Liber Bibliae moralis and other fragments, 1400s.

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Bersuire, Pierre, approximately 1290-1362

Standardized Title:

• Liber Bibliae moralis. Selections

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

• Medicine, Medieval.

Genre:

• detached leaves
• Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.
• Manuscripts, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

• Gift of Ralph Rosen, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2014.

Physical Description:

1 item (22 leaves) : paper

Place of Publication:

1400s.

Language Note:

In Latin.

Summary:

22 partial bifolia and leaves from up to 3 Latin manuscripts, probably copied in France in the 15th century, later cut into upper and lower halves and used in a binding. 7 partial leaves and bifolia (f. 1r-12v) are medical excerpts from Pierre Bersuire's Liber Bibliae moralis (identified by Brian P. Long), with section numbers in the upper margins and subsection letters in the side margins, 11A, 12A, 19D-22B, and with headings such as Humiditas, Olofactus, Gustus, Humor, and Sanguis written in Gothic textura with 2- or 3-line initials in red or blue. All of the texts are otherwise written in Gothic cursive in 2 columns, by at least three hands, and are rubricated, although not consistently and perhaps by later hands. Scriptural and literary references appear on the unidentified leaves that do not contain medical texts (fragments 13-25). Worm damage in margins.

OCLC:

947912060