Thesaurus pauperum ... [etc.]
- Description
- Medical miscellany with almost the first half of the volume devoted to a copy of Thesaurus pauperum, a compilation of remedies for a variety of diseases frequently attributed to Petrus Hispanus, later Pope John XXI. The remainder includes a work by Arnaldus de Villanova, a partial copy of a work by Johannes de Rupescissa, a work attributed to Ramon Llull, and several other unattributed collections of remedies. Lists of multiple names, perhaps of teachers or students, many associated with locations in northern Italy, added by a few hands (f. 165r-167r, 265r-266r).
- Creator
- John XXI, Pope, -1277 (attributed name)
- Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316 (attributed name)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- diagrams
- drawings (visual works)
- prescriptions
- recipes
- Manuscripts, Latin
- Manuscripts, Italian
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Date
- 1450
- Language
- Latin
- Subject
- Medicine -- Early works to 1800
- Medicine
- Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800
- Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Collection
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 233 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 147 x 104 (92-95 x 66-69) mm bound to 147 x 118 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title for manuscript from explicit for predominant work (f. 101r).
- Table of contents: 1. f.1r-100v: Thesaurus pauperum [often attributed elsewhere to Petrus Hispanus, later Pope John XXI; Thorndike-Kibre 698, 1132)]
- Table of contents: 2. f.101r-138v: Medicina mirabilis et secreta.
- Table of contents: 3. f.149r-163r: Liber computi de festis anni.
- Table of contents: 4. f.163v-167v: [Poems, pen trials, names of teachers and others, drawings]
- Table of contents: 5. f.173r-213v: Liber de consideratione 5 essentiae omnium rerum / [Johannes de Rupescissa; beginning lacking]
- Table of contents: 6. f.213v-223v: Ars operativa / Magistri Raymundi [attributed in manuscript to Ramon Llull; Thorndike-Kibre 296]
- Table of contents: 7. f.223v-233v: [Medical recipes]
- Table of contents: 8. f.233v- 236r: [Medical recipes] / eddite a fratre Andrea Portugallensi.
- Table of contents: 9. f.236r-247r: Tractatus utilissimus de proprietatibus aque vite / editus per Magistrum Arnaldum de villa nova [Thorndike-Kibre 645]
- Table of contents: 10. f.247r-263v: [Medical recipes in Latin and Italian]
- Table of contents: 11. f.265r-266v: [Notes, names of men and women]
- Table of contents: 12. f.267r-272r: [Pharmacological treatise in Italian]
- Table of contents: 13. f.272r-278r: [Medical recipes in Latin and Italian]
- Collation: Paper, 233 + i (11th-century parchment); 1¹⁰(-2) 2-11¹⁰ 12¹⁰(-2) 13¹⁰(-8) 14¹⁰(-4) 15¹²(-5) 16-21¹⁰ 22¹² 23¹²(-3) 24¹⁰(-1) 25¹²; early foliation in ink, [1], 2-8, 11-69, 80-89, 100-138, 149-151, 154-157, 160-167, 173-212, 113, 214-247, 251-263, 265-278 (f. 9-10, 139-148, 152-153, 158-159, 168-172 torn out), upper right recto. Catchwords on the last verso of gatherings 2-11, 13-14, 16-23 (f. 20v, 30v, 40v, 50v, 60v, 80v, 100v, 110v, 120v, 130v, 150v, 160v, 182v, 192v, 202v, 212v, 222v, 232v, 244v, 256v); at least one gathering may be missing after a dangling catchword on gathering 21 (f. 232v). References in this record are to foliation as it appears in the manuscript. Link to collation model at end of record.
- Layout: Written in 31-35 long lines; some pages frame-ruled in lead.
- Script: Written in Gothic cursive script by at least 3 hands.
- Decoration: Diagram of chemical apparatus in text (f. 260r); rough drawings in ink of faces (f. 167v); spaces left for 2-line and 3-line initials, with guide letters
- Binding: Original (15th-century) parchment with 5 metal bosses on each cover and remnants of a clasp; title Thesaurus pauperum partially visible on the upper cover in ink; attachment of covers to spine and binding to manuscript very fragile. Back flyleaf and pastedown are formed from a fragment from a mid-11th-century German homiliary; the text is from Pope Leo I's Sermon 42, on Quadragesima.
- Origin: Written in northern Italy in the second half of the 15th century.
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Latin, with one section (f. 267r-272r) and some recipes, notes, and names in Italian.
- Related Work: Johannes, de Rupescissa, approximately 1300-approximately 1365. Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum.
- Related Work: Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311. Tractatus de proprietatibus aque vite.
- Related works
- Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/2025255
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3wk8z
- Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs236.html
- Collation model: http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/3
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 236
- Provenance
- Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 1997.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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