Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.750

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  • Other label of the document :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.750
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.750
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.750
    • Wellcome Library, MS.750
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
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  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 50 leaves folio. 28 1/2 x 20 cm. Modern vellum binding.

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Data Source: Wellcome Collection - Online Collections

  • Libro della fontana delle scienze.

    Written in a rounded script, in double columns of 33 lines to a column. Capitals in alternate red and blue: headings in red.

    Fol. 1 (red) Incomincia i libro chiamato si/drach sommo filosafo [sic] ilquale/e apellato [sic] libro della fontana/delle iscientie imprimail/prolagho [sic].//LApotenzia di/idio padre o/nipotente e/ne istata de/1 comincia/mento del/mondo... 2v, col. 2 ...salvamento della anima e/del corpo Amen.//(red) Finito il prolago [sic] di detto libro In/comincia largomento di detto libro. 11 (red) Comincia il soverano libro di/sidrach sommo filosafo [sic] e chom/inciono li capitoli di questo libro/delquale lo re botus si doman/de e richiese il savio filosafo [sic] si/drach primamente lo richiese/e disse se iddio era istato era istato se/npre [sic] e sara sidrach risponde/Iddio none chomincia/mento... 49v, col. 2 ...si diciano noi chel f/uocho e la piu sana cosa che sia.//(red) finito i libro di sidrac filosafo [sic]/soverano. 50, col. 1 (red) Che cosa e il mondo.//Quello sauio filoksafo [sic] iscrisse che il mondo era uno cier/chio... 50v, col. 2 fede sie maravigliosa ciertezza/di cosa non saputa.

    The watermark on the paper-a crowned column-is Briquet No. 4412, assigned to Siena 1465.

  • For the 'Romance' of Sidrach, see Sarton Introduction to the history of Science, Vol. II, Part II, pp. 589-591, wherein he calls it 'perhaps the most puerile encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages'. It was first printed in Paris in 1486, and a Dutch version was published at Leyden in 1495.
  • Purchased 1910.

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  • Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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