Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.346

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  • Autre forme de la cote :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.346
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.346
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.346
    • Wellcome Library, MS.346
  • Conservé à : Londres. Wellcome Library
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  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 1 l. + 27 folios 4to. 19 x 13 cm. 17th cent. boards.

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  • Fragment of a MS. copy of the Herbarius printed at Vicenza in 1491 containing 27 illustrations only (out of 150). With signature and holograph notes in red ink by Johann Reuchlin [1455-1522]. The illustrations of plants are in water-colour. Reuchlin's signature is on fol. 1 'Joannes Reuchlin phorani [Pforzheim]. L.L.Doctor'. He is probably also the writer of the title 'Herbolarium de Virtutibus herb[arum]', which appears in red, on the first unfoliated leaf. On fol. 26 is the date 1556 in an Italian hand, and over the title 'Herbolarium etc' [Ad] usum D. Alberti Tephaia [?] doctoris die 7 februarii M.DC.XXX'. His monogram 'AT' is found on fol. 2. Inside the upper cover a 17th cent. Italian owner has written 'Questo erbario ha servito alla impressione dell' opera del Villanova di Vicenza del 1491'. The illustrations and text of this MS. have been carefully compared with the Wellcome Library copy of the 'Herbarius Latinus' printed at Vicenza in 1491 by Leonardus Achates and Gulielmus de Pavia (Hain-Cop. 8451. B.M.C. VII. 1033. Pellechet 1314. Klebs 506. 10). With one exception, these illustrations and the text bear an extremely close resemblance to those of the printed book; though in all cases the text as given in the MS. corresponds with only the first few lines-the remainder is not found here. Thus in the entry for 'Portulaca' (fol. 1), which is No. CV in the printed book, the MS. text ends at the word 'decoctionis' which is in the 6th line of the text as printed. The correspondences between MS. and Printed text are as under: MS. Fol. 1 Portulaca. Printed Text. No. CV. 2 Genciana. Printed Text. No. LXVIII. 3 Nigella. Printed Text. No. XCVII. 4 Herbae Erusti. Printed Text. See below 5 Esula minor. Printed Text. No. LI. 6 Nenufar. Printed Text. No. XCVIII. 7 Spicanardi. Printed Text. No. CXLI. 8 Scolopendria. Printed Text. No. CXXXVIII. 9 Cucumer. Printed Text. No. XLVI. 10 Celidonia. Printed Text. No. XLIV. 11 Cuscuta. Printed Text. No. XLII. 12 Genesta. Printed Text. No. LXIX. 13Pastinaca silvestris. Printed Text. No. CXII. 14 Edera arborea. Printed Text. No. LX. 15 Lilium. Printed Text. No. LXXVII. 16 Canopus. Printed Text. No. XLVIII. 17 Fragaria. Printed Text. No. LXIII. 18 Cepe. Printed Text. No. XL. 19 Squinantia. Printed Text. No. CXXVI. 20 Serpentaria. Printed Text. No. CXXVII. 21 Papaver. Printed Text. No. CX. 22 Squilla. Printed Text. No. CXXXIV. 23 Rasanus. Printed Text. No. CXV. 24 Laureola. Printed Text. No. LXXXIII. 25 Rosa. Printed Text. No. CXIV. 26 Scicados citrinum. Printed Text. No. CXXIX. 27 Spica celtica. Printed Text. No. CXLII. Of the above Nos. 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 20 have additions in red ink by Reuchlin, which are also found in the continuation of the printed text. Nos. 8, 18, 19 have similar MS. additions, which are not found in the printed text. No. 4, which also has an added note by Reuchlin, is not found, either as to illustration or text, in the printed version.
  • Reuchlin's script as found in his MS. is firm and bold - the writing of a man in the prime of life. He is known to have received his Doctorate in Law in 1481, and in 1486 to have become friendly with the Italian humanist Hermolaus Barbarus [1454-1493] at Frankfort. The latter was interested in medical botany, and wrote not only on Pliny and Pomponius Mela, but also was the author of a posthumously published work 'Corollarii in Dioscoridem libri quinque', 1516.
  • Purchased 1934.

Bibliographie

  • Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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