St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 760, Tail – Iatromathematical housebook from the Southern German/Swiss region
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Manuscript Summary:This manuscript, illustrated with numerous colored pen drawings, originated in a secular environment in Southern Germany or in Switzerland around the middle of the 15th century. It describes the signs of the zodiac, the planets, the four temperaments, and the four seasons regarding their influence on human health. This is followed by dietary guidelines primarily regarding bloodletting, but also regarding eating, drinking, sleeping, waking, resting and moving, as well as, in concrete terms, regarding bathing (illustration p. 101) or defecating (illustration p. 120). Most likely an amateur doctor with an interest in astronomy, from the Southern region of Germany, wrote the original text around 1400 and assembled it into a compendium. Later the text was repeatedly supplemented and modified. The last part (from p. 128 on) contains a prose and a poem version of the so-called letter from Pseudo-Aristotle to Alexander the Great, in which the Greek universal scholar advises the king on maintaining good health.(smu)
Standard description: Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 251.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 760
Paper · 154 pp. · 21 × 15.5 cm · Southern Germany/Switzerland · around 1450
Iatromathematical housebook from the Southern German/Swiss region
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 760, Tail – Iatromathematical housebook from the Southern German/Swiss region (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg/0760)
Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 251.
Manuscript title: Cod. Sang. 760
Date of origin: s. XV
Support: Papier
Extent:
15 Seiten
Format: 4°
Writing and hands:
in sauberer Schrift
Decoration:
mit vielen illumin. Federzeichnungen.
Contents:
1).
S. 1-126:
Medizinischer Kalender in deutscher Sprache oder Abhandlung von Himmelszeichen, Temperament, Aderlass u. s. w. mit Bildern.
2).
S. 128-139:
mit voranstehender Abbildung in Blattgrösse:
>'Das ist Aristotoles brief … den er dem Küng allexander schiket … wie er sich vor siechtum hüten solt.'<
Anfang:
'Allexander so du des morgens fru auffstest' etc. …–…
Ende:
'und lebt auch lang.'
3).
S. 140-154:'Der edel Küng allexander An manhait der ander' etc. …–…
bis:
'Das er an aller deiner tat Dein pflege mit seines segens rat Amen.'
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