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Add MS 22636
- Record Id:
- 032-002096607
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002096607
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000041.0x00028e
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 22636
- Title:
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Thesaurus Pauperum and a collection of medical texts
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-22v: A herbal text with pharmacopoeial and cosmetic recipes (beginning 'Ad faciendum pulchra...'), in a script of the second half of the 15th century.
ff. 23r-46v: Pope John XXI, Thesaurus Pauperum.
f. 46r: Fragment of a poem in Occitan (see Harley 7403, f. 49r).
ff. 47-58, 61-85: Campania Salerno, Tractatus medici secundum Scholam Salernitanam.
ff. 59r-v: Tractatus breves.
ff. 88-113: Maurus, Antidotarium.
f. 141: Tractatus de morbis equorum curandis.
f. 151 Apocryphal Gospels Fragment.
Decoration:
Miniatures in colours of rocky landscapes with buildings, churches, fortifications, roads, plants, and occasionally human figures (ff. 2v, 4r-18r).
A pen and ink drawing of a man kneeling before the Virgin and Child (f. 1r).
A pen and ink drawing with red tinting of a seated doctor holding a medicine jar and a rod, with shelves of medicines behind him (f. 60v).
Small drawings of seated scholars (ff. 19v and 20r).
Major initials decorated. Minor initials zoomorphic and decorated. Line-fillers. Manufacturing aids.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002096607
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002096607
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
Occitan, Old - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 13th century-14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Publications:
- Clovis Brunel, Bibliographie des manuscrits littéraires en ancien provençal (Paris: Librairie E. Droz, 1935), no. 15.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- John XXI, Pope, d 1277
Maurus, Magister - Places:
- Salerno, Campania
- Related Material:
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From the printed Catalogue of Additions:
'PETRI HISPANI Thesaurus Pauperum, et alia medica, viz.: 1. "Liber qui dicitur tesaurus pauperum, factus a magistro petro spanio;" in eighty-five chapters, preceded by a table of contents. The author was elected Pope (John XXI.) in 1276 and d. 1277. f. 23.
2. "Liber compendii secundum m[agistrum] Salern[itan]um;" preceded by a table of contents, f. 47. See Harl. MS. 3,719, f. 10 b.
3. Fabella quædam, de Christo et tribus bonis fratribus, f. 59.
4. Tractatus brevis "de penitentia," f. 59 b.
5. Tractatus de morbis juclicandis per urinas. Imperfect at the beginning. At ff. 78, 79 reference is made to the use of certain herbs and roots by "mulieres nostre salernitane." f. 61.
6. Tractatus "de pulsibus:" in Harl. MS. 3,719, f. 275 b, called Tractatus pulsuum secundum salernum, f. 79.
7. Tractatulus de urinis, f. 85 b.
8. "Liber Antidotarium. M[agister] Maurus." Book of receipts for compounding drugs, and for the treatment of diseases, alphabetically arranged; sometimes known as a "dispensatorium." f. 88.
9. Synonoma herbarum, ff. 114, 138.
10. Collectio tractatuum de diætâ, de febribus, de clisteribus, suppositoriis, et siropis, etc., ff. 117-130, 132, 133, 140.
11. Antidotarium, sive dispensatorium. Imperfect at the beginning; the first complete article is headed "de requies." f. 134.
12. Tractatus de morbis equorum curandis. Imperfect at the beginning. f. 141.
13. Herbarium; commencing "Strignus. hoc est una lupina," etc. Imperfect at the end. f. 143. A copy of the same also at f. 151b.
14. Fragmentum evangelii apocryphi, f. 151. At the beginning and later in the volume have been inserted medical prescriptions in hands of the 14th century. At the end of the Thesaurus Pauperum (f. 46 b) is written, "Quiuol auir un bon tractat queay nouellamens trobat quay trat dellibre ancias." Vellum; XIIIth and XIVth centt.; with coloured figures of plants, landscapes, etc., at the beginning. Small Quarto.