Tractatus de morbis feminarum et infantium. Tractatus de lue venerea

Alternate Title:

Tractatus de morbis feminarum et infantium; Tractatus de lue venerea; De morbis feminarum et infantium

Date:

1675

Description:

Two 17th-century medical treatises. The first is divided into two books, on diseases of women (hysteria and problems of menstruation, pregnancy, birth, and nursing) and diseases of children. The second treatise is on venereal disease, specifically syphilis (morbus gallicus). The compiler cites the 16th-century German physician Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg and the 17th-century Dutch physician Franciscus Silvius. Each disease is described in sections under the headings Causae, Differentiae, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Curatio. Additional remedies for venereal disease are written on the lower pastedown.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Adam Weinberger (New York), 2024.

Subject:

Medicine -- Early works to 1800; Women -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800; Children -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800; Sexually transmitted diseases -- Early works to 1800

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); treatises; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

81 leaves : paper; 210 x 155 (155 x 85) mm bound to 215 x 1600 mm + 1 note

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Latin.; Title from caption title (f. 1r).; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-48r: De morbis feminarum -- 2. f.48v-62v: De morbis puerorum -- 3. f.63r-81v: Tractatus de lue venerea.; Collation: Paper, 81; 1⁸⁻¹(-1) 2⁶ 3-6⁸ 7⁴ 8⁸ 9⁴ 10⁸ 11⁸⁻¹(-3) 12⁶⁻¹(-6); [1-81], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.; Layout: Written in 26 long lines; quarto format.; Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand, with book and chapter headings in square capitals.; Decoration: Penwork decoration on initial letters in manuscript title (f. 1r) and titles for internal book divisions (f. 48v, 63r).; Binding: Early limp vellum, spine title De morbis feminarum et infantium in ink.; Origin: Probably written in Italy (Adam Weinberger), not before 1675 (based on date of related manuscript Ms. Codex 2190).; This manuscript matches Ms. Codex 2190 (Therapeuticen specialis), University of Pennsylvania, in hand, page layout, and binding, but is a slightly different size.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 2191