Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Hippocrates

Other related names

• Albert, Daniel M, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50035335)
• Albert, Eleanor, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88258293)

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968866473503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/940971217
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3599z76p

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1250 and 1299?

Summary

Lower part of a leaf from a large manuscript of the Hippocratic Aphorisms, probably written in Italy in the second half of the 13th century, later used for a binding. The parent manuscript was written in 2 columns, with the aphorisms written in a large Gothic hand separated by paragraphs of commentary in a smaller Gothic hand. The aphorisms on this fragment are from Book 5 (Aphorisms 55 and 58 on the more damaged recto and Aphorisms 60 and 62 on the verso) and concern disease and pregnancy. Two readers have annotated the leaf, one adding interlinear and brief marginal notes in a tiny cursive hand, the other writing extensive notes in the lower margins in a somewhat larger cursive hand. The notes in the lower margin on the verso are a quotation from Aristotle's Problemata referring to delectabilia. The recto was the outside of the binding and has the numeral V on what was the spine and a note in ink, Supplice essortationi, in Italian by a later hand.

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Sold by Maggs Bros. (London), 2004.
   
• Gift of Daniel and Eleanor Albert, in the Dr. Daniel and Eleanor Albert Medical Ephemera Collection, 2014.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine, Medieval
• Medicine, Medieval
• Gynecology--Early works to 1800
• Gynecology

Genres

• Fragments (object portions)
• Commentaries
• Annotations
• Manuscripts, Latin
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Fragment
• Binding waste
• Science
• Medicine
• Commentary

Licenses

• Text

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