Therapeuticen specialis seu De morbis in particulari.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

Manuscripts, Latin -- 17th century.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Adam Weinberger (New York), 2024.

Physical Description:

208 leaves : paper ; 214 x 152 (155 x 90) mm bound to 220 x 160 mm + 1 note.

Other Title:

Therapeuticen specialis

De morbis in particulari

Spine title: Practica de morbis

Place of Publication:

[not before 1675]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Medical reference work written in the late 17th century, with citations of Galen and Avicenna (for example, f. 187v) but also 16th- and 17th-century physicians such as Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg, Wilhelm Fabry, Bartholinus (probably Caspar Bartholin the Elder), and Pierre Borel (f. 3r-3v), with the work of Friedrich Hoffmann being among the latest cited (f. 9v). The manuscript is divided into three books concerning the diseases of the upper (regio animalis, f. 1r-75r), middle (regio vitalis, f. 75r-120v), and lower (regio naturalis, f. 120v-207r) regions of the body. The diseases of the upper region include headache, vertigo, epilepsy, melancholy, mania, and catarrh; of the middle region, pneumonia, phthisis, asthma, and cough; and of the lower region, stomachache, heart pain, vomiting, lacking or excess appetite, cholera, dysentery, and colic. Each disease is described in sections under the headings Causae, Differentiae, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Curatio. Additional remedies are written by multiple hands on the pastedowns and endleaves; the endleaves are reinforced at the gutter with tape.

Contents:

1. f.1r-75r: Liber I, De morbis regionis animalis

2. f.75r-120v: Liber II, De morbis regionis vitalis

3. f.120v-207r: Liber III, De morbis regionis naturalis.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 1r).

Collation: Paper, 208 + i; 1-2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4-10⁸ 11⁴ 12⁸ 13⁴ 14-18⁸ 19¹⁴ 20-22⁸ 23¹⁰ 24-25⁸ 26⁶; [i, 1-207], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout: Written in 24-30 long lines; quarto format.

Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand, with book and chapter headings in square capitals.

Decoration: Penwork decoration on initial letters in manuscript title (f. 1r), penwork decoration also with grotesque faces on initial letters for internal book division titles (f. 75r, 120v).

Binding: Early limp vellum, spine title Practica de morbis in ink.

Origin: Written in or after 1675 (first publication of Hoffmann's Clavis pharmaceutica Schroederiana, cited f. 9v).

This manuscript matches Ms. Codex 2191 (Tractatus de morbis feminarum et infantium), University of Pennsylvania, in hand, page layout, and binding, but is a slightly different size..

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Therapeuticen specialis (Ms. Codex 2190). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1438775099

Online:

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