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Receptarium bonitatis.
- Author(s):
- Hermes, TrismegistusSecreta
- Saladino Ferro, active 1448Compendium aromatariorum
- Nicolaus, Salernitanusactive 12th centuryQuid pro quo
- Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, -1013?Taṣrīf li-man ʻajiza ʻan al-taʼlīf Latin
- Montagnana, Bartolomeo, active 1422-1460Antidotarium
- Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295De virtutibus aque vite
- Arnaldus, de Villanova-1311Epistula de sanguine humano
- Bruno, da Longoburgoapproximately 1200-1286Chirurgia parva
- National Library of Medicine, Manuscript MS E 74
- Title(s):
- Receptarium bonitatis.
- Other Title(s):
- [Collection of medical, alchemical, astrological, and other works].
- Country of Publication:
- Italy
- Publisher:
- [1458?]
- Description:
- 301 leaves : Paper ; 220 x 170 (160 x 100) mm.
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Language:
- Latin, Italian
- In:
- Faye & Bond p. 145, no. 74.
Thorndike & Kibre (1963) col. 1105, 1112, 1677, 1241, 842.
- MeSH:
- Alchemy
Astrology
Materia Medica
Medicine
Syphilis
- Publication Type(s):
- Manuscript
- Notes:
- Manuscript codex.
A collection of texts on medical, alchemical, astrological, etc. subjects, probably abstracted from larger works, and recipes for medicinal and alchemical substances.
Text in Latin; Fol. 1-17, 24-27, 166-186 (later additions) in Italian.
Title from label on back cover.
Earlier title from Faye & Bond.
Several treatises or parts of treatises identified in Faye & Bond and bookdealer's description: Nicolaus, Salernitanus. Quid pro quo (fol. 2r-4v); Saladino Ferro. Compendium aromatariorum, and Abulcasis. Liber servitoris (fol. 4v-9r); Bartolomeo Montagnana. Antidotarium (fol. 11r-13r); Hermes. Secreta, or De salibus et corporibus (fol. 36r-39r); Thaddeo Alderotti. De virtutibus aque vite (fol. 159v); Arnaldus, de Villanova. Epistula de sanguine humano (fol. 162v-164r); Bruno, de Longoburgo. Chirurgia minor (fol. 225r-265v); Hippocrates (?). Astrological medicine (fol. 183v).
Fol. 175r: Ad morbum gallicum remediu[m]. Fol. 175r-184v contain recipes with which to treat syphilis.
A leaf with recipes pasted to the front pastedown.
Collation: Paper; i + 301 + i; [fol. 1-35: not determined] 1-1310 148(?) 1516(-1,2; 16+1) (?) 16-2110 228 23-2610 276(−6); vertical catch words at end of gatherings; leaf signatures a-z (quires 1-14, 16-24), quires 24-25 signed 7 and 9 respectively.
Modern foliation: 1-301. Several early foliations: 61-138 (modern 96-173, 187-300) in red ink, crossed out; 199-309 (modern 186-299), partially erased; 1-299 (modern 4-301) with several pages skipped in numbering. The last numbering includes the later additions to the volume.
Fol. 1-35 have watermark: 3M; fol. 36-173, 187-301 have watermark similar to Briquet 6597, 6599, 6602.
Paper and hand of fol. 1-35 differ from the main text. Many of the leaves appear to be single folios attached to stubs; sewing visible between fols. 3/4, 5/6, 10/11, 23/24, 33/34.
Paper, hand, and format of fol. 174-186 differ from the main text. This section and fol. 1-35 are late 15th or early 16th c. additions, based on script and reference to syphilis.
Structure of fols. 166-188 (quires 14 and 15) is problematic. Catchwords lacking; sewing cannot be seen because of tight binding. Fols. 166 and 170 (1st and 5th leaves of quire 14) signed "o." Two stubs, not counted in foliation, between fol. 173/174. Fols. 186-188 attached to stubs. Text beginning on fol. 173 below main text to fol. 186 are in different hands from the main text; original hand resumes at fol. 187. Foliation in red skips fols. 174-186 (138=modern 173, 139=modern 187).
Layout: Paper; 34 long lines (fol. 177v-186r in 2 columns); plain ruled.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive book hand (littera humanistica cursiva libraria).
Decoration: 2-line initials alternating red and blue throughout, a few 3-line, and 4-line initial on fol. 255r.
Origin: Written in Italy in 1458: Et su[n]t f[inis?] Ame[n], 1458.( fol. 300r). Fols. 1-35, 174-186 are late 15th or early 16th cent.
Item catalogued from existing description: Faye & Bond; and in hand by National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, 11/2006.
NLM microfilm copy shelved as: Film 58-27 no. 4
Microfilm. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm.
- Cite As:
- Bethesda, MD, National Library of Medicine, MS E 74.
- Provenance:
- Provenance: no. 89 in clipping from unidentified (probably British) book dealer's catalogue pasted to front pastedown. Shelf nos.(?): 40 within triangle; No. 5040; h(?) 3030; 3144 EOS. Faye & Bond cite "Nos. 223 and 8.7 in early libraries," but not located in volume. Probably purchased by NLM after 1950, i.e. not in Schullian.
- Contents:
- Contents: Fol. 1r: recipes; fol. 1v: blank; fol. 2r-4v: rubr.: "Incipit tractatus quid pro quo; [fol. 4v-9r: rubr.] De interogationibus fiendis p[er] medicum an aromatarius sit sufitiens nec non ... [TK 1105]; [fol. 9v-10v: blank]; [fol. 11r-13r: rubr.] Incipit liber de venenis; [fol. 21r-23v: blank]; [fol. 24r: rubr.] Incipit liber pro crepatis; [fol. 28r-35v: index]; [fol. 36r-39r: text] Primo enim sciendum est q[ui] septem sunt planete ...[TK1112]; [fol. 39r: text] Queritur utru[m] unu[m] metallu[m] possit venire i[n] aliud per artem ... [TK 1677]; [40v-116r: misc. recipes]; [116v-117r: text] Quid e[st] medicina? medicina est ars operativa in qua queritur conservatio sanitatis ... [TK1241]; [fol. 117v-159r: misc. recipes]; [fol. 159v: text] Hic sunt v[ir]tut[e]s aque vite; [fol. 162v-164r: text] Magister Jacobe amice carissime dudum me rogatis ut vobis secretum meum de sanguine humano ... [TK 842]; [fol. 173r-185v: misc. recipes]; [fol. 185v-186v: blank]; [fol. 187v-254v: misc. recipes]; [fol. 255r: text] Ut de op[er]atione mamalium(?) librum .."; [fol. 255r-300v: misc. recipes and astrological texts]; [fol. 300v-301r: index and recipes]
- Other ID:
- (OCoLC)82194221
- NLM ID:
- 100957838 [Manuscript]