Sidrach

Date:
Late 15th Century
Reference:
MS.750
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Sidrach. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Libro della fontana delle scienze.

Written in a rounded script, in double columns of 33 lines to a column. Capitals in alternate red and blue: headings in red.

Fol. 1 (red) Incomincia i libro chiamato si/drach sommo filosafo [sic] ilquale/e apellato [sic] libro della fontana/delle iscientie imprimail/prolagho [sic].//LApotenzia di/idio padre o/nipotente e/ne istata de/1 comincia/mento del/mondo... 2v, col. 2 ...salvamento della anima e/del corpo Amen.//(red) Finito il prolago [sic] di detto libro In/comincia largomento di detto libro. 11 (red) Comincia il soverano libro di/sidrach sommo filosafo [sic] e chom/inciono li capitoli di questo libro/delquale lo re botus si doman/de e richiese il savio filosafo [sic] si/drach primamente lo richiese/e disse se iddio era istato era istato se/npre [sic] e sara sidrach risponde/Iddio none chomincia/mento... 49v, col. 2 ...si diciano noi chel f/uocho e la piu sana cosa che sia.//(red) finito i libro di sidrac filosafo [sic]/soverano. 50, col. 1 (red) Che cosa e il mondo.//Quello sauio filoksafo [sic] iscrisse che il mondo era uno cier/chio... 50v, col. 2 fede sie maravigliosa ciertezza/di cosa non saputa.

The watermark on the paper-a crowned column-is Briquet No. 4412, assigned to Siena 1465.

Publication/Creation

Late 15th Century

Physical description

1 volume 50 ll. folio. 28 1/2 x 20 cm. Modern vellum binding.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1910.

Related material

For the 'Romance' of Sidrach, see Sarton Introduction to the history of Science, Vol. II, Part II, pp. 589-591, wherein he calls it 'perhaps the most puerile encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages'. It was first printed in Paris in 1486, and a Dutch version was published at Leyden in 1495.

Location of duplicates

This material has been digitised and can be freely accessed online through Wellcome Collection catalogue.

Finding aids

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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  • 24850