(Q5306)
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Giovanni, da Nola, approximately 1488-1558
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Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
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Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
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[1530?]
16. century
1530Gregorian
1530Gregorian
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Extent: 29 leaves : paper ; 147 x 110 (110 x 80) mm bound to 151 x 113 mm
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Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand; scribe was named Bernardinus (p. 61).
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Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
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Title and attribution supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch); p. 61 attributes it to Johannes de Nola. This might be the 16th-century writer Giovanni Andrea Nola.
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Collation: Paper, 29; 1³⁰(-1); 3-40, 43-62; contemporary pagination in ink, upper right recto.
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Ms. codex.
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Decoration: Red used for headings.
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Binding: bound in a parchment manuscript fragment of an unnoted hymnal, German, mid 13th century (includes St. Elizabeth of Hungary, canonized in 1235). Binding work appears to be contemporary with the manuscripts.
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Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1530 (Zacour-Hirsch).
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Badly stained in upper inner corner of each page; this stain has caused some text on each page to become faded or obliterated. Possible mildew damage on upper inner edge of parchment cover. Dealer's description suggests this might be due to a chemical spilled on the manuscript by an alchemist.
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Short dealer's description in Italian on file in the Library; probably from Olschki catalogue, 9/26/1957.
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Leo S. Olschki (Florence): bookseller's bookplate inner front cover, inv. no. 47428, appears in catalog 54 (26 Sept. 1957), no. 5; old shelf number (16) on front cover.
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Acquired, 1957.
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28 August 2023
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28 August 2023
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