[Medical and astronomical miscellany]

University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

36 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 294 x 210 (205 x 132-142) mm bound to 300 x 220 mm; Binding: Contemporary parchment, restored.; Decoration: 36 miniatures in ink with colored washes, 8 to 30 lines in height, including calendar miniatures of the labors of the months (f. 2r-7v), astrological images (f. 12r-21v), and medical illustrations (f. 23v, 26v-28r); 13 circular diagrams (f. 1r-1v, 9r-11v), some with color; 1 7-line initial in red ink with flourishing in green (f. 12r); rubrics and paragraph marks in red, initials touched with red.; Foliation: Paper, i (later paper) + 36 + i (later paper); [1-36]; 1¹²(-12) 2-3¹² 4²(-2); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Latin and German (lower Alemannic with middle German idioms).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Layout: Written in 36-42 long lines (f. 2r-23v, 26v-28r) or lines in 2 columns (f. 24r-26r, 28v-36v); frame-ruled in faint ink.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in southwestern Germany, ca. 1446.; Script: Written in bâtarde script.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-1v: [Circular diagrams of the celestial spheres and the directions]; Table of contents: 10. f.30r-32r: De proprietatibus vini / [elsewhere attributed to Albertus Magnus]; Table of contents: 11. f.32v-36v: Libellus magnus atque preciosus ... sigillorum / Cheel [Zaël]; Table of contents: 2. f.2r-7v: [Calendar]; Table of contents: 3. f.8r-11v: [Astrological and astronomical tables and diagrams]; Table of contents: 4. f.12r-22v: [Treatise in German on favorable and unfavorable days for various activities]; Table of contents: 5. f.23r-25r: De urina.; Table of contents: 6. f.25v-26r: [Treatise in German on bloodletting]; Table of contents: 7. f.26v-28r: In dem Lentzen.; Table of contents: 8. f.28v: Dies periculosi.; Table of contents: 9. f.29r-29v: [Latin treatise on veins]; Title supplied by cataloger.; Watermark: Similar to Briquet Tête de boeuf 14964 (1444) and 15054 (1441).