Details

Other Title:

Theriaca Democrate ex Galeni.
Oleum de Mattioli.
Electuarium diatartari.
Laudan liquido.
Polipodia stomatica.
Syrupus Terebinti Malpichi.

Subjects:

Chemistry -- History.
Chemistry.
History.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Medicine -- History.
Medicine.
Pharmacology -- Early works to 1800.
Pharmacology.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Prescriptions.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Contains descriptions of 84 pharmaceutical prescriptions. Additions in different contemporary or near-contemporary hands include: "oleum de Mattioli," "electuarium diatartari," "laudan liquido," "polipodia" stomatica," "syrupus Terebinti Malpichi," and others. This manuscript has the appearance of an official pharmacopaea of a hospital, possibly Sancta Sanctorum in S. Giovanni al Laterano in Rome (Zacour-Hirsch). Includes notations by physicians dating from 1693 to 1768, among them: Johannes Tirillius (or Triellius ; 1693, f. 9r); Lucas Thomasinus (1740, f. 9r); Vinc. Ant. Gattucius (1710, f. 10v); Jacobus Sinibaldus (i.e., Giacomo Sinibaldi; 1695, f. 11v); Hieronymus Caruccius (1753, f. 14v); Ant. Gabrielli (1703, f. 16v); Paulus Manfredus; and many others. Most signatures appear after the note, "Vidi et approbavi."

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Incipit and explicit (f. 2r) Theriaca Democrate ex Galeni ... (f. 91r) vel sii acetosi q. s. f massa.
No signatures. Some catchwords, lower right corner of some versos (not necessarily at end of quire).
Collation:
Collation: Paper, 91; 1⁴, 2⁴(+2), 3⁴, 4⁸, 5-6⁴, 7⁴(+2) , 8⁴, 9², 10⁴, 11⁸, 12⁴(+2), 13⁶, 14⁶[+2], 15², 16²(+2), 17², 18⁶(+2), 19²; [1-91]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Irregular contemporary foliation and pagination in ink, upper outer corners. References in this record are to modern foliation.
Script: Written in a formal book script, with additions and comments in a cursive script.
Decoration: Elaborate pen-and-ink title page, with red and green highlighting (f. 1r). The folio between f. 27-28 lacks the ink border that all the other folios have.
Watermark: Initial E.
Binding: 17th-century Italian limp parchment over pasteboard. Cover badly deteriorated; split at edges, peeling away from pasteboard; pulling away from book block at spine; large piece missing from bottom of lower cover. There is a great deal of writing and doodling on the outside covers. Stains of various types; some oxidation of ink.
Origin: Written in Italy, 1693 (title page, f. 1r).

Penn Provenance:

Provenance: V. Berrelli, 18th century (signature, inside upper cover); illegible ex libris stamp, inside upper cover; Bernard M. Rosenthal Catalogue XV, p. 13 (no. 31) (description clipped from Catalogue on file in the Library).
Acquired, 1967.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 : Supplement A (5). The Library Chronicle 37 (1971), p. 105 (Ms. E.F. Smith 54).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 132

Contributor:

Sinibaldi, Giacomo, 1630-1704.
Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano.

OCLC:

155962638