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This is a manuscript of Nicholas of Salerno's Antidotarium, a twelfth century book of medicinal recipes, dating from the last quarter of the fourteenth century, most likely from England. Likely provenance includes the Hale family of Alderley, based on the bookplate on fol. 33v. It appears to be in its original parchment binding.
Support: Parchment; Extent: 55; 188 x 140 mm bound to 208 x 138 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1-5 (8), 6 (8, -8), 7 (8); Signatures: Quire and leaf signatures in lower right corner, recto; Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords in lower left margin, verso, except for first and sixth quire
Single column, twenty-four ruled lines with single vertical and upper horizontal bounding lines and double lower horizontal bounding lines, full across in ink; prickings visible in all three outer margins
Gothic--textualis quadrata
Three- or four-line initials with red penwork flourishes marking text divisions; smaller two-line initials and paragraph markers in red throughout
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.
Previously Goodhart 91
Marginal notations in the same hand throughout
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.
England?
Last quarter 14th century
Original parchment binding, single sheet folded at top and bottom and sewn with thread, outside of spine reinforced with leather strip sewn to parchment
Latin
The text is attributed to Nicholas of Salerno (Nicolaus Salernitanus), an Italian physician, and was composed in the first half of the twelfth century; this copy probably written in England, in the last quarter of the fourteenth century; early provenance unknown; on fol. 33v, bookplate of "Hale of Alderly," Gloucester, England, dated '41; purchased from Maggs (typed description on detached sheet accompanies text) in 1949 by Howard L. Goodhart, and presented by him to Bryn Mawr College in 1951
England?
Last quarter 14th century
Latin
The text is attributed to Nicholas of Salerno
This is a manuscript of Nicholas of Salerno's Antidotarium, a twelfth century book of medicinal recipes, dating from the last quarter of the fourteenth century, most likely from England. Likely provenance includes the Hale family of Alderley, based on the bookplate on fol. 33v. It appears to be in its original parchment binding.
Previously Goodhart 91
Marginal notations in the same hand throughout
Gothic--textualis quadrata
Three- or four-line initials with red penwork flourishes marking text divisions; smaller two-line initials and paragraph markers in red throughout
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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