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De mundo
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Title
De mundo.
Created
Nuremberg ; 1494.
Physical Description
1 item (ii + 19 + vi leaves) : paper ; 220 mm x 160 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Title assigned by cataloger.
Script: humanist minuscule.
Layout: 1 column of around 30 lines.
Binding: modern cloth binding over pasteboard.
Signed and dated by Münzer on leaf 17r: Hic nobilissimus libellus aristotilis de mundo scriptus est manibus Magistri Hieronimi Monetarii de feltkirchen medicina doctoris etc., uicesima quarta Februarii anno salutis 1494 Nuremberge. Satis correctus est magnoque labore ex incorrecto uolumine in lucem prodiit.
Article, written by Walter Kurt Fränkel with caption title: "Dr. Hieronymus Münzer, 1440-1508 Stadtarztt vun Nürmberg, Humanist, Geograph uns Schwiegervater Holzschuhers", in envelope shelved with the manuscript.
In Latin.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Alexander Albert Olivier Anton, Prince Dietrichstein (1899-1964). For sale by Gilhofer & Ranscburg, booksellers in Luzern, 25 June 1934, lot 37. Purchased by Dr. Harvey Cushing from Gilhofer & Ranschburg, booksellers in Luzern (Catalogue 257 (1936), no. 9) in 1936. His bequest to Yale Medical School Library.booksellers in Luzern, 25 June 1934, lot 37. Purchased by Dr. Harvey Cushing from Gilhofer & Ranschburg, booksellers in Luzern (Catalogue 257 (1936), no. 9) in 1936. His bequest to Yale Medical School Library.
Summary
Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of Hieronymus Münzer, containing pseudo-Aristotle's De mundo, sometimes attributed to Nicolaus of Damascus. (A text translated from Arabic by Apuleius.) Includes copious marginal notes by Hieronymus Münzer.
Variant and related titles
De mundo / pseudo-Aristotle [probably by Nicolaus Damascenus] ; translated into Latin by Apuleius Madaurensis ; written in ink on paper by Hieronymus Münzer at Nuremberg in 1494
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Faye & Bond, Supplement to the Census, 1962, page 56, 14
The Harvey Cushing Collection of Books and Manuscripts, 1943, manuscript 4
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Annotations - 13th century.
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