Accession number:
MS M.873
Title:
Compendium Salernitanum
Created:
Northern Italy, possibly Venice, 1350-1375.
Binding:
French 18th-century red velvet, repaired by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Description:
94 leaves (2 or more drawings to a page), bound : vellum, ill. ; 300 x 200 mm
Provenance:
In France in 1641 (inscription on fol. 94v: Le dict livre ma este donné par monsieur de bonpar medecin du roy en l'annee 1641; owned by Marcellin-Hercule Bompart, Louis XIII's physician and passed on to Vallot, first physician to Louis XIV; owned in 1954 by Emil Starkenstein, professor of pharmacology and pharmagnosis at the German University in Prague (his ex-libris on front pastedown); purchased from Starkenstein's library through Gottschalk (Biblion) of Garden City with the assistance of the Fellows and with special assistance of William S. Glazier, in 1955.
Notes:
Ms. herbal/encyclopedia; written and illustrated in northern Italy, perhaps Venice, ca. 1350-1375.
Decoration: 488 colored drawings representing medicinal plants, minerals and how they are mined, animals of many different species. Drawings attributed to Venice by Lilian Armstrong.
Script:
textura, cursive
Language:
Latin, French, Italian
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