Item Summary

Medical miscellany consisting of manuscript and incunabula works.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Thesaurus pauperum] ... [etc.]
Call Number
EXI R128 .L534 1480z
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc0z709b14b
Publisher
[late 15th century]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1475-1499
Format
Manuscript
Extent
84 leaves : paper ; 195 x 132 (118-145 x 80-95) mm bound to 203 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Owned by Jehan Trioch. Intermediate provenance unknown. Later owned by Joseph A. Freilich. Sold in 2001 by Sotheby's New York to Percy N. Bernevik. Sold at Christie's London in 2002.
Source Acquisition
Purchased from Christie's, London, sale of Wed 20 Nov 2002, lot 5 (consigned from a Private European library, i.e. Percy Barnevik.)
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 520-521.
Goff E-1.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. i-iii: [Medical recipes and notes]. Includes recipies "Contra scabiem totius corporis" and "Ad prou[o]candum urinam".
2. fol. 1r-65r: [Thesaurus pauperum].
3. [1] leaf + [53] pages: Liber aggregationis, seu, Liber secretorum Alberti magni. Falsely attributed to Albertus Magnus. Also contains De mirabilibus mundi. [Geneva : Louis Cruse, after 1487]. Signatures: a⁶,b⁸,c⁶,d⁸.
4. [76] pages: Le traictie des eaues artificielles, les vertus et proprietes dicelles. Contains colored woodblock. [Paris : Antoine Caillaut, ca. 1490]. Signatures: A-D⁸,E⁶.
5. fol. 1r-8r (2nd group): La preservation et curation de l’epidemie.
6. fol. 8v-16r (2nd group): [Medical recipes and notes]. Includes "Contra convit[i]um et debilitatem stomachi", "Pilula pro febrem", "Aqua contra pestem", "Pilula contra pestem", "Contra dolorem ventris", and "Unguentum contra vermes".
Notes
Incipit: [Thesaurus pauperum] "Pro fundamento huius operis signo crucis salutifero et eius vexillo ..." -- [La preservation et curation de l’epidemie] "Cest la preservation et curation de leppydemye selon maistre Jehan dit a la barbe maistre du medicine. Les quatres elements ..."
Explicit: [Thesaurus pauperum] "... et dolore sanus fuit et omnino a morbo illo sanatus." -- [La preservation et curation de l’epidemie] "... et non plus de ceste metere. Explicit cest tractus."
Composite codex.
Title devised by catalgoer.
Inscriptions on both pastedowns.
Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 65 (first group), 16 (second group) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 24-29 long lines per page ; ruled in hardpoint.
Description: Main manuscript texts written by one hand, medical recipes and notes in several hands ; watermarks (manuscript: bull's head, side-by-side fleur-de-lis; Le traictie des eaues: fleur-de-lis; manuscript: sun?, bull's head)
Decoration: Le traictie des eaues artificielles: woodcut; manuscript: blue and red puzzle initials open texts on folios 1r, and 1r (2nd group).
Origin: Manuscript written in France?
Binding Note
Later binding. France, late 15th or early 16th century. Blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (5 mm thick). Leather diapered in blind, with each compartment lettered in blind with single tool: ihs; vestiges of brass catch and clasp on fore-edges of covers; holes on each cover for five bosses, now gone; in red cloth clamshell box with red goatskin spine.

Discovery Information

Subject
Medicine—Formulae, receipts, prescriptions—Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin—New Jersey—Princeton
Medical formularies
Woodcuts
Blind tooled bindings
Watermarks
Wooden boards
Bosses (Bindings)
Clasps
Sammelbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
304

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e9a81ec2-421a-4051-aabb-a8d6aec9ac2e/manifest