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

Title

De semine et sanguine menstruo

Authors

• Albertino Bottoni (http://viaf.org/viaf/77129132)
• Girolamo Mercuriale (http://viaf.org/viaf/22191701)

Other related names

• Hough, John Stockton, 1845-1900, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/4861398)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

10a 154
(Philadelphia, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Alternate identifiers

• Hirsch: 959

Publisher

Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy?

Summary

This manuscript was written in the late sixteenth century and contains eight separate texts, including several by Bottoni and several by Mercuriale.

Notes

• Contains eight separate texts, including several by Bottoni and several by Mercuriale
   
• Written on quarto sheets, folded, some sheets are still uncut
   

Watermark

At least three different watermarks; all difficult to identify: six-pointed star attached to circle with smaller circle within, resembles Briquet, Filigranes, no. 3120 but with smaller circle inside larger; three-armed cross with small circles on ends of arms, long straight line on bottom as forth arm, resembles Briquet no. 5463 but without robust forth arm; and simple crown[?] inside circle, slightly resembles Briquet no. 4630 but with more rounded prongs and shorter outside prongs; all Briquet numbers similar to these watermarks are dated too early (fifteenth century) for this manuscript, which can't be earlier than 1581

Extent

Iii+363+v; 213 x 158 mm bound to 228 x 171 mm

Foliation

Paginated in nineteenth-century pencil in upper right-hand corner; flyleaves unnumbered

Collation

Unclear

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Some catchwords survive

Binding

Limp parchment wrapper with contemporary leather ties attached to front and back covers

Layout

One column; ruled in ink in lines of thirty to forty; written area: 205 x 118 mm

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Humanistic

At least two hands

Provenance

• Dr. John Stockton Hough, a nineteenth-century medical bibliophile: Hough received his M.D. from the Medical College of the University of Pennsylvania in 1868, but seems to have stopped practicing medicine by the 1870s, and subsequently spent several years living and travelling around Europe, beginning in 1874; became a "gentleman farmer" in Ewing Township, West Trenton, NJ, in 1887; died on 6 May 1900, his large collection of books was purchased by the College in 1901 through numerous funds; 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", "154" and a typed, pasted scrap denoting "Library General Account", respectively; top left corner inscribed with the accession number "63738", corresponding to the accession register for December 17, 1903
   

Related resources

• Hirsch, Rudolf, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Archives of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1983), no. 959.

Keywords

• Treatise
• 16th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Binding
• Paper
• Science
• Science -- Medicine

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