MS.187

[p]The manuscript consists of one work and is a book of notes relating to the nature and medical properties of plants, animals, the winds, seasons, fruits, etc., mostly in respect of diet. The text-which is in the form of short entries of four or five lines-is written in black and red, by a neat humanistic hand. It was produced in Verona.[/p] [p]Two pagination schemes are present which include an earlier pagination created by a sixteenth century hand-who also created the index-and a later foliation. The catalogue description is based on the foliation.[/p] [p] ff. 1v-2r The work begins with a colophon[/p] [p]f. 1v Mcccclxxiiii Codex Ludouici de Cendratis ciuis Veronensis: qui nullum aliud nouit imperium: nisi Serenissimum uenetorum Dominium cum turba natorum numero trigintaduorum ex unico Matrimonio…. f. 2r Opus naturae rerum compendiosum et eruditum: nec minus uarium quam ipsa natura. [p]The name 'Cendratis' seems to have been written over another name which has been erased (see f. 1v). Above the line a later hand has written 'Prius fuerat mei Antonii de ...' The rest has been rubbed out.[/p] [p]1. ff. 3r-102r Medical notes[/p] [p]f. 3r [i]Ficus[/i] Nature calide et humide in 1° ... f. 102r [i]Auicule et turdi[/i] Nature c[alide] et sicce in 2° ... Remotio nocumenti cum oleo amygdalorum. [/p] [p]ff. 103r-106v Index[/p] [p]f. 103r Tabula rerum omnium que/[in] hoc uolumine continentur…. f. 106v Finis tabule in qua omnia capita continentur que tractantur in hoc libro.[/p]

1 l. + 201 pp. + 4 ll. 8vo. 191/2 x 131/2 cm. On vellum: the added four leaves at the end are paper. Light blue morocco gilt binding by Charles Lewis [1786-1836].; leaf dimensions: width cm, length cm; written dimensions: width cm, length cm

Purchased at Sotheby's 24/11/1908, Lot 380.

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