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Title

Therapeuticen specialis seu De morbis in particulari.

Call number

Ms. Codex 2190
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979387708903681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1438775099

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

not before 1675

Summary

Medical reference work written in the late 17th century, with citations of Galen and Avicenna (for example, f. 187v) but also 16th- and 17th-century physicians such as Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg, Wilhelm Fabry, Bartholinus (probably Caspar Bartholin the Elder), and Pierre Borel (f. 3r-3v), with the work of Friedrich Hoffmann being among the latest cited (f. 9v). The manuscript is divided into three books concerning the diseases of the upper (regio animalis, f. 1r-75r), middle (regio vitalis, f. 75r-120v), and lower (regio naturalis, f. 120v-207r) regions of the body. The diseases of the upper region include headache, vertigo, epilepsy, melancholy, mania, and catarrh; of the middle region, pneumonia, phthisis, asthma, and cough; and of the lower region, stomachache, heart pain, vomiting, lacking or excess appetite, cholera, dysentery, and colic. Each disease is described in sections under the headings Causae, Differentiae, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Curatio. Additional remedies are written by multiple hands on the pastedowns and endleaves; the endleaves are reinforced at the gutter with tape.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   
• 1. f.1r-75r: Liber I, De morbis regionis animalis -- 2. f.75r-120v: Liber II, De morbis regionis vitalis -- 3. f.120v-207r: Liber III, De morbis regionis naturalis.
   
• This manuscript matches Ms. Codex 2191 (Tractatus de morbis feminarum et infantium), University of Pennsylvania, in hand, page layout, and binding, but is a slightly different size..
   

Extent

208 leaves : 214 x 152 (155 x 90) mm bound to 220 x 160 mm +

Collation

Paper, 208 + i; 1-2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4-10⁸ 11⁴ 12⁸ 13⁴ 14-18⁸ 19¹⁴ 20-22⁸ 23¹⁰ 24-25⁸ 26⁶; [i, 1-207], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Early limp vellum, spine title Practica de morbis in ink.

Layout

Written in 24-30 long lines; quarto format.

Decoration

Penwork decoration on initial letters in manuscript title (f. 1r), penwork decoration also with grotesque faces on initial letters for internal book division titles (f. 75r, 120v).

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand, with book and chapter headings in square capitals.

Provenance

• Sold by Adam Weinberger (New York), 2024.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Early works to 1800

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Treatise
• 17th century
• Paper
• Science -- Medicine

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Liber Primus, De morbis regionis animalis
• fol. 75r — Liber II, De morbis regionis vitalis
• fol. 120v — De morbis regionis naturalis

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial T
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial L
• fol. 75r — Decorated initial L, with grotesque face
• fol. 120v — Decorated initial L, with grotesque face