MS 14 Antidotarium
Title
AntidotariumAuthors
- 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
Publisher
Bryn Mawr College LibraryLanguage
LatinOrigin
Last quarter 14th century
- Place
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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 mmFoliation
Modern foliation in pencil, upper right rectoCollation
1-5 (8), 6 (8, -8), 7 (8)Signatures
Quire and leaf signatures in lower right corner, rectoSupport
ParchmentCatchwords
Horizontal catchwords in lower left margin, verso, except for first and sixth quireBinding
Original parchment binding, single sheet folded at top and bottom and sewn with thread, outside of spine reinforced with leather strip sewn to parchmentLayout
Decoration
Three- or four-line initials with red penwork flourishes marking text divisions; smaller two-line initials and paragraph markers in red throughout
Script
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
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- Text
- These images and the content of Bryn Mawr College Library, MS 14: Antidotarium are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
- URL
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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- Text
- To the extent possible under law, Bryn Mawr College, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Bryn Mawr College Library MS 14: Antidotarium. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.
- URL
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
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
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