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

Title

Medical, alchemical, and craft materials recipes, 15th and 16th centuries.

Authors

• Domina Maria Barbani, di Corticelle

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MSS 95, Item 15
(Newark, DE, United States, University of Delaware Library, Unidel History of Chemistry Collection)

Alternate identifiers

• http://delcat.worldcat.org/oclc/40887544

Publisher

University of Delaware Library

Language

Italian

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript is a compilation of remedies for various ills chiefly using wine, recipes for pills, for purifying metals, recipes and instructions for making colors for painting, enameling. The first half of the manuscript (fols. 1-32) is 15th century on parchment. Additional remedies in a 16th century hand, for inflamed testicles, menstrual distress, toothache, headache, leprosy, and recipes for birth control and various hair dyes. Folios 1-46 are parchment (1st gathering water-damaged); folios 47-61 are paper. Some marginalia, including multiple signatures of Dom[ina] Maria Barbani di Corticelle, one dated Oct. 1506.

Notes

• Accompanied by a dealer's description in German
   

Extent

127 x 90 mm bound to 135 x 103 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation, pencil, post hoc

Collation

1-5 (8), 6 (6), 7 (16), 8 (5, +1)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Parchment binding, one tie remaining.

Layout

Two columns of twenty-four lines each (fols. 1-32); ruled lightly; written area: 88 x 67 mm

One column of twenty-two lines each (fols. 33-61)

Decoration

Colored initials through fol. 32

Script

Gothic

Provenance

• Dom(ina) Maria Barbani di Corticelli; 1506
   

Keywords

• 15th century
• 16th century
• Italian
• Recipe book
• Science -- Medicine
• Alchemy

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Ten-line red initial P
• fol. 1r — Marginal drawing
• fol. 1v — Two-line red initial U
• fol. 2r — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 3r — Two-line red initial U
• fol. 4r — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 5r — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 7v — Two-line red initial U
• fol. 10r — Two-line red initial Q (x2)
• fol. 10v — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 10v — Two-line red initial U
• fol. 11v — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 12r — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 14v — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 15r — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 16r — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 16v — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 17r — Two-line red initial L (x2)
• fol. 17r — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 17v — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 17v — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 18r — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 18v — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 19r — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 22v — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 23r — "Barbani" marginalia
• fol. 23v — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 24r — Two-line red initial A (x2)
• fol. 24v — Marginal writing
• fol. 24v — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 24v — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 25r — Marginal writing, "Dom Maria Barbani di Corticelle
• fol. 25r — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 25r — Three line blue initial O
• fol. 32r — Signatures and a stylized monogram, (DMB - Domina Maria Barbani); inscription reads "Laus Omnipotens Deo; Dei paveai Vireisi<?>", possible translation from Latin; "praise almighty god, or let man fear his wrath"
• fol. 1r — Ten-line red initial P
• fol. 1r — Marginal drawing
• fol. 1v — Two-line red initial U
• fol. 2r — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 3r — Two-line red initial U
• fol. 4r — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 5r — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 7v — Manicule
• fol. 17r — Manicule