Rasis
MS. Lyell empt. 1
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Rasis
Shelfmark
MS. Lyell empt. 1
Place of origin
Italian (?)
Date
13th century, early
Language
German
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Rather poor quality parchment
Physical extent
44 leaves (fol. 44 is a detached pastedown),
Hands
Written in a current text hand probably in Italy, to judge from the parchment, in the early 13th cent.
Binding
Binding of c. 1500 in wooden boards covered with rough white leather. Title written on the front cover in a contemporary hand.
Provenance
Formerly no. 355 in the library of the abbey of Admont, Austria (paper label on spine, and 19th-cent. description in German pasted inside front cover). Identifiable in the 1376 catalogue: Item divisiones egritudinum incipit Ventilatus, and in the 1380 catalogue: Item divisiones egritudinum Abubet incipit Ventilatum fuit (ed. G. Moser-Mersky, Mittelalt. Bibl.kat. Oesterreichs ui, 1961, pp. 34 1. i, 59 1. 26).
Sold by Admont in or after 1934 to L. and A. Brecher of Brünn (Moser-Mersky, op. cit., p. 9).
Bought by Lyell in February 1941 from Davis and Orioli: see their Cat. 93, no. 177.
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