Decoration

Numerous geometrical diagrams (f. 70r to end).

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Former owners include: Robert William Duff (bookplate, inside upper cover); Jane Clerk Duff, 1858 (signature, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by E. Weil, 1952.
   

Subjects topical

• Anatomy--Early works to 1800
• Body fluids--Early works to 1800
• Diseases--Early works to 1800
• Geometry--Early works to 1800
• Optics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Brevio descriptio anatomica corporis humani, f. 1r
• fol. 19r — De quatuor humoribus, f. 19r
• fol. 25r — Perutiles quedam observationes ex libro i pathologice, f. 25r
• fol. 40r — De externis corporis affectibus, f. 40r
• fol. 60r — Historia universalis syntagma ... , f. 60r
• fol. 69r — De mensuris, f. 69r
• fol. 111r — Optica, f. 111r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 70r — Diagram, f. 70r
• fol. 70v — Diagram, f. 70v
• fol. 71r — Diagram, f. 71r
• fol. 71v — Diagram, f. 71v
• fol. 72r — Diagram, f. 72r
• fol. 72v — Diagram, f. 72v
• fol. 73r — Diagram, f. 73r
• fol. 73v — Diagram, f. 73v
• fol. 74r — Diagram, f. 74r
• fol. 75r — Diagram, f. 75r
• fol. 75v — Diagram, f. 75v
• fol. 76r — Diagram, f. 76r
• fol. 76v — Diagram, f. 76v
• fol. 77v — Diagram, f. 77v
• fol. 78v — Diagram, f. 78v
• fol. 79v — Diagram, f. 79v
• fol. 80r — Diagram, f. 80r
• fol. 80v — Diagram, f. 80v
• fol. 81r — Diagram, f. 81r
• fol. 81v — Diagram, f. 81v
• fol. 82v — Diagram, f. 82v
• fol. 83r — Diagram, f. 83r
• fol. 83v — Diagram, f. 83v
• fol. 84r — Diagram, f. 84r
• fol. 84v — Diagram, f. 84v
• fol. 85r — Diagram, f. 85r
• fol. 85v — Diagram, f. 85v
• fol. 86r — Diagram, f. 86r
• fol. 86v — Diagram, f. 86v
• fol. 87r — Diagram, f. 87r
• fol. 87v — Diagram, f. 87v
• fol. 88r — Diagram, f. 88r
• fol. 88v — Diagram, f. 88v
• fol. 89r — Diagram, f. 89r
• fol. 89v — Diagram, f. 89v
• fol. 90r — Diagram, f. 90r
• fol. 90v — Diagram, f. 90v
• fol. 91r — Diagram, f. 91r
• fol. 91v — Diagram, f. 91v
• fol. 92r — Diagram, f. 92r
• fol. 92v — Diagram, f. 92v
• fol. 93r — Diagram, f. 93r
• fol. 93v — Diagram, f. 93v
• fol. 94v — Diagram, f. 94v
• fol. 95r — Diagram, f. 95r
• fol. 95v — Diagram, f. 95v
• fol. 96r — Diagram, f. 96r
• fol. 96v — Diagram, f. 96v
• fol. 97v — Diagram, f. 97v
• fol. 98r — Diagram, f. 98r
• fol. 98v — Diagram, f. 98v
• fol. 99v — Diagram, f. 99v
• fol. 101r — Diagram, f. 101r
• fol. 102r — Diagram, f. 102r
• fol. 102v — Diagram, f. 102v
• fol. 103r — Diagram, f. 103r
• fol. 104r — Diagram, f. 104r
• fol. 104v — Diagram, f. 104v
• fol. 105v — Diagram, f. 105v
• fol. 106r — Diagram, f. 106r
• fol. 107r — Diagram, f. 107r
• fol. 112r — Diagram, f. 112r
• fol. 112v — Diagram, f. 112v
• fol. 113r — Diagram, f. 113r
• fol. 113v — Diagram, f. 113v
• fol. 114r — Diagram, f. 114r
• fol. 114v — Diagram, f. 114v
• fol. 115v — Diagram, f. 115v
• fol. 116r — Diagram, f. 116r
• fol. 116v — Diagram, f. 116v
• fol. 117r — Diagram, f. 117r
• fol. 128v — Diagram, f. 128v