Rupescissa, Johannes de

De consideratione quintae essentiae. There is an unidentified pen-drawn coat of arms on the title page. First leaf (un-numbered) LIBER PAVPERIS/EVANGELICI. First leaf verso In nomine domini, incipit liber primus/de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum/transmutabilium pro pauperibus euangeli/cis factum et extractum de sententiis Raymundi per fatrem [sic] Eliam. Fol. 1 CANON PRIMVS/incipit.///Ait Salamon sapientiae, etc. Deus didit mihi horum scientiam/ueram... 37v (Lib. 1 and) ...et ad consolationem euangelicorum uirorum, et/ad honorem Ecclesiae Sanctae Dei.//Explicit liber primus//De consideratione quintae essentiae. 38 INCIPIT LIBER SECVNDVS//De generalibus remediis, et primo, qualiter im/pedimenta senium curantur//... 55 ...ideo hoc secretum in poenitentiae [sic] includatur. BENEDICTVS/DEVS QUI cuncta creauit. Amen. 55v [59] Tabulae.

Mid 17th Century

1 volume 1 l. + 58 ff. + 3 ll. (last 2 bl.). 4to. 20 1/2 x 15 1/2 cm. Original vellum covers. Name cut out of first fly-leaf.

Purchased at Sotheby's 28/1/1935, Lot 9.

For an acount of this work see Thorndike History of Magic and Experimental Science. Vol. III, pp. 355-365, 725-730. The version is this MS. contains 12 Canons only.

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).

From the Julius Kohn Library.