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Herbal ... [etc.].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize LJS 46
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Italian
- Latin
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Materia medica--Early works to 1800.
- Materia medica.
- Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800.
- Botany, Medical.
- Botany--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
- Botany.
- Morocco--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Morocco.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- herbals (reference sources)
- pen and wash drawings
- Manuscripts, Italian.
- Manuscripts, English.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by the Latham family of Lancashire (crest of eagle and child on covers) and by Thomas and Edward Syddell (16th-century inscription, f. 1r).
- Sold at auction at Bonhams, Dec. 1995.
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1996.
- Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle in honor of Lynn Ransom, Project Manager, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, 2012.
- Physical Description:
- 102 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 302 x 205 mm (f. 2-53) and 290 x 205 (265 x 145) mm (f. 1, 54-104) bound to 307 x 215 mm + 2 notes
- Place of Publication:
- [Italy and England], [1520, ca. 1600?]
- Language Note:
- Plant names in Latin, with a few words in Italian (f. 2r-53v); texts about Morocco in English, Spanish, and Latin (54r-97v); glossary of words in Arabic, Spanish, and Latin (f. 98r-101r).
- Summary:
- Italian illustrated herbal, with a group of texts in English, Latin, and Spanish about Morocco added less than a century later.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r: Dictionarium arabicum, Numerorum nomina.
- 2. f.1v: [Botanical sketches in ink]
- 3. f.2r-53v: Herbal.
- 4. f.54r-70r: [Notes on the plants of Morocco and their uses]
- 5. f.72r-v: [Names of cities, towns and mountains in the provinces of Fez, Tremecen, and Tunis]
- 6. f.73r-78v: Reyno de maruecos / P. Marmol.
- 7. f.82r-86r: The regid of Morocus [Spanish with English title]
- 8. f.87r-88r: The regid of Morocus [English]
- 9. f.89r-90r: The citty of Morocus, Customes of the citty of Morocus.
- 10. f.90v-91r: Customes, estates, and offices of the court of Mulley Hamed [Muley Muhamed, d. 1603]
- 11. f.92r-97r: The towne of Altamimay.
- 12. f.97v: [Index to the notes on the plants of Morocco]
- 13. f.98r-101r: Nomina substantiva [glossary in Latin, Spanish, and Arabic]
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from spine.
- Collation: Paper, ii + 102 + ii; 1¹ 2²⁸ 3²⁴ 4⁴⁴ 5⁸; [1-53], 1-17 [=54-70], [71-102]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
- Script: Written in italic script, by at least two hands (f. 2-53, and f. 1, 54-101).
- Decoration: 110 colored wash drawings of plants with roots and flowers (f. 2-53).
- Binding: Parchment contemporary with later texts, gilt, with stamp of eagle and child on covers; remnants of 2 pairs of green silk ties; title (Herbal) written on spine in ink.
- Origin: Herbal illustrated in Italy, ca. 1520 (f. 2r-53v); texts on Morocco written in England, ca. 1600 (f. 1r-v, 54r-101r).
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 106 (LJS 46).
- Cited as:
- UPenn LJS 46
- OCLC:
- 779349249
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
- Collation model
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