Collection ID: 0029 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum

Authors

• Johannes, de Rupescissa, approximately 1300-approximately 1365 (https://viaf.org/viaf/161741750)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MSS 95, Item 14
(Newark, DE, United States, University of Delaware Library, Unidel History of Chemistry Collection)

Alternate identifiers

• http://delcat.worldcat.org/oclc/40892782

Publisher

University of Delaware Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript is a fifteenth-century copy of Johannes de Rupescissa's De consideratione quintae essentiae rerum omnium. It was written in Italy in Gothic rotunda script in a single column on parchment with alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. The first leaf of the preface is missing and the following four leaves (fols. 1-4) are badly rubbed, affecting text. Rupescissa's work is divided into two books, with the second comprising twenty numbered remedies. The final leaves of the volume contain a selection from Michele Savonarola's De arte conficiendi aquam vitae (fols. 50r-51r) and an unattributed remedy for catarrh titled Remedium notabile contra passionem Catharri (fol. 51r-51v). Corrections contemporary to the text are in the margins, as are notes by a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century reader marking correspondences to a printed edition of the text and sections of the manuscript not present in that printed edition.

Notes

• Modern paper flyleaves
   

Extent

I+52+i; 165 x 120 mm bound to 168 x 125 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (9, +9), 2-5 (10), 6 (3, +1)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords lower center last verso, quires 1-5 (fols. 9v, 19v, 29v, 39v, 49v)

Binding

Modern cloth

Layout

Written in one column of twenty-seven lines; ruled in lead or faint ink, left vertical bounding line occasionally visible; written area: 110 x 75 mm

Decoration

Later large (six lines) illuminated initial with marginal extension of acanthus leaves (fol. 5v); marginal drawing of amphora-like vessel (fol. 10); initials of two to four lines alternating between red with brown (text ink) penwork and blue with red penwork throughout; paragraph marks alternating between red and blue throughout; rubrication in red

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Formerly held in the Biblioteca communale of Savignano di Romagna, before 1890; purchased by the University of Delaware, 1968
   

Related resources

• Mazzatinti, Giuseppe. Inventari dei manoscritti delle biblioteche d'Italia, Volume 1 (Forli: Casa Editrice Luigi Bordandini, 1890), p. 94, no. 41.

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Science -- Medicine

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Preface (partial)
• fol. 5v — Primus liber
• fol. 36r — Liber secundus
• fol. 50r — Oleum balsaminum
• fol. 51r — Pro remedio Catharri

Decorations

• fol. 5v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 10v — Marginal drawing, Amphora
• fol. 33r — Marginalia