Liber mirabilium

University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

100 leaves : parchment ; 204 x 143 (146 x 88) mm bound to 210 x 155 mm; Binding: Modern parchment.; Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 100 + i (modern paper); 1² 2⁶ 3-7¹⁶ 8¹²; every tenth leaf foliated in pencil, lower right recto. Horizontal catchwords with decorative dots, lower center of last verso in gatherings 3-7 (f. 24v, 40v, 56v, 72v, 88v). Link to collation model at end of record.; Decoration: Opening page of text illuminated with a 10-line historiated initial enclosing a picture of Hermes Trismegistus on gold ground and a three-quarters border of acanthus leaves (border at top slightly trimmed) including the Sandei arms (blue lion rampant) at the bottom of the page (f. 9r); 2 historiated initials in red with blue penwork and the blue lion of the Sandei arms (f. 6r, 39r); 5- and 6-line initials in red with blue penwork or blue with red penwork at the beginning of some component works (f. 13r, 39r, 61v, 96r); 2-line to 5-line initials (a single 7-line initial, f. 87v) in red with blue penwork (faded purple penwork in index) or blue with red penwork throughout; 1-line initials alternating between red and blue and paragraph marks alternating between red and blue throughout. Occasional manicules, mostly by a single reader (f. 13v, 15v, 17v, 18r, 27v, 30v, 31r, 48r; f. 75v, 83v by additional readers).; Latin.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Layout: Written in 32-33 long lines; frame-ruled in lead, vertical bounding lines.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in Piran (then under the control of the Republic of Venice, in modern Slovenia), between 1452 (f. 1r) and 1455 (f. 98v). The date 1451 also appears in the manuscript (f. 99v).; Related Work: Alcalá, Pedro de. Liber de aquis.; Related Work: Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295. De virtutibus aquae vitae. Selections.; Related Work: Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311. Epistolae.; Related Work: Hermes, Trismegistus, Trismegistus. De transmutatione metallorum.; Script: Written in semi-cursive humanistic script by multiple hands, including that of Jeronimus de Sandei of Piran (f. 98v).; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-8v: Tabula huius libri ad reperiendum capitula.; Table of contents: 2. f.9r-12v: Ars sive doctrina sapientissimi philosofi et christiani catholici de transmutacione metallorum [?] corporum et aliarum rerum / [Hermes Trismegistus (Thorndike-Kibre 1112/12)]; Table of contents: 3. f.13r-39r: [Selections from De virtutibus aquae vitae / Taddeo Alderotti (Thorndike-Kibre 121/11)]; Table of contents: 4. f.39r-46r: [Epistola de sanguine / Arnaldus de Villanova (Thorndike-Kibre 1310/7)]; Table of contents: 5. f.46r-51r: [Medical recipes]; Table of contents: 6. f.51r-61v: [Liber de aquis / Petrus Hispanus (Thorndike-Kibre 1328/9)]; Table of contents: 7. f.61v-63r: [Epistola / Magistri Arnoldi de villa nova ad Magistrum Jacobum de Tolleto]; Table of contents: 8. f.63r-95v: [Household preparations]; Table of contents: 9. f.96r-100r: Vita remedia et ordo servandus tempore pestilentie.; Title from closing rubric (f. 98v).