Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.206

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    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.206
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.206
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.206
    • Wellcome Library, MS.206
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
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  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 1 l. + 72 folios + 1 leave 4to. 201/2 x 141/2 cm. Original stamped leather binding over wooden boards, rebacked: two brass and leather clasps.

Notes

Data Source: Wellcome Collection - Online Collections

  • Conselio de'poveri infirmi. Followed by medical receipts by several hands: in Italian. Written in a semi-gothic hand, 26 lines to a page. Capitals and headings in red. The original foliation is incorrect after fol. 43, and the MS. has been refoliated from there in pencil. Fol. 1 (red) 1450. die 7 octubris. // Qui comenza la rubrica generale de questo libro / zoe le nome de le spiziarie capitolo I. 2 Per male de moroide e de ponde lviii. 2v (red) Le nome de le speziarie / ... 5, line 10 ... e tenia el areto ad /esere bona. / (red) Questo sie lo libro conselio de pouere infermi zoe lo prologo. / A lo nome de deo e de la sua madre ['uergine' inserted above by a later hand] madona / santa maria ... 5v, line 3 ... per che de bona fede e trato questo / da altri libri. / (red) iiii°. De li quatro humori de lomo. / ORa segniori voi douiti sauere ... 57v, line 19 ... venia si como mele e falo tuo onto. // A questo libro che se chiama conselio de poueri / sia fine. line 22-64 Miscellaneous medical receipts by the original, and other later hands: with some interpolated notes. 63 'La morta de. M. chatelina da / mapello matra de Johannes maria / fu del Mcccc o ady xiii al boto / de ore iiii° de zenare'. 64v 'Lano del 1550'. 65v 'Lano del Sanctissimo Jubileo del 1550 per / gratia de dio naque laura beatrice mia / filiola il giorno de la uigilia del / gloriosissimo caualiere e martiro santo / giorgio est ali 23 de aprille'. 66-70 Blank. 70v The date 1558, and some scribbled alphabets. 71 Two quotations from the New Testament, one in calligraphic script with a large ornamental letter D. 72 An inscription referring to a debt in a difficult script, dated 1500 and signed by Ieronimus de Crispis.
  • Purchased 1913.

Bibliography

  • On fol. 1 and on fol. 64, there is the signature of 'Ottaviano Archiatro', i.e. Ottaviano Buccarini, Papal Physician to Pope Gregory XIV [1535-1591], who became Pope in 1590 and died the next year.

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