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This manuscript contains a recipe collection with more than 520 different recipes on topics ranging from alchemy and medicine to solutions for simple household problems such as fleas, with an extensive alphabetical index.
Support: Paper; Extent: 101; 210 x 148 mm bound to 210 x 145 mm; Foliation: Contemporary foliation in ink, upper outer corner recto; inconsistent modern foliation in pencil; Collation: 1 (12, -10), 2-7 (12), 8 (12, -2 -10 -11 -12), 9 (12, -1 +1 -3 +10); Signatures: Some leaf and quire signatures outer corner verso with a letter designating the quire and an Arabic numeral the leaf; folios have been cut; Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords center lower margin
Two columns of thirty lines; ruled in ink with full-length single vertical bounding lines in hard point; written area: 148 x 109 mm
Humanistic
Each entry numbered in the margin in red Arabic numerals; red paragraph marks and red two-line initials throughout; sketches by later hand(s) on fols. 90v-94v, 101v-103v: on fol. 90v a crowned globe with an animal inside lettered "m" "s" at the top, and other drawings, apparently unfinished, related to this on fols. 102v-103r, fol. 92v, a figure with a long nose and hat, and a mounted figure in dots, fol. 102v, word square, fol. 103r, figure, labeled "madalena"
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.
Secreti naturali in ink on lower edge of book block. Fol. 94, A blank leaf from quire nine, is glued at the beginning. 2-90, 92-93, 95-103, Are the leaves present. wanting outermost bifolium of first quire, and five leaves from quire eight, three of which were likely blank.Quire i is missing leaves 1 and 10, with loss of text. Quire 8 is missing the 2nd leaf, after fol. 84, the 5th, after fol. 86, and leaves 10, 11, 12, [which were most likely cancelled blanks]
Worming and slight staining on some leaves
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.
Bergamo?, Milan?, Pavia?, Como?, Northwestern Italy
Probably before 22 December 1438
Contemporary red leather over wooden boards, cut flush with the book block, front and back covers decorated with nails, remains of large brass clasp decorated with foliage on back board
Latin
Belonged to Antonio "il gual"; his seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century ownership inscriptions on fols. 102v and 103v; owners' and dealers' notes, in pencil, fol. 103v, "cat. Tenschert, Leuct. Mittelalter I, no. 17, BPH 112," "10090/U6FET," inside back cover, "REE," "8409 BPH MS 112," and "W 12;" belonged to Joost R. Ritman (b. 1941), the Dutch businessman and collector of art and books; acquired from Tenschert cat. 21 (Leuchtendes Mittelalter I), 1989, no. 17; Bibliotheca Philosophia Hermetica MS 112 (bookplate, inside front cover); briefly described in Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections (Online Resources)
Bergamo?, Milan?, Pavia?, Como?, Northwestern Italy
Probably before 22 December 1438
Latin
Belonged to Antonio "il gual"; his seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century ownership inscriptions on fols. 102v and 103v; owners' and dealers' notes, in pencil, fol. 103v, "cat. Tenschert, Leuct. Mittelalter I, no. 17, BPH 112," "10090/U6FET," inside back cover, "REE," "8409 BPH MS 112," and "W 12;" belonged to Joost R. Ritman
This manuscript contains a recipe collection with more than 520 different recipes on topics ranging from alchemy and medicine to solutions for simple household problems such as fleas, with an extensive alphabetical index.
Secreti naturali in ink on lower edge of book block. Fol. 94, A blank leaf from quire nine, is glued at the beginning. 2-90, 92-93, 95-103, Are the leaves present. wanting outermost bifolium of first quire, and five leaves from quire eight, three of which were likely blank.Quire i is missing leaves 1 and 10, with loss of text. Quire 8 is missing the 2nd leaf, after fol. 84, the 5th, after fol. 86, and leaves 10, 11, 12, [which were most likely cancelled blanks]
Worming and slight staining on some leaves
Humanistic
Each entry numbered in the margin in red Arabic numerals; red paragraph marks and red two-line initials throughout; sketches by later hand(s) on fols. 90v-94v, 101v-103v: on fol. 90v a crowned globe with an animal inside lettered "m" "s" at the top, and other drawings, apparently unfinished, related to this on fols. 102v-103r, fol. 92v, a figure with a long nose and hat, and a mounted figure in dots, fol. 102v, word square, fol. 103r, figure, labeled "madalena"
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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