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Title

Arcana quaedam Alberti cognomenti Magni de secretis mulierum.

Other related names

• Lenkiewicz, R. O. 1941-2002, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1790
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969823123503681

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin and German

Origin

Date

circa 1800

Place

Netherlands?

Summary

Anthology of excerpts from philosophical and medical works on human reproduction. Beginning with De secretis mulierum, a treatise known for its negative representation of women, often erroneously attributed to Albertus Magnus, the compiler copies and abridges selections from both the text and commentary, likely from a printed edition, sometimes diverging from the order of the text. Other Latin and German excerpts are interspersed with the selections attributed to Albertus Magnus, copied from sources ranging from classical authors such as Democritus and Pliny the Younger to 16th-century scientific authors such as Levinus Lemnius, Girolamo Cardano, and Johann Wittch.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r); the word aliorumque was added to the title page later.
   

Watermark

A complex watermark is barely visible.

Extent

156 leaves : 200 x 175 (120-140 x 125) mm bound to 205 x 185 mm

Collation

Paper, i + 156 + i; 1-13¹²; [1-156], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Gatherings 2-13 signed with numbers, lower left first recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern calf, older gilt spine label reading Secretis mulierum / Mss. / Alberti Magni.

Layout

Written in 9-14 long lines; vertical bounding lines in lead; quarto format.

Script

Written in a semicursive script, possibly by one hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Robert Lenkiewicz, Appleby Castle, Westmorland.
   
• Offered at auction at Sotheby's (London), in the sale of the collection of Robert Lenkiewicz, 20 November 2003, part of lot 217.
   
• Sold at auction at Lyon & Turnbull (Edinburgh), 4 May 2016, lot 88.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine, Medieval
• Gynecology--Early works to 1800
• Human reproduction--Early works to 1800
• Women--Health and hygiene--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Anthologies
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, German--19th century
• Manuscripts, European

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