Medical miscellany (DS125) (Q556)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9952666523503681, Oversize LJS 24, https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9952666523503681)
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Medical miscellany (DS125)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9952666523503681, Oversize LJS 24, https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9952666523503681)

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    23 December 2022
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    Medical miscellany
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    Early works to 1800
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    Fever--Early works to 1800
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    Medicine--Early works to 1800
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    Dominicans--In art
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    between 1225 and 1275
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    Extent: 149 leaves : parchment ; 278 x 196 (188 x 125-127) mm bound to 293 x 211 mm
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    Ms. codex.
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    Title supplied by cataloger.
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    Collation: Parchment, ii (18th-century paper) + 149 + ii (18th-century paper); 114(-1) 22 310 4-712 812(-1) 912(-2) 10-1312 1410(-3); gatherings 3, 6, and 12 have horizontal catchwords (f. 25v, 61v, 130v); gatherings 3, 4, and 8 have letters on the rectos in the first half of each gathering (starting f. 16r, 26r, 75r); gathering 4 is signed II (f. 37v). Link to collation model at end of record.
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    Layout: Written in 2 columns of 44-47 lines; frame-ruled in faint ink with double vertical bounding lines.
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    Script: Written in Gothic script.
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    Decoration: 1 8-line miniature of a Dominican doctor teaching clerics (f. 1r); 11 inhabited initials (Dominican doctor taking a pulse, f. 6r; Dominican doctor possibly with an abstract representation of Gilles de Corbeil's four essential parts of the body (Mountford), f. 7v; laymen at a feast, f. 16r; Dominican doctor, servant, and patient, f. 65r; Dominican doctor teaching laymen, f. 91r...
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    Binding: Early 18th-century mottled calf, gilt with Dysart arms on covers and spine label Theorica practica.
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    Origin: Written in Paris in the mid-13th century.
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    Formerly owned by Lionel Tollemache, Earl of Dysart (Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, arms on covers; Dysart armorial stamp, f. 15v) in the 18th century and by his descendants through Bentley Lyonel John Tollemache (third Baron Tollemache).
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    Sold privately to the Robinson Brothers after the death of Baron Tollemache in 1955 and held in the private library of Philip Robinson.
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    Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 6 Dec. 1993, lot 53.
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    Appears in Jörn Günther Antiquariat's Mittelalterliche Handschriften und Miniaturen (1995), no. 4.
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    Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd., cat. 16 (1995), no. 46, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
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    Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
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    28 April 2025
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