Details

Standardized Title:

De secretis mulierum.

Other Title:

Secreta mulierum et virorum

Subjects:

Medicine, Medieval.
Gynecology -- Early works to 1800.
Gynecology.
Human reproduction -- Early works to 1800.
Women -- Health and hygiene -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Women -- Health and hygiene.
Human reproduction.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

A copy of De secretis mulierum (also known as Secreta mulierum), a work frequently but erroneously attributed to Albertus Magnus since the late 13th century, with an unidentified commentary. Covers various issues of women's health. Some marginalia, cut off by page trimming. The first folio contains several other brief works.

Contents:

1. f.1r-1v: De coitu.
2. f.1v: Artes mulierum.
3. f.1v: De meretrice.
4. f.2r-54r: De secretis mulierum.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from f. 54r.
Foliation: Paper, i + 54 + i; [1-54]; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script.
Decoration: 2-line to 8-line red initials throughout; capitals touched in red.
Binding: Modern cloth.
Origin: Written in Germany in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Robert Vivien (Paris), 1962.

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. 42 (Ms. Latin 180).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1136

Contributor:

Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.

Contains:

De coitu.
Artes mulierum.
De meretrice.

OCLC:

212623480