Details

Subjects:

Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Medicine, Medieval.
Pigments -- Early works to 1800.
Plague -- Early works to 1800.
Plague.
Pigments.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Anthologies.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Middle High German, with some Latin.

Summary:

Medical compilation with a particular focus on the plague, but also including information on diseases of different parts of the body, urine, medicines, laxatives, water and wine, and the making of pigments for painting and inks for writing (f. 209r-215r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, 326; 1¹⁶(-1, front pastedown) 2¹²(-1) 3¹² 4¹⁶ 5²⁰ 6¹⁶ 7¹⁴ 8¹⁰ 9-13¹⁴ 14¹⁰ 15¹⁴ 16¹⁶ 17¹¹ 18-24¹² 25⁸(-1, back pastedown); [i-xiv, 1], 2-37, 36, 38-47, 45, 48, 47, 49-52, 44, 53-255, 260-280, [i], 281-305, [306-311], contemporary foliation in ink in 2 schemes, the older in red ink upper center recto, and later in black ink, upper right recto. References in this record are to the black foliation, unless only red foliation is present. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 21-25 long lines.
Script: Written in Gothic cursive script by multiple hands.
Decoration: Rubrication, underlining, and paragraph marks in red; initials touched with red.
Binding: Limp parchment, a leaf from a 15th-century liturgical manuscript; paper spine.
Origin: Written in Germany in the second half of the 15th century.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Ulricus Fugger, shelfmark XVIII K 9 (upper left, upper cover).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 23 June 1992, lot 67.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), Apr. 1993.
Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 26.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 92-93 (LJS 195).

Cited as:

LJS 195

Contributor:

Fugger, Ulricus, 1526-1584, former owner.
Stanitz, John D., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

818797047

Web link:

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

Collation model