Accession number
MS M.873
Object title
Compendium Salernitanum (MS M.873).
Display Date
1350-1375.
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 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.
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
Resources
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