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[Ricettario].

Author/Creator:
Giovanni, da Nola, approximately 1488-1558.
Publication:
[Italy], [1530?]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
29 leaves : paper ; 147 x 110 (110 x 80) mm bound to 151 x 113 mm
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Chemistry -- History.
Chemistry.
History.
Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
Materia medica.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Pharmacognosy.
Pharmacy -- Early works to 1800.
Pharmacy.
Form/Genre:
Hymnals.
Recipes.
Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Italian and Latin.
Summary:
Collection of remedies against a great variety of ills, sometimes indicating the source of the information. Begins imperfectly. Several sources are indicated: Alcuin (p. 3); Conte De'Altavilla (p. 12); Conte de Urbino (p. 17); Raynaldo de Villanova (p. 22); and Duca de Calabria (pp. 48, 50). The last two recipes are slightly later additions (p. 62).
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title and attribution supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch); p. 61 attributes it to Johannes de Nola. This might be the 16th-century writer Giovanni Andrea Nola.
Collation: Paper, 29; 1³⁰(-1); 3-40, 43-62; contemporary pagination in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand; scribe was named Bernardinus (p. 61).
Decoration: Red used for headings.
Binding: bound in a parchment manuscript fragment of an unnoted hymnal, German, mid 13th century (includes St. Elizabeth of Hungary, canonized in 1235). Binding work appears to be contemporary with the manuscripts.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1530 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Badly stained in upper inner corner of each page; this stain has caused some text on each page to become faded or obliterated. Possible mildew damage on upper inner edge of parchment cover. Dealer's description suggests this might be due to a chemical spilled on the manuscript by an alchemist.
Short dealer's description in Italian on file in the Library; probably from Olschki catalogue, 9/26/1957.
Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
Penn Provenance:
Leo S. Olschki (Florence): bookseller's bookplate inner front cover, inv. no. 47428, appears in catalog 54 (26 Sept. 1957), no. 5; old shelf number (16) on front cover.
Acquired, 1957.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 233 (Ms. E. F. Smith 9).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 115
Contributor:
Bernardinus, scribe.
OCLC:
155962552