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Volume one is a fourteenth-century collection of medical recipes, likely written in Veneto, Italy. Volume two is a late 15th century collection of medical recipes, also likely written in Veneto, Italy. Each volume is bound individually in paper boards, and then the two volumes have been bound together.
Support: Mixed; Extent: iv+42+iv+61+iii; Volume one: 224 × 160 mm; volume two: 226 × 160 mm bound to 235 x 177 mm; Foliation: Volume one foliated i–iii, 1–19, 1–26, in postmedieval ink, except fols. i–iii, 1, 23–26 in modern pencil; volume two foliated i–ii, 1–64 in postmedieval ink, except 62–64 in modern pencil; Collation: Volume one: 1 (8), 2 (10), 3-5 (8); volume two: 1-4 (12), 5 (13, +13); Catchwords: Catchwords survive: Volume one: 9v, 8v, 16v; volume two: 12v, 24v, 36v, 48v, 60v
Volume one: Forty-two lines, ruled in pale plummet; written area: 173 × 121mm; volume two: Typically with twenty-seven to twenty-eight lines, frame-ruled in plummet; written area: 164 × 103 mm
Gothic--cursiva
In both volumes, rubrics in bright red, capitals stroked in red, paraphs in red, two-line spaces and guideletters left for coloured initials; small drawing of an alembic vessel on fol. 16r of volume one
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Volume one is parchment, volume two is paper
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Veneto?, Italy
Volume one: 14th century; volume two: third quarter of the 15th century; between 1450 and 1475
Two volumes bound together in three-quarter white cloth and plain vellum, preserving their former covers and flyleaves, the spine with a black leather titlepiece lettered in gilt capitals "Secreti / Medici // 13 th or 14 th century", and at the foot "C.M.P." (Coll. Med. Philad.); 10a. 132 is in a matching binding
Latin
The dialect suggests that Vol.I was written in the Veneto; parts I and II are apparently by the same scribe and presumably always formed a pair, but their distinct foliations suggests that they may once have been bound separately; Vol.I appears to be written in Venetian dialect, and Vol.II appears to be written on Venetian paper, so it seems likely that they both originate in the Veneto; nineteenth-century: bound as two volumes in matching bindings; Morris S. Wickersham (1815–1883) (cf. 10a. 132), who apparently received his M.D. in 1835, but whose occupation is recorded in Philadelphia City directories in 1861 as "stockbroker", and in 1865 as "gentleman"; he appears never to have been a Fellow of the College; College of Physicians: rebound as a single volume after acquisition by the College, but before the publication of de Ricci; with the College bookplate (upper pastedown) depicting a lamp on a pedestal above "Non sibi sed toti", enclosed within a belt bearing the legend "Ex libris Coll. Med. Philad. Instit. A.D. MCCLXXXVII", below which is printed "Class [space] No. [space] / Presented by [space]", the spaces filled-in by hand with "10a", "131" and "M. S. Wickersham, M.D.", respectively; the top right corner inscribed with the accession number "54851", corresponding to the (re) accession register, vol.8, for October 4, 1910; the former pastedown of Vol.I (now fol.iii verso) with the torn remains of an older variant of the College bookplate, with "Class" not printed, and "N o ." on a line by itself with superscript "o"
Veneto?, Italy
Volume one: 14th century; volume two: third quarter of the 15th century; between 1450 and 1475
Latin
The dialect suggests that Vol.I was written in the Veneto; parts I and II are apparently by the same scribe and presumably always formed a pair, but their distinct foliations suggests that they may once have been bound separately; Vol.I appears to be written in Venetian dialect, and Vol.II appears to be written on Venetian paper, so it seems likely that they both originate in the Veneto; nineteenth-century: bound as two volumes in matching bindings; Morris S. Wickersham depicting a lamp on a pedestal above "Non sibi sed toti", enclosed within a belt bearing the legend "Ex libris Coll. Med. Philad. Instit. A.D. MCCLXXXVII", below which is printed "Class [space] No. [space] / Presented by [space]", the spaces filled-in by hand with "10a", "131" and "M. S. Wickersham, M.D.", respectively; the top right corner inscribed with the accession number "54851", corresponding to the (re) accession register, vol.8, for October 4, 1910; the former pastedown of Vol.I (now fol.iii verso) with the torn remains of an older variant of the College bookplate, with "Class" not printed, and "N o ." on a line by itself with superscript "o" (provenance)
Volume one is a fourteenth-century collection of medical recipes, likely written in Veneto, Italy. Volume two is a late 15th century collection of medical recipes, also likely written in Veneto, Italy. Each volume is bound individually in paper boards, and then the two volumes have been bound together.
Volume one is parchment, volume two is paper
Gothic--cursiva
In both volumes, rubrics in bright red, capitals stroked in red, paraphs in red, two-line spaces and guideletters left for coloured initials; small drawing of an alembic vessel on fol. 16r of volume one
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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