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

Title

Other related names

• Mitchell, Silas Weir, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/56749017/#Mitchell,_S._Weir_(Silas_Weir),_1829-1914)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 2
• Hirsch: 28

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript contains De cura sterilitatis mulierum and De infirmitatis, including diagrams of instruments for the treatment of eye conditions, such as cataracts, tumors, and lacrimal fistula.

Notes

• Pages closely cropped with minor losses of text
   
• Final four flyleaves are foliated in modern pencil
   
• There is likely at least one quire missing between quires 1 and 2
   

Extent

Foliation

Collation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Incipit in red (fol. 1r); manicules and marginal notes cropped; diagrams of medical instruments for the treatment of eye conditions (fol. 11v)

Script

Provenance

• Cartelle (op.cit.) believed that the present manuscript is the earliest surviving copy of which he was aware; he attributed the composition of the work within the orbit of the University of Montpellier in the early 14th century; Inscribed probably in Italy, 18th or 19th century, "Manuscritto del sec. XIV to. / dopo il 1350." (fol.19v); Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) of Philadelphia, neurologist, President of the College of Physicians for two terms, from 1886 and 1892; College of Physicians: Library bookplate (front pastedown) inscribed with record of presentation by "S. Weir Mitchell, M.D.", and with a price of "( $ 9.36)"; a College Library ink stamp (fol.19v) with the original accession date "Dec. 29 1894"; the bookplate with an accession(?) number "10003", crossed through, and superseded by the reaccession number "54850", the latter corresponding to the (re) Accession Register, on October 4, 1910; with an oval blindstamp of the College Library (fol.8r)
   

Related resources

• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia by Peter Kidd (http://www.academia.edu/19606281/A_Descriptive_Catalogue_of_the_Medieval_Manuscripts_in_the_Library_of_the_College_of_Physicians_Philadelphia)
• Hirsch, Rudolf, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Archives of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1983), no. 28.

Keywords

• 14th century
• Italy
• Science -- Medicine
• Diagrams
• Gothic

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — De cura sterilitatis mulierum and De infirmitatis

Decorations

• fol. 11v — Instrument diagrams