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Medical-pharmaceutical miscellany 10a 132
Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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Abstract

A collection of excerpts from various medical texts available to a sixteenth-century physician. This particular manuscript was probably organized and commissioned by an Italian physician. The book was never finished, as some of the pages have line drawings for illuminations that were never colored in. Of note in this book is the "Venereal Man" featured in a selection from De Apostematibus by Bertapalia. This specific section of the text refers to medical issues such as scrofulis ruptis (ruptured scrotum). It is unclear what Venereal Man's medical issue is precisely, however, he appears to have been circumcised, an uncommon practice in sixteenth-century Italy.

Physical Description

Support: Paper; Extent: iv+117+iii; 202 x 138 mm bound to 207 x 150 mm; Foliation: Paginated in contemporary brown ink in upper right-hand corner; flyleaves paginated in modern pencil in upper right-hand corner (i-iv and 118-120); fols. 46-69 missing; Collation: Uncertain. Appears to be sections by different scribes bound together (fols. 1-6, fols. 7-45, and fols. 70-117) (there are no fols. 46-69)

Layout

One column; ruled in ink in lines of twenty-four to thirty-one; written area: 170x121mm

Script

Humanistic

Decoration

Incipits and chapters in red; paraphs in alternating red, green, or blue; scatter border p.1; several large decorative initials with gilding; Six inhabited initials, some unfinished; floral flourishes; Five unfinished miniatures; some initials and flourishes are line drawings only; line drawing of a nude male figure, a sketch of a human face, and a saint

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.

Notes

In three or more hands

Oval tear on p.19 about halfway down the page near the gutter

Water stains from the top of the page to about 4/5 of the way down, beginning at p. 75 through p. 117

Fol.76 in cipher

Slightly cropped, with some loss of decoration on tops of pages

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.

Spine

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Keywords
Damage
Miscellany
16th century
Italy
Italian
Science
Science -- Medicine
Paper
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians o

Place of Origin

Italy

Date

Circa 1550

Binding

Bound in three-quarter white cloth and plain vellum, the spine with a black leather title-piece lettered in gilt capitals "Prohemium / Puntus / Huius / Operis // Circa 1545", and at the foot "C.M.P." (Coll. Med. Philad.); 10a 131 is in a matching binding

Language

Latin

Provenance

"1548" written in a contemporary hand on the top of fol. 110r; Morris S. Wickersham (1815–1883) (cf. 10a. 131), 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; 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", "132" and "M. S. Wickersham, M.D.", respectively; the top left corner inscribed with the accession number "54849", corresponding to the (re) accession register, vol.8, for October 4, 1910.

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Place of Origin

Italy

Date

Circa 1550

Language

Latin

Provenance

"1548" written in a contemporary hand on the top of fol. 110r; 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", "132" and "M. S. Wickersham, M.D.", respectively; the top left corner inscribed with the accession number "54849", corresponding to the (re) accession register, vol.8, for October 4, 1910. (provenance)

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

A collection of excerpts from various medical texts available to a sixteenth-century physician. This particular manuscript was probably organized and commissioned by an Italian physician. The book was never finished, as some of the pages have line drawings for illuminations that were never colored in. Of note in this book is the "Venereal Man" featured in a selection from De Apostematibus by Bertapalia. This specific section of the text refers to medical issues such as scrofulis ruptis (ruptured scrotum). It is unclear what Venereal Man's medical issue is precisely, however, he appears to have been circumcised, an uncommon practice in sixteenth-century Italy.

Notes

In three or more hands

Oval tear on p.19 about halfway down the page near the gutter

Water stains from the top of the page to about 4/5 of the way down, beginning at p. 75 through p. 117

Fol.76 in cipher

Slightly cropped, with some loss of decoration on tops of pages

Script note

Humanistic

Decoration Note

Incipits and chapters in red; paraphs in alternating red, green, or blue; scatter border p.1; several large decorative initials with gilding; Six inhabited initials, some unfinished; floral flourishes; Five unfinished miniatures; some initials and flourishes are line drawings only; line drawing of a nude male figure, a sketch of a human face, and a saint

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.

References
Binding Images

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.

Spine

Fore edge

Top edge

Bottom edge

Keywords
Damage
Miscellany
16th century
Italy
Italian
Science
Science -- Medicine
Paper
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians o
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