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De regimine mensium : manuscript, [12--]

Title
De regimine mensium : manuscript, [12--]

Alternative Title: Regimen sanitatis
Place of Origin
Germany
Date
12uu
Language
Latin
Description
Extent: 3 leaves, bound : vellum ; 20 cm.
print
Subjects
Health--Early works to 1800
Abstract
A Latin poem in Leonine hexameters giving prescriptions for health for each month of the year.
Genre
Manuscripts, Medieval-Germany-1200-1250.
Manuscripts, Medieval-Germany-1250-1300.
Rules (layout features)
Pricking (parchment marking)
Early works to 1800
Notes
Written probably in Germany in a minuscule semi-gothic hand with many abbreviations, in black ink with red rubrics. Initials and rubrics are in red. For each month there is a roundel containing a zodiacal sign, drawn in pen and ink and other colors, mostly red and blue.
January begins "Escas per janum calidas est sumere sanum". Cf. Walther, Alphabetisches Verzeichnis der Versanfänge mittellateinischer Dichtungen, no. 5538. It is related to Walther no. 8953 which is published in S. Rienzi, Collectio Salernitana (Naples 1859), i. 4-6.
Bound in modern blue morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.
MS Typ 590. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Some pages also available in an electronic version.
Microfilm available in the Houghton Reading Room (reel 57 no. 5).
Series
Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Repository
Houghton Library, Harvard University

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