Thesaurus pauperum ... [etc.].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

John XXI, Pope, -1277, attributed name.

Contributor:

Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316, attributed name.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

diagrams

drawings (visual works)

prescriptions

recipes

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 1997.

Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Physical Description:

233 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 147 x 104 (92-95 x 66-69) mm bound to 147 x 118 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [1450-1499?]

Language Note:

Latin, with one section (f. 267r-272r) and some recipes, notes, and names in Italian.

Summary:

Medical miscellany with almost the first half of the volume devoted to a copy of Thesaurus pauperum, a compilation of remedies for a variety of diseases frequently attributed to Petrus Hispanus, later Pope John XXI. The remainder includes a work by Arnaldus de Villanova, a partial copy of a work by Johannes de Rupescissa, a work attributed to Ramon Llull, and several other unattributed collections of remedies. Lists of multiple names, perhaps of teachers or students, many associated with locations in northern Italy, added by a few hands (f. 165r-167r, 265r-266r).

Contents:

1. f.1r-100v: Thesaurus pauperum [often attributed elsewhere to Petrus Hispanus, later Pope John XXI; Thorndike-Kibre 698, 1132)]

2. f.101r-138v: Medicina mirabilis et secreta.

3. f.149r-163r: Liber computi de festis anni.

4. f.163v-167v: [Poems, pen trials, names of teachers and others, drawings]

5. f.173r-213v: Liber de consideratione 5 essentiae omnium rerum / [Johannes de Rupescissa; beginning lacking]

6. f.213v-223v: Ars operativa / Magistri Raymundi [attributed in manuscript to Ramon Llull; Thorndike-Kibre 296]

7. f.223v-233v: [Medical recipes]

8. f.233v- 236r: [Medical recipes] / eddite a fratre Andrea Portugallensi.

9. f.236r-247r: Tractatus utilissimus de proprietatibus aque vite / editus per Magistrum Arnaldum de villa nova [Thorndike-Kibre 645]

10. f.247r-263v: [Medical recipes in Latin and Italian]

11. f.265r-266v: [Notes, names of men and women]

12. f.267r-272r: [Pharmacological treatise in Italian]

13. f.272r-278r: [Medical recipes in Latin and Italian]

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title for manuscript from explicit for predominant work (f. 101r).

Collation: Paper, 233 + i (11th-century parchment); 1¹⁰(-2) 2-11¹⁰ 12¹⁰(-2) 13¹⁰(-8) 14¹⁰(-4) 15¹²(-5) 16-21¹⁰ 22¹² 23¹²(-3) 24¹⁰(-1) 25¹²; early foliation in ink, [1], 2-8, 11-69, 80-89, 100-138, 149-151, 154-157, 160-167, 173-212, 113, 214-247, 251-263, 265-278 (f. 9-10, 139-148, 152-153, 158-159, 168-172 torn out), upper right recto. Catchwords on the last verso of gatherings 2-11, 13-14, 16-23 (f. 20v, 30v, 40v, 50v, 60v, 80v, 100v, 110v, 120v, 130v, 150v, 160v, 182v, 192v, 202v, 212v, 222v, 232v, 244v, 256v); at least one gathering may be missing after a dangling catchword on gathering 21 (f. 232v). References in this record are to foliation as it appears in the manuscript. Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout: Written in 31-35 long lines; some pages frame-ruled in lead.

Script: Written in Gothic cursive script by at least 3 hands.

Decoration: Diagram of chemical apparatus in text (f. 260r); rough drawings in ink of faces (f. 167v); spaces left for 2-line and 3-line initials, with guide letters

Binding: Original (15th-century) parchment with 5 metal bosses on each cover and remnants of a clasp; title Thesaurus pauperum partially visible on the upper cover in ink; attachment of covers to spine and binding to manuscript very fragile. Back flyleaf and pastedown are formed from a fragment from a mid-11th-century German homiliary; the text is from Pope Leo I's Sermon 42, on Quadragesima.

Origin: Written in northern Italy in the second half of the 15th century.

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. 92 (LJS 236).

Cited as:

LJS 236

Contains:

Johannes, de Rupescissa, approximately 1300-approximately 1365. Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum.

Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311. Tractatus de proprietatibus aque vite.

Ars operativa medica.

OCLC:

824738751

Online:

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

Collation model