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Histoire curieuse et rare des plantes avec leurs figures, proprietés et vertus secrettes et inconnues / par le Sieur Eméry de sa propre main à Paris.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1891
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos. De materia medica.
- Dioscorides Pedanius.
- Medicine--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine.
- Botany--Pre-Linnean works.
- Botany.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- botanical illustrators
- commentaries
- herbals (reference sources)
- Manuscripts, French.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Marc-Antoine Petit, surgeon of Lyon (supralibros on upper cover).
- Sold by Justin Croft Antiquarian Books (Faversham, Kent, England), 2017.
- Physical Description:
- 246 leaves : paper ; 160 x 105 (115 x 70) mm bound to 170 x 120 mm
- Place of Publication:
- Paris, [between 1685 and 1699?]
- Language Note:
- French, with Latin scientific names.
- Summary:
- Illustrated botanical and medical manuscript based on a French translation (available in print from 1561) of the sixteenth-century Italian translation of and commentary on Dioscorides by the doctor and botanist Pietro Andrea Mattioli (Croft Books). The manuscript is divided into two parts, each beginning with a table of contents of plant names (f. 1v-3v, 137v-139v), with the second part paginated and page numbers entered into the table of contents. At the end of the first part are thirteen chapters on purgatives and purgation (f. 116r-136v). Oxidation, brittleness, and minor damage in some places, especially where the illustrations are densest.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1v-136v: [Tome 1]
- 2. f. 137r-244v: Tome 2.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. i recto).
- Foliation: Paper, i + 244 + i; modern foliation in pencil, 1-244, lower right recto; contemporary pagination in ink in second volume, 1-210 (f. 140r-244v), upper outer corners; references in this record are to modern foliation.
- Layout: 24 long lines.
- Script: Written in cursive script, possibly in the author's hand.
- Decoration: Numerous small botanical illustrations in ink in the text derived from the printed illustrations either in Mattioli's commentary on Dioscorides or in French pocket herbals derived from the same source (Croft Books); illustrated title page for the second volume with an ink drawing of a grand garden or park (f. 137r).
- Binding: Early (18th-century?) mottled calf, gilt spine with spine label, Histoi[re] des plante[s]; later gilt supralibros of Marc-Antoine Petit with formula Marco Antonio Petit et Amicis, upper cover.
- Origin: Written in Paris at the end of the 17th century.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1891.
- OCLC:
- 1033537029
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