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[Letter from Hippocrates to Caesar].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts LJS 421
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- French, Old (ca. 842-1300)
- Subjects (All):
- Hippocrates--Fiction.
- Hippocrates.
- Caesar, Julius--Fiction.
- Caesar, Julius.
- Medicine--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
- Traditional medicine.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- prescriptions
- Manuscripts, French.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Joseph Barrois; sold by Barrois to Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (Ashburnham no. 239), 1849.
- Sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of the Ashburnham collection, 10 June 1901, lot 277; handled subsequently by J. & J. Leighton (London) and Messers. Berkelouw (Sydney).
- Sold by Les Enluminures (Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Jul. 2001.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
- Physical Description:
- 24 leaves : parchment ; 180 x 112 (126 x 83) mm bound to 189 x 124 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [France], [between 1350 and 1375?]
- Language Note:
- Old French.
- Summary:
- Short collection of medical advice in prose, framed as sent by Hippocrates to Caesar, comprised of recipes followed by a guide to astronomical movements.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Foliation: Parchment, 24 ; [1-24] ; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 23-24 long lines ; ruled in ink; some prickings visible.
- Script: Written in a Gothic book script.
- Decoration: 2-line initial in red with red filigraine infill and descender (f. 1r); 2-line initials and paragraph marks in red.
- Binding: 19th-century brown calf, gilt framed, gilt lettering on spine.
- Origin: Written in France, probably in the third quarter of the 14th century.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 92 (LJS 421).
- Cited as:
- LJS 421
- OCLC:
- 759868553
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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