[De urinarum judiciis]

Description
Manuscript copy of a printed edition of Montagnana's work on the analysis of urine in diagnosing disease; text includes variants not in the first edition of 1487 but found in an edition published ca. 1500. A few marginal notes and some underlining on the first (f. 1r-5r) and last (f. 72v-78v) leaves.
Creator
Montagnana, Bartolomeo, active 1422-1460
Form
manuscripts (documents)
codices (bound manuscripts)
treatises
Manuscripts, Latin
Manuscripts, Renaissance
Date
1500
Language
Latin
Subject
Medicine -- Early works to 1800
Medicine
Urine -- Analysis -- Early works to 1800
Urine -- Analysis
Collection
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Extent
78 leaves : paper ; 150 x 96 (94 x 55) mm bound to 156 x 107 mm
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 78 + i (modern paper); 1⁸ 2¹⁰ 3⁶ 4¹⁰ 5⁶ 6-9⁸ 10⁸(-2); modern foliation in pencil every eighth leaf, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 20-22 long lines.
Script: Written in Gothic cursive script with chapter and section headings in a more calligraphic Gothic script.
Binding: Modern limp parchment.
Origin: Possibly written in France, after 1500.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
Latin.
Related works
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-p30k5r
Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs430.html
Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000322
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 430
Provenance
Formerly owned by Victor A. Schwarz (bookplate inside upper cover).
Sold by Sokol Books Ltd. (London), cat. 40 (2002), no. 88, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
Schwarz, Victor, former owner.
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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