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Title

Tractatus de morbis feminarum et infantium.

Call number

Ms. Codex 2191
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979417423903681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1438774184

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1675 and 1699

Place

Italy?

Summary

Two 17th-century medical treatises. The first is divided into two books, on diseases of women (hysteria and problems of menstruation, pregnancy, birth, and nursing) and diseases of children. The second treatise is on venereal disease, specifically syphilis (morbus gallicus). The compiler cites the 16th-century German physician Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg and the 17th-century Dutch physician Franciscus Silvius. Each disease is described in sections under the headings Causae, Differentiae, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Curatio. Additional remedies for venereal disease are written on the lower pastedown.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   
• 1. f.1r-48r: De morbis feminarum -- 2. f.48v-62v: De morbis puerorum -- 3. f.63r-81v: Tractatus de lue venerea.
   
• This manuscript matches Ms. Codex 2190 (Therapeuticen specialis), University of Pennsylvania, in hand, page layout, and binding, but is a slightly different size.
   

Extent

81 leaves : 210 x 155 (155 x 85) mm bound to 215 x 1600 mm +

Collation

Paper, 81; 1⁸⁻¹(-1) 2⁶ 3-6⁸ 7⁴ 8⁸ 9⁴ 10⁸ 11⁸⁻¹(-3) 12⁶⁻¹(-6); [1-81], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Early limp vellum, spine title De morbis feminarum et infantium in ink.

Layout

Written in 26 long lines; quarto format.

Decoration

Penwork decoration on initial letters in manuscript title (f. 1r) and titles for internal book divisions (f. 48v, 63r).

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
• Women--Diseases--Early works to 1800
• Children--Diseases--Early works to 1800
• Sexually transmitted diseases--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 — Pars prima, De morbis feminarum
• fol. 48v — Liber II, De morbis puerorum
• fol. 62r — Tractatus de lue venerea

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial T
• fol. 48v — Decorated initial L
• fol. 62r — Decorated initial T