[Scientific miscellany].
- Publication:
- [Aberdeen?], 1644-1646.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
130 leaves : paper ; 183 x 144 (163 x 114) mm bound to 181 x 150 mm - Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
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- Subjects:
- Anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
Anatomy.
Body fluids -- Early works to 1800.
Diseases -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry.
Optics -- Early works to 1800.
Optics.
Diseases.
Body fluids. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European. - Language:
- Latin.
- Summary:
- Treatises on medicine, history, geometry, and optics.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r-18v: Brevio descriptio anatomica corporis humani, 1644.
2. f.19r-24r: De quatuor humoribus.
3. f.25r-39v: Perutiles quedam observationes ex libro i pathologice, 1645 / Johannes Fernelius.
4. f.40r-42v: De externis corporis affectibus.
5. f.60r-67r: Historia universalis syntagma ... in illustri accademia regia universitatis Abredonensis / Johannes Lundinus.
6. f.69r-107v: De mensuris.
7. f.111r-117r: Optica, 1646. - Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, 130; 1¹⁶( -2), 2-3¹⁶, 4⁸( -1), 5⁸, 6¹⁶, 7⁸, 8¹⁶, 9¹², 10⁸, 11¹²( -1), 12¹², 13¹²( -1), 14¹⁶( -1), 15-16⁸, 17⁸( -2), 18¹², 19¹⁶, 20¹²( -1), 21-22¹⁶, 23⁸( -1); [1-130]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Numerous geometrical diagrams (f. 70r to end).
Watermark: Pitcher with a tiara topped with a quatrefoil and crescent.
Binding: Contemporary parchment; several leaves loose or detached.
Origin: Written between 1644 and 1646, possibly in Aberdeen (f. 60r).
Incipit of first work: Corpus humanum potest dividi vel ratione finis vel ratione ... (f. 1r).
A page of densely layered notes (f. 129v) includes phrases in English and the dates 1609 and 1636; notes on another page (f. 130v) refer to Scotland. - Penn Provenance:
- Former owners include: Robert William Duff (bookplate, inside upper cover); Jane Clerk Duff, 1858 (signature, inside upper cover).
Sold by E. Weil, 1952. - 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), pp. 30-31 (Ms. Latin 133).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1043.
- Contributor:
- Fernel, Jean, 1497-1558.
Lundie, John, -1652?
Duff, Robert William, -1834, former owner.
Duff, Jane Clerk, former owner. - Contains:
- Brevis descriptio anatomica corporis humani.
De quatuor humoribus.
Perutiles quedam observationes ex libro pathologicae.
De externis corporis affectibus.
Historia universalis syntagma.
De mensuris.
Optica. - OCLC:
- 155930417
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