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This manuscript is a compilation of remedies for various ills chiefly using wine, recipes for pills, for purifying metals, recipes and instructions for making colors for painting, enameling. The first half of the manuscript (fols. 1-32) is 15th century on parchment. Additional remedies in a 16th century hand, for inflamed testicles, menstrual distress, toothache, headache, leprosy, and recipes for birth control and various hair dyes. Folios 1-46 are parchment (1st gathering water-damaged); folios 47-61 are paper. Some marginalia, including multiple signatures of Dom[ina] Maria Barbani di Corticelle, one dated Oct. 1506.
Support: Parchment; Extent: 127 x 90 mm bound to 135 x 103 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation, pencil, post hoc; Collation: 1-5 (8), 6 (6), 7 (16), 8 (5, +1)
Two columns of twenty-four lines each (fols. 1-32); ruled lightly; written area: 88 x 67 mm
Gothic
Colored initials through fol. 32
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Accompanied by a dealer's description in German
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 and 16th centuries
Parchment binding, one tie remaining.
Italian
Dom(ina) Maria Barbani di Corticelli; 1506
Italy
15th and 16th centuries
Italian
Dom
This manuscript is a compilation of remedies for various ills chiefly using wine, recipes for pills, for purifying metals, recipes and instructions for making colors for painting, enameling. The first half of the manuscript (fols. 1-32) is 15th century on parchment. Additional remedies in a 16th century hand, for inflamed testicles, menstrual distress, toothache, headache, leprosy, and recipes for birth control and various hair dyes. Folios 1-46 are parchment (1st gathering water-damaged); folios 47-61 are paper. Some marginalia, including multiple signatures of Dom[ina] Maria Barbani di Corticelle, one dated Oct. 1506.
Accompanied by a dealer's description in German
Gothic
Colored initials through fol. 32
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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