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This manuscript is a fifteenth-century copy of Johannes de Rupescissa's De consideratione quintae essentiae rerum omnium. It was written in Italy in Gothic rotunda script in a single column on parchment with alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. The first leaf of the preface is missing and the following four leaves (fols. 1-4) are badly rubbed, affecting text. Rupescissa's work is divided into two books, with the second comprising twenty numbered remedies. The final leaves of the volume contain a selection from Michele Savonarola's De arte conficiendi aquam vitae (fols. 50r-51r) and an unattributed remedy for catarrh titled Remedium notabile contra passionem Catharri (fol. 51r-51v). Corrections contemporary to the text are in the margins, as are notes by a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century reader marking correspondences to a printed edition of the text and sections of the manuscript not present in that printed edition.
Support: Parchment; Extent: i+52+i; 165 x 120 mm bound to 168 x 125 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1 (9, +9), 2-5 (10), 6 (3, +1); Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords lower center last verso, quires 1-5 (fols. 9v, 19v, 29v, 39v, 49v)
Written in one column of twenty-seven lines; ruled in lead or faint ink, left vertical bounding line occasionally visible; written area: 110 x 75 mm
Gothic--rotunda
Later large (six lines) illuminated initial with marginal extension of acanthus leaves (fol. 5v); marginal drawing of amphora-like vessel (fol. 10); initials of two to four lines alternating between red with brown (text ink) penwork and blue with red penwork throughout; paragraph marks alternating between red and blue throughout; rubrication in red
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.
Modern paper flyleaves
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.
Italy
15th century
Modern cloth
Latin
Formerly held in the Biblioteca communale of Savignano di Romagna, before 1890; purchased by the University of Delaware, 1968
Italy
15th century
Latin
Formerly held in the Biblioteca communale of Savignano di Romagna, before 1890; purchased by the University of Delaware, 1968
This manuscript is a fifteenth-century copy of Johannes de Rupescissa's De consideratione quintae essentiae rerum omnium. It was written in Italy in Gothic rotunda script in a single column on parchment with alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. The first leaf of the preface is missing and the following four leaves (fols. 1-4) are badly rubbed, affecting text. Rupescissa's work is divided into two books, with the second comprising twenty numbered remedies. The final leaves of the volume contain a selection from Michele Savonarola's De arte conficiendi aquam vitae (fols. 50r-51r) and an unattributed remedy for catarrh titled Remedium notabile contra passionem Catharri (fol. 51r-51v). Corrections contemporary to the text are in the margins, as are notes by a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century reader marking correspondences to a printed edition of the text and sections of the manuscript not present in that printed edition.
Modern paper flyleaves
Gothic--rotunda
Later large (six lines) illuminated initial with marginal extension of acanthus leaves (fol. 5v); marginal drawing of amphora-like vessel (fol. 10); initials of two to four lines alternating between red with brown (text ink) penwork and blue with red penwork throughout; paragraph marks alternating between red and blue throughout; rubrication in red
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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