Liber dispensationum

Name:

Sinibaldi, Giacomo, 1630-1704; Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1693

Description:

Contains descriptions of 84 pharmaceutical prescriptions. Additions in different contemporary or near-contemporary hands include: "oleum de Mattioli," "electuarium diatartari," "laudan liquido," "polipodia" stomatica," "syrupus Terebinti Malpichi," and others. This manuscript has the appearance of an official pharmacopaea of a hospital, possibly Sancta Sanctorum in S. Giovanni al Laterano in Rome (Zacour-Hirsch). Includes notations by physicians dating from 1693 to 1768, among them: Johannes Tirillius (or Triellius; 1693, f. 9r); Lucas Thomasinus (1740, f. 9r); Vinc. Ant. Gattucius (1710, f. 10v); Jacobus Sinibaldus (i.e., Giacomo Sinibaldi; 1695, f. 11v); Hieronymus Caruccius (1753, f. 14v); Ant. Gabrielli (1703, f. 16v); Paulus Manfredus; and many others. Most signatures appear after the note, "Vidi et approbavi."

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Provenance: V. Berrelli, 18th century (signature, inside upper cover); illegible ex libris stamp, inside upper cover; Bernard M. Rosenthal Catalogue XV, p. 13 (no. 31) (description clipped from Catalogue on file in the Library).; Acquired, 1967.

Subject:

Chemistry -- History; Chemistry; History; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Medicine -- History; Medicine; Pharmacology -- Early works to 1800; Pharmacology

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Prescriptions; Recipes; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

91 leaves : paper, color illustrations

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 1r).; Incipit and explicit (f. 2r) Theriaca Democrate ex Galeni ... (f. 91r) vel sii acetosi q. s. f massa.; No signatures. Some catchwords, lower right corner of some versos (not necessarily at end of quire).; Collation:; Collation: Paper, 91; 1⁴, 2⁴(+2), 3⁴, 4⁸, 5-6⁴, 7⁴(+2) , 8⁴, 9², 10⁴, 11⁸, 12⁴(+2), 13⁶, 14⁶[+2], 15², 16²(+2), 17², 18⁶(+2), 19²; [1-91]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Irregular contemporary foliation and pagination in ink, upper outer corners. References in this record are to modern foliation.; Script: Written in a formal book script, with additions and comments in a cursive script.; Decoration: Elaborate pen-and-ink title page, with red and green highlighting (f. 1r). The folio between f. 27-28 lacks the ink border that all the other folios have.; Watermark: Initial E.; Binding: 17th-century Italian limp parchment over pasteboard. Cover badly deteriorated; split at edges, peeling away from pasteboard; pulling away from book block at spine; large piece missing from bottom of lower cover. There is a great deal of writing and doodling on the outside covers. Stains of various types; some oxidation of ink.; Origin: Written in Italy, 1693 (title page, f. 1r).; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 132