(Q49601)
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New York Academy of Medicine
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Fritz Finkenstaedt
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Thirteenth/fourteenth century
13. century
14. century
1200Gregorian
1400Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 48 (i.e. 45 + ff. 18 bis, 22 bis, 23 bis); parchment; 107 x 76
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Layout: Long lines, ruled in dry point: gathering 1 with 28 lines, gatherings 2 and 3 with 24 lines; gathering 4 with 25 lines.
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Script: Gothic
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Decoration: Red initials. Plant names at the beginning of each section are rubricated. Catchwords decorated with dots and lines and placed in the center of the lower margin.
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Binding: Bound in a fragment from a manuscript, Italy, s. XI, containing Hrabanus Maurus, De rerum naturis, Book 4, on the back cover (textually the earlier piece), PL 111:0085D-0087B; on the front cover (textually the second piece), PL 111:0087B-0088A. Ruled in dry point; copied in caroline minuscule; initials touched in red.
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Provenance: Purchased by the New York Academy of Medicine in 1932 from the German antiquarian bookseller, Fritz Finkenstaedt (1897-1932).
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1-4 gatherings each of 12 leaves; catchwords on ff. 12v, 22 bis verso; foliated 1-18, 18a, 19-22, 22a, 23, 23a, 24-45.
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See the editio princeps: Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum carmen (Naples: Arnaldus de Bruxella, 1477); ISTC im00001000, with digitized copy from Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
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On additions to the text, see Ulrike Jansen, “Spuria Macri”: Ein Anhang an das mittellateinische Lehrgedicht “Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum”: Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013); this manuscript not listed. NYAM MS 11 includes an interpolated passage on the stone ‘emanthites’.
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Duplicate text of chapter 46; here incomplete. Folio 44v faded along the left margin, obscuring the text.
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26 August 2024
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26 August 2024
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