Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Antidotarium

Authors

• Nicolaus, Salernitanus, active 12th century (https://lccn.loc.gov/n87885172)

Other related names

• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/nr99022084)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 14
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms14.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

England?

Summary

This is a manuscript of Nicholas of Salerno's Antidotarium, a twelfth century book of medicinal recipes, dating from the last quarter of the fourteenth century, most likely from England. Likely provenance includes the Hale family of Alderley, based on the bookplate on fol. 33v. It appears to be in its original parchment binding.

Notes

• Previously Goodhart 91
   
• Marginal notations in the same hand throughout
   

Extent

55; 188 x 140 mm bound to 208 x 138 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-5 (8), 6 (8, -8), 7 (8)

Signatures

Quire and leaf signatures in lower right corner, recto

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in lower left margin, verso, except for first and sixth quire

Binding

Original parchment binding, single sheet folded at top and bottom and sewn with thread, outside of spine reinforced with leather strip sewn to parchment

Layout

Single column, twenty-four ruled lines with single vertical and upper horizontal bounding lines and double lower horizontal bounding lines, full across in ink; prickings visible in all three outer margins

Decoration

Three- or four-line initials with red penwork flourishes marking text divisions; smaller two-line initials and paragraph markers in red throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis quadrata

Provenance

• The text is attributed to Nicholas of Salerno (Nicolaus Salernitanus), an Italian physician, and was composed in the first half of the twelfth century; this copy probably written in England, in the last quarter of the fourteenth century; early provenance unknown; on fol. 33v, bookplate of "Hale of Alderly," Gloucester, England, dated '41; purchased from Maggs (typed description on detached sheet accompanies text) in 1949 by Howard L. Goodhart, and presented by him to Bryn Mawr College in 1951
   

Related resources

• Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 435, no. 14.
• Goltz, Dietlinde. Mittelalterliche pharmazie und medizin: dargest. an geschichte und inhalt des Antidotarium Nicolai, (Stuttgart, 1976).

Keywords

• Recipe book
• 14th century
• English
• Original binding
• England
• Science -- Medicine

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Antidotarium; incipit: Ego nicholaus rogatus a quibusdam in practica medicine studere volentibus. Vt eis recto ordine modum dispensandi conficiendique docerem et certam eis traderem doctrinam.; explicit: ..duobus modis fortiter in mortario tunsis ponantur, in oculo per vii dies, viii autem die, super ignem ponantur et coquantur donec herbe//

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Four-line initial E with red penwork flourishes extending into inner and upper border
• fol. 1r — Pen trials
• fol. 1v — Three-line initial A with red penwork flourishes
• fol. 6r — Four-line initial B with red penwork flourishes extending into inner border
• fol. 7r — Four-line initial A with red penwork flourishes
• fol. 9r — Four-line initial D with red penwork flourishes extending into inner border
• fol. 9v — Pen trials
• fol. 10r — Pen trials
• fol. 19r — Three-line initial E with red penwork flourishes extending into inner border
• fol. 26r — Three-line initial F with red penwork flourishes
• fol. 27r — Three-line initial G with red penwork flourishes
• fol. 28r — Four-line initial I with red penwork flourishes
• fol. 30r — Three-line initial L with red penwork flourishes
• fol. 31r — Three-line initial Q with red penwork flourishes
• fol. 33r — Three-line initial N with red penwork flourishes
• fol. 33v — Bookplate of "Hale of Alderly," Gloucester, England, dated '41; otherwise page lined, but blank
• fol. 34r — Three-line initial O with red penwork flourishes
• fol. 36r — Three-line initial P with red penwork flourishes
• fol. 42r — Three-line initial Q with red penwork flourishes
• fol. 43r — Three-line initial R with red penwork flourishes
• fol. 45r — Three-line initial S with red penwork flourishes
• fol. 48r — Three-line initial T with red penwork flourishes
• fol. 53r — Three-line initial U with red penwork flourishes