Petrus de Abano (1250-1316)

Date:
Late 15th Century
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MS.614
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Petrus de Abano (1250-1316). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Written in a neat humanistic hand, 18 lines to page. Illuminated initial R on first leaf in gold and colours, with marginal decoration: other initials in alternate brown and blue, headings in red: the Index is wholly written in red. Fol. 1 (red) Tractatus De uenenis a magistro Pe/tro de Abbano editus.//[R]Euerendissimo in chri/sto patri et domino. N.//diunia prouidentia summo/pontifici... 50, line 16 ... et ideo mater/omnium medicinarum a medicis est/appellata. 50v (red) Tabula capitulorum.//De prologo 1. 53 Questio utrum tiriaca etc. 83. The pagination has been cut out in binding. Below the text on fol. 1 are the emblazoned arms, within a gold circle and wreath, of an unidentified cardinal. The last leaf is blank except for four lines of Latin verse, written in an 18th century. hand.

Publication/Creation

Late 15th Century

Physical description

1 volume 54[58]. 4to. 21 1/2 x 14 1/2 cm. On vellum: 18th century quarter calf binding. Fol. 49 [Blank ?] and ff. 55-57 [blanks ?] have been cut out.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1930.

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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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