[De urinarum judiciis].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Montagnana, Bartolomeo, active 1422-1460.

Contributor:

Schwarz, Victor, former owner.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Urine--Analysis--Early works to 1800.

Urine--Analysis.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Victor A. Schwarz (bookplate inside upper cover).

Sold by Sokol Books Ltd. (London), cat. 40 (2002), no. 88, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Physical Description:

78 leaves : paper ; 150 x 96 (94 x 55) mm bound to 156 x 107 mm

Production:

[France?], [after 1500]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Manuscript copy of a printed edition of Montagnana's work on the analysis of urine in diagnosing disease; text includes variants not in the first edition of 1487 but found in an edition published ca. 1500. A few marginal notes and some underlining on the first (f. 1r-5r) and last (f. 72v-78v) leaves.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 78 + i (modern paper); 1⁸ 2¹⁰ 3⁶ 4¹⁰ 5⁶ 6-9⁸ 10⁸(-2); modern foliation in pencil every eighth leaf, lower right recto.

Layout: Written in 20-22 long lines.

Script: Written in Gothic cursive script with chapter and section headings in a more calligraphic Gothic script.

Binding: Modern limp parchment.

Origin: Possibly written in France, after 1500.

Local Notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 89-90 (LJS 430).

Cited as:

LJS 430

OCLC:

779636882

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page