Details

Subjects:

Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
Materia medica.
Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
Botany, Medical.
Botany -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800.
Botany.
Morocco -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Morocco.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Herbals (reference sources)
Pen and wash drawings.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, European.
Pictorial works.
Illustrated works.

Language:

Plant names in Latin, with a few words in Italian (f. 2r-53v); texts about Morocco in English, Spanish, and Latin (54r-97v); glossary of words in Arabic, Spanish, and Latin (f. 98r-101r).

Summary:

Italian illustrated herbal, with a group of texts in English, Latin, and Spanish about Morocco added less than a century later.

Contents:

1. f.1r: Dictionarium arabicum, Numerorum nomina.
2. f.1v: [Botanical sketches in ink]
3. f.2r-53v: Herbal.
4. f.54r-70r: [Notes on the plants of Morocco and their uses]
5. f.72r-v: [Names of cities, towns and mountains in the provinces of Fez, Tremecen, and Tunis]
6. f.73r-78v: Reyno de maruecos / P. Marmol.
7. f.82r-86r: The regid of Morocus [Spanish with English title]
8. f.87r-88r: The regid of Morocus [English]
9. f.89r-90r: The citty of Morocus, Customes of the citty of Morocus.
10. f.90v-91r: Customes, estates, and offices of the court of Mulley Hamed [Muley Muhamed, d. 1603]
11. f.92r-97r: The towne of Altamimay.
12. f.97v: [Index to the notes on the plants of Morocco]
13. f.98r-101r: Nomina substantiva [glossary in Latin, Spanish, and Arabic]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Collation: Paper, ii + 102 + ii; 1¹ 2²⁸ 3²⁴ 4⁴⁴ 5⁸; [1-53], 1-17 [=54-70], [71-102]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Script: Written in italic script, by at least two hands (f. 2-53, and f. 1, 54-101).
Decoration: 110 colored wash drawings of plants with roots and flowers (f. 2-53).
Binding: Parchment contemporary with later texts, gilt, with stamp of eagle and child on covers; remnants of 2 pairs of green silk ties; title (Herbal) written on spine in ink.
Origin: Herbal illustrated in Italy, ca. 1520 (f. 2r-53v); texts on Morocco written in England, ca. 1600 (f. 1r-v, 54r-101r).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Latham family of Lancashire (crest of eagle and child on covers) and by Thomas and Edward Syddell (16th-century inscription, f. 1r).
Sold at auction at Bonhams, Dec. 1995.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1996.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle in honor of Lynn Ransom, Project Manager, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, 2012.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 106 (LJS 46).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 46

Contributor:

Syddell, Thomas, former owner.
Syddell, Edward, former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

779349249

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page

Collation model