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Title
Thesaurus pauperum... [etc.]
Created
France ; between 1250 and 1399.
Physical Description
1 item (iv + 149 + iv leaves) : parchment ; 200 mm x 140 mm
Language
Latin; French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Notes
Title assigned by cataloger.
Script: gothic textualis.
Decoration: multi-line decorated initials in red and blue link with contrasting penwork. Rubrication.
Layout: single column of 27 lines.
Binding: 15th-century beige deer skin over paperboards. Spinal label with title: Thesaurum / pauperum.
In Latin and Middle French.
Provenance
Purchased in 1958 from Lathrop C. Harper Inc. as a gift to Yale Med from the Library Associates.
Summary
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing Pope John XXI's Thesaurus pauperum (ff. 1-84v). Also contains "Ci commence phisinomie qui ensegne" (in French; ff. 85v-87), De junipero et fructu suo (ff. 87v-88), "Hic sunt virtutes et efficatie aque" (ff. 88v-90), Liber kiranidarum de ix herbis ix avibus ix lapidibus ix piscibus (ff. 91-143v), De xiii herbarum, x animalibus, viii herbarum, vii planetas (attributed to Albertus Magnus, ff. 144-149). Includes, in a different hand, an index (front flyleaves) and a few medical recipes (back flyleaves).
Variant and related titles
Thesaurus pauperum; Physionomia, in French; De junipero et fructu suo [and three additional tracts]
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Faye, C. and Bond, W. Supplement to the Census, 1962, page 61, 39
Subjects
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France.
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