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Title

La fontaine de toute science

Authors

• Sidrac, 13th cent

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 912
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935591623503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122543881
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3559162

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle French

Origin

Date

1457

Place

France

Summary

Encyclopedic and didactic dialogue on natural philosophy in the form of a series of questions and answers, often classified as a romance. The philosopher Sidrac responds to the questions of Boctus (or Boccus or Bocchus), an Eastern king. Another subject of the dialogue is the therapeutic properties of plants. A table of contents at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 3r-20v) lists the questions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Incomplete at the end, 2 or more leaves missing.
   
• Wormholes in text, water-stained.
   

Extent

218 leaves : 285 x 215 (173 x 135) mm. bound to 295 x 215 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (modern paper) + 218 + ii (modern paper); [1-218]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

15th century blind-stamped calf, repaired and rebacked.

Layout

Written in 32 long lines.

Decoration

7-line puzzle initial in black and red (f. 21r); 2- and 3-line initials in red throughout; rubrics in red; capitals touched with yellow.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by Il Polifilo (Milan), cat. 21 (1952), no. 93.
   

Subjects topical

• Philosophy, Medieval
• Science, Medieval
• Materia medica, Vegetable--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Dialogues
• Romances
• Manuscripts, French--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• France
• French
• Paper
• Science
• Philosophy
• Science -- Medicine
• Literature -- Prose
• Dialogue

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 21r — Puzzle initial, Initial L, f. 21r