Collection ID: 0027 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Medical-pharmaceutical miscellany

Other related names

• Wickersham, Morris S., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

10a 132
(Philadelphia, United States, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Alternate identifiers

• Hirsch: 646

Publisher

Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

A collection of excerpts from various medical texts available to a sixteenth-century physician. This particular manuscript was probably organized and commissioned by an Italian physician. The book was never finished, as some of the pages have line drawings for illuminations that were never colored in. Of note in this book is the "Venereal Man" featured in a selection from De Apostematibus by Bertapalia. This specific section of the text refers to medical issues such as scrofulis ruptis (ruptured scrotum). It is unclear what Venereal Man's medical issue is precisely, however, he appears to have been circumcised, an uncommon practice in sixteenth-century Italy.

Notes

• In three or more hands
   
• Oval tear on p.19 about halfway down the page near the gutter
   
• Water stains from the top of the page to about 4/5 of the way down, beginning at p. 75 through p. 117
   
• Fol.76 in cipher
   
• Slightly cropped, with some loss of decoration on tops of pages
   

Extent

Iv+117+iii; 202 x 138 mm bound to 207 x 150 mm

Foliation

Paginated in contemporary brown ink in upper right-hand corner; flyleaves paginated in modern pencil in upper right-hand corner (i-iv and 118-120); fols. 46-69 missing

Collation

Uncertain. Appears to be sections by different scribes bound together (fols. 1-6, fols. 7-45, and fols. 70-117) (there are no fols. 46-69)

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in three-quarter white cloth and plain vellum, the spine with a black leather title-piece lettered in gilt capitals "Prohemium / Puntus / Huius / Operis // Circa 1545", and at the foot "C.M.P." (Coll. Med. Philad.); 10a 131 is in a matching binding

Layout

One column; ruled in ink in lines of twenty-four to thirty-one; written area: 170x121mm

Decoration

Incipits and chapters in red; paraphs in alternating red, green, or blue; scatter border p.1; several large decorative initials with gilding; Six inhabited initials, some unfinished; floral flourishes; Five unfinished miniatures; some initials and flourishes are line drawings only; line drawing of a nude male figure, a sketch of a human face, and a saint

Script

Humanistic

Gothic--cursiva

Provenance

• "1548" written in a contemporary hand on the top of fol. 110r; Morris S. Wickersham (1815–1883) (cf. 10a. 131), who apparently received his M.D. in 1835, but whose occupation is recorded in Philadelphia City directories in 1861 as "stockbroker", and in 1865 as "gentleman"; he appears never to have been a Fellow of the College; College of Physicians; with the College bookplate (upper pastedown) depicting a lamp on a pedestal above "Non sibi sed toti", enclosed within a belt bearing the legend "Ex libris Coll. Med. Philad. Instit. A.D. MCCLXXXVII", below which is printed "Class [space] No. [space] / Presented by [space]", the spaces filled-in by hand with "10a", "132" and "M. S. Wickersham, M.D.", respectively; the top left corner inscribed with the accession number "54849", corresponding to the (re) accession register, vol.8, for October 4, 1910.
   

Related resources

• Hirsch, Rudolf, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Archives of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1983), no. 646.

Keywords

• Damage
• Miscellany
• 16th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Science
• Science -- Medicine
• Paper

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated foliate border
• fol. 1r — Large illuminated initial O
• fol. 3r — Large illuminated initial C
• fol. 7r — Partial decorated border
• fol. 7v — Partial decorated border
• fol. 8r — Partial decorated border
• fol. 8v — Partial decorated border
• fol. 9r — Partial decorated border
• fol. 9v — Partial decorated border
• fol. 10v — Partial decorated border
• fol. 11v — Partial decorated border
• fol. 12r — Partial decorated border
• fol. 16r — Partial decorated border
• fol. 16v — Partial decorated border
• fol. 17r — Partial decorated border
• fol. 17v — Partial decorated border
• fol. 18r — Partial decorated border
• fol. 19r — Large decorated initial S
• fol. 20r — Large decorated initial E
• fol. 20r — Small inhabited initial C
• fol. 20v — Decorated border
• fol. 20v — Large decorated initial C
• fol. 21r — Partial decorated border
• fol. 21r — Large inhabited initial C
• fol. 21v — Partial decorated border
• fol. 21v — Large decorated initial C
• fol. 22r — Partial decorated border
• fol. 22r — Large decorated initial C
• fol. 22v — Partial decorated border (line drawing)
• fol. 22v — Large decorated initial I (line drawing)
• fol. 24r — Ink drawing of a nude male figure
• fol. 28r — Large decorated initial I (line drawing)
• fol. 29r — Several small line drawings
• fol. 29v — Two small line drawings including one of a skull
• fol. 40v — Small decorated initial E (line drawing)
• fol. 76v — Line drawing of animal
• fol. 110r — Color drawing of a plant, including leaves and roots
• fol. 117v — Line drawing of the figure of a man