Details

Subjects:

Charles VIII, King of France, 1470-1498.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin.
France -- Foreign relations -- Italy.
France.
International relations.
Italy.
Italy -- Foreign relations -- France.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Speeches.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

A miscellany of speeches and medicinal recipes (including one for protection from the plague, f. 12r), half being devoted to the (fictitious, according to Zacour-Hirsch) speeches of the envoys of Charles VIII of France to representatives of various Italian states, with their responses.

Contents:

1. f.1-6v: Orationes legatorum Caroli VIII, regis Francorum.
2. f.6v-7v: Oratio pro recommendatione rectoris Gregorii Meninge / Martini Mellerstadt.
3. f.8r-11v: Recepte super nono Almansoris / Magistri Petri Tusignano.
4. f.7v, 11v, 12r-v: Recipes.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption heading (f. 1r).
Incipit (1st work): Orationes legatorum ad Venetos Caroli Francorum regis oratoribus Anno 1495 die quinto Aprilis.
Incipit (2nd work): Oratio Doctoris Martini Mellerstadt pro recommendatione Rectoris Gregorii Meninge Anno 1500 primo Maii.
Incipit (3rd work): Incipiunt recepte magistri Petri Tusignano super nono Almansoris.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 12 + i (modern paper); [1-12]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in cursive document script by at least three hands.
Decoration: Red used for titles and underlining in first two works. Red used for capital strokes in first work, with additional marks in green (f. 4v, 5r).
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Leipzig, 1500-1510 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Ernst Schulz (Zacour-Hirsch).
Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1952.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 11 (Ms. Latin 52).
A variant of the third work is described in Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (Leipzig: Hierseman, 1925), entry 271

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 842

Contributor:

Schulz, Ernst, former owner.

Contains:

Pollich, Martin, approximately 1455-1513.
Tossignano, Pietro da, -1401.
Oratio pro recommendatione rectoris Gregorii Meninge.
Recepte super nono Almansoris.

OCLC:

223403436