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Subject(s)

• Medicine, Medieval [Browse]
• Medicine—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—France [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Author

• John XXI, Pope, -1277 [Browse]
• Corradini Bozzi, M. S. (Maria Sofia) [Browse]

Bookseller

• Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 80. [Browse]

Notes

• Title from printed catalog.
• Script: Textualis rotunda by three different scribes.
• Decoration: Fol. 1r has a historiated border on the left and bottom margins of the text area. The border depicts a seated teacher with students below; a physician holding up a urinal; a standing figure with a sack; a seated figure; a standing figure, possibly with a sack; a man in a red robe showing a written sheet to a kneeling figure; and three figures in conversation.

Binding note

England, early 20th century. Bound by W. H. Smith & Son, London.

Language note

Latin and French.

Contents

• 1.1-32r: “In nomine sancte et indiuidue trinitatis que omnia creauit et que singula dotauit uirtutibus propriis a qua omnis sapientia data est sapientibus et scientia scientibus ...” Explicit: “... in aqua comedatur siue bibatur omnia interiora consolidat.”
• 2.32v-36v: “De febre effimera rubrica. Contra febrem effimeram in principio siripus de rosis scandalis et floribus et uenufar ...” Explicit: “Quid sit se. Queritur quid sit se, unde dicatur et quomodo generetur et quare alia continue alia interpolate.”
• 3.37r-45v, 50r-59v, 67v-72r: “In nomine patri et fili et spiritu Amen. A quest libre es bons per auer sanitat del cors ad home o a femena que aia dolor el uentre pren lo sucre e lanis ...” Explicit: “... la lomatin el uespre e garra.”
• 4.45v-50r, 59v-67v [fol. 59v]: “Ypocras. In nomine domini nostri Jesu Christi Amen. So es lo libre que ipocras trames a cesar e dis li ara fai gardar a quest livre car mot es proficables sapchas que el es aitals con tu las demandat per ta salut...” Explicit: [fol. 50v] “... la gallina abtot et espurgara uos mot ben lo uenire.”
• 5. 72r-v: "Sequitur Recepta aque ad purgandum maculas sine tacas lane rauparum.”

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Provenance

Garrett Ms. 80 is a composite volume comprised of two separate manuscripts of southern French origin, late 13th to early 14th century, bound together at least since the early 20th century. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript on 20 August 1927 from the New York antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930). Garrett donated the manuscript to the Princeton University Library in 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 163-165.

Cite as

Garrett MS. 80, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1097212519

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