Contra impedimiam.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Joannes Jacobi, -1384, associated name.

Norman, Haskell F., associated name.

Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

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

Medicine.

Plague--Early works to 1800.

Plague.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

prescriptions

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Appears in Jacques Rosenthal's Bibliotheca medii aevi manuscripta (Band 2): Einhundert Handschriften des Mittelalters vom zehnten bis zum fünfzehnten Jahrhundert (cat. 90, Munich, 1928), number 186.

Appears in Art Ancien S.A. Bibliotheca Medica. A Collection of 900 Medical Books, Prints and Broadsides of the 15th-19th Centuries, many recently removed from Great Public and Private Libraries including Numerous First Editions of Famous Physicians from Hippocrates to Freud (cat. 21, Zurich, 1937), number 703.

Appears in William H. Schab's cat. 16 (New York, 1952), number 78.

Formerly owned by the Janus Foundation (president, history of science collector Haskell F. Norman), San Francisco (bookplate, inside upper cover).

Sold by Bruce McKittrick Rare Books (Narberth, Pennsylvania), 2021.

Physical Description:

6 leaves : paper ; 202 x 140 (122 x 85) mm bound to 206 x 148 mm.

Place of Publication:

[France], [circa 1400-1450]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Small 15th-century collection of advice and prescriptions for the plague, likely abridged from other manuscript sources. The recommendations address diet, exertion, avoiding public gatherings, and bloodletting. The text of this manuscript is related to that of Paris, BNF lat. 7138, ff. 109-110 in order, vocabulary (except for the use in this manuscript of the term impedimia for plague, rather than the more common epidimia), and references to 14th-century Montpellier physician Joannes Jacobi (f. 3r, 4v).

Contents:

1. f.1r: Contra impedimiam

f.1r-1v: De regimine fructuum

f.1v: De regimine ciborum

f.1v-5v: Quae vitari debent in medicina et sompni

f.6r-6v: Sequitur regimen [?] seu patientium impedimiam.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from

Collation: Paper, ii (modern) + 6 + ii (modern); 1⁶; [1-6], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout:; Written in 22-24 long lines; ruled in lead; quarto format.

Script: Written in Gothic cursive script.

Decoration: Penwork initials at the beginning of paragraphs and 2 decorative line fillers (f. 1v, 2v).

Watermark: Similar to Briquet Lettre A, 7901-7904, used in France, Germany, and Switzerland in the last decade of the 14th century and first half of the 15th century.

Binding: Modern half-vellum over boards.

Origin: Possibly written in southern France (McKittrick) in the first half of the 15th century (watermark).

The text of Paris, BNF lat. 7138, ff. 109-110 is published in Ernest Wickersheimer, "Jehan Jacme (Johannes Jacobi) et les régimes de pestilence qui portent son nom," Archivio di storia della scienza 6 (1925), 105-112.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 2074.

OCLC:

1296528665

Online:

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