Description of Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 10a 233: De crisibus libri III contributor Chrissie Perella cataloger Amey Hutchins Council on Library and Information Resources Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia These images and the content of Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 10a 233: De crisibus libri III 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/. To the extent possible under law, The Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia 10a 233: De crisibus libri III. 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. Modern paper flyleaves, the first and last with brown marbling, conjoint with the pastedowns Back flyleaves foliated 32-33 Kristeller, Paul Oskar, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: a Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries. Volume 5 (Alia Itinera III and Italy III): Sweden to Yugoslavia, Utopia [and] Supplement to Italy (A-F) (London: The Warburg Institute; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990), p. 356. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia by Peter Kidd Hirsch, Rudolf A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Archives of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1983), no. 323 United States Philadelphia The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia 10a 233 323 This manuscript is a thirteenth-century copy of Gherardo da Cremona's twelfth-century translation of a brief Galenic treatise on prognosis and change in the course of a disease. The text is known by the titles De crisibus, De crisis, and Peri criseos. The manuscript is divided into three parts and is mostly undecorated, with a puzzle initial at the beginning of the first book and simpler initials at the beginning of the second and third books. A later reader added running headings of the book division at the top of each folio. Latin De crisibus libri III Galen translator Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187 1r [Primus liber] 13v [Secundus liber] 22v Tertius liber

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 ii+31+ii; 240 × 160 mm bound to 248 x 170 mm Modern foliation in pencil, [i-ii, 1–33], upper right recto

1-3 (8), 4 (7, +1)

Horizontal, lower right last verso, in quires 2 and 3 (fols. 16v, 24v)

Two columns of forty-two lines, starting above top line; frame-ruled in faint ink (fols. 1v-8r) or lead (9v-31r); prickings occasionally survive in the upper and lower margins; written area 168–172 × 104–107 mm Gothic--textualis; single-compartment a One puzzle initial approximately seven lines high in red and blue filled with fine penwork in blue in leafy patterns and with two small quadrupeds, the exterior with red penwork with green washes, at the beginning of the first book (fol. 1r); the second and third books begin with simpler initials in red flourished with blue, or vice versa (fols. 13v, 22v) 1rPuzzle initial E 13vDecorated initial I 22vDecorated initial I

Modern half leather with marbled paper over pasteboards; spine lettered in gilt capitals Galenus / De / Crisi // Sec. XIII

First half 13th century

France Provenance details by Peter Kidd: 1. Written and decorated in France in the 13th century; the text is written 'above top line', suggesting the first half of the century, but the penflourishing of the first initial could be of the second half; handwritten description in purple ink on a slip of paper stuck to the first flyleaf: "... The MS is carefully written in the XIII th century probably in Italy … The text is the Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis and generally agrees with the printed edition in Primi voluminis Galeni quinta impressio. Venetiis (Giunta) 1522 f.239 v –258", annotated in pencil "(Dr. Bertalot's description of the MS)"; another note on printed notepaper of "Dr. David Riesman / 1520 Spruce Street / Philadelphia", signed "D.R." and dated [?]/29/40, addressed to "Dear M c Daniel" (i.e. W.B. McDaniel, Librarian from 1933 to 1953), begins "Dr. Rosenbach thinks $150 a reasonable price for the Galen MS." (fol.ir), i.e. Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876–1952), renowned Philadelphia book dealer; Dean Putnam Lockwood (1883–1965), professor of Latin at Haverford College (see below); College of Physicians: Library bookplate with stamped accession date "JUL 9, 1941" and typed notes "Library General Account." and "$ 125.00" (front pastedown); inscribed in pencil "Purchased through Mr. Dean P. Lockwood" (fol.iir, inner margin) Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Torah Treatise Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Treatise 13th century Puzzle initial Science -- Medicine France