Collection ID: 0028 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

De tartaro et eius origine in corpore humano

Authors

• Paracelsus, 1493-1541 (http://viaf.org/viaf/12313247)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 239/6
(Philadelphia, United States, Rosenbach Museum & Library)

Publisher

Rosenbach Museum & Library

Language

Latin; English

Origin

Place

England

Summary

This manuscript contains a sixteenth-century copy of De tartaro et eius origine in corpore humano. The treatise is in Latin, while the introduction (addressed to William Cecil, Lord Burghley) is in English.

Watermark

Hand with flower/star (16th c.)

Extent

Ii+22+ii; 310 x 205 mm bound to 317 x 215 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil upper right recto; contemporary foliation lower inner margin verso (fols. 12-14 are not numbered)

Collation

1 (8), 2 (14)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Catchwords provided on each folio lower inner margin verso

Layout

One column in long lines of twenty-six -to thirty lines; evidence of ruling by hard point; written area: 220 x 130 mm

Decoration

Spaces left for initials (fols. 1, 9, 17, 18)

Script

Secretary

Provenance

• Addressed to William Cecil, Lord Burghley (fol. 1r); possibly written by a court physician
   

Keywords

• 16th century
• German
• England
• Paper
• Science -- Medicine
• Science

Licenses

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